The entry-level housing market may be on the upswing. The pace of new construction is one of many gauges of the state of the current housing market, along with home prices and the volume of sales. Moreover, the kinds of new homes under construction can tell us about the health of the housing recovery. The […]
Watching your neighbors bid on apartments or houses has become a national pastime in Sweden. In the last week of January, more 2.3 million browsers (in a nation of less than 10 million) clicked into the Hemnet home-auction website to keep tabs on the surging real estate market. As Sweden has sidestepped a bigger downturn […]
The real estate market does not operate in a vacuum. It is essential to have a view on how macroeconomic events affect the relevant real estate markets, both directly through trade and growth and indirectly through the financial markets. In the recent years, global real estate markets have been subjected to difficult times. They are […]
According to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors (GLVAR), the Las Vegas housing market is increasingly becoming more stable with Southern Nevada home prices remaining about 8 percent higher than they were a year ago.GLVAR reported the median price of homes sold in February 2015 was $205,000. That was up 2.5 percent from an […]
The strong Swiss franc and negative interest rates are driving spooked investors into property, according to a study by Swiss bank Credit Suisse. The difference in the rate of return between property investments and other forms of investment is at a record level as a result of the central bank’s negative interest rate policy, say […]
The ABA’s (Australilan Bank association) own definition of a residential property bubble surely indicates that Australia currently has one. There’s no getting around the fact that our real estate is abnormally expensive, writes Michael Janda. Contrary to the headlines, an Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) report released today doesn’t rule out a property bubble. Yes, the […]
From the first decision to invest in real estate to actually buying your first rental property, there is a lot of work to be done. This task may be daunting for the first-time investor. Owning property is a tough business and the field is peppered with land mines that can obliterate your returns. Here we’ll […]
Residential Trends While the recent strength of key urban residential markets has been supported by safe-haven and wealth flows the story is much broader. Cooling measures in key Asian centres continue to weigh on prices and transactional activity, most obviously in Hong Kong and Singapore but also in Beijing and Shanghai. Slightly over half our […]
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said the forecast was made by a net balance of 49% of respondents to its monthly survey. It said the increase was in part being driven by a decline in the number of houses coming onto the market. Rics added that supply continued to fall behind demand in […]
Germany may soon compete with London on the international real estate arena. Analysts at global real estate advisor Knight Frank, found that ultra-high-net-worth investors are increasingly interested in cities such as Berlin and Munich, which have seen a marked increase in activity in the last year. While continents such as the Americas have seen real […]
