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Will Chinese buyers flee or flood US housing?

Turmoil in the Chinese stock market could have a quick and direct effect on U.S. housing. From newly built homes in Irvine, California, to Miami condos to Manhattan luxury towers, Chinese money has been flowing freely. The question now is, will trouble in the Chinese stock market translate into more or less cash coming into […]

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Canada’s hot housing markets clearly detached from reality

The average price of detached homes in Toronto and Vancouver has topped $1-million, and that should make you wonder. Detached from what, exactly? I’d say reality. From Canada to China and Greece, the financial and economic news this summer is worrying. Only if you have gold-plated financial security in your life should you jump into […]

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Switzerland:Immigration keeps Swiss housing market tight

Immigration of is continuing to put upward pressure on rental housing costs and residential property prices, particularly in the Lake Geneva region, a report from Bern says. The housing market in 2014 showed price and rents “stabilizing at a high level”, suggesting that it is at the top of a real estate cycle, the Federal […]

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UK-House prices 2015: growth slows, but still outpaces wages

House prices may be becoming a little “saner”, in the words of the Financial Times’s FastFT blog, but they’re still rising faster than average earnings – which means its getting harder to gain a foothold on the housing ladder. One of the main house price indicators published by Nationwide showed what City AM describes as a “surprise” […]

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KENYA REAL ESTATE MARKET REVIEW – FIRST QUARTER 2015

Taylor Scott International, conducted a property market survey in Nairobi for the first quarter 2015. The company collected a total number of 1792 surveys collected across a range of different venues. The majority of people who participated belong to the middle and upper class .The main objective of this survey was to identify property ownership […]

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Dubai one of worst performing global housing markets in Q1

Dubai was one of the worst-performing housing markets in the first quarter of 2015, according to new research. Knight Frank’s Global House Prices Index scored the city 53rd out of 56 locations monitored – one place lower than Greece but higher than China, Cyprus and Ukraine. Property prices in the emirate fell by 6.1 per […]

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Buying Off Plan: The Best Way to Invest in Real Estate?

During the last decades, markets around the world have been trying alternative ways to finance projects. In the construction industry, there have been several options in order to raise the capital required or to finance a project. Bank Loans, equity funds, are some of the most popular amongst others. The option though that most developers […]