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4 casualties of Vancouver’s real estate market

Young would-be homeowners are feeling the chill. For more than half a decade, these potential property-owners and family-makers have been frozen out of the city of Vancouver. But that freeze due to unaffordable housing doesn’t stop at Boundary Road. Homebuyers are struggling to find affordable housing on the North Shore, in Richmond, in Burnaby even as far as Langley. In my […]

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EU vote could slow housing market, says the Halifax

UK house prices are rising but uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum could slow the market, according to the Halifax. Property prices increased by 10.1% in the year to March compared with a year earlier, the lender found, making the average home worth £214,811. This annual growth accelerated from 9.7% seen in the previous two […]

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Singapore property losing some shine: UBS

***(From left) UBS Asset Management, Singapore head Michael Chin; Mr Mackie; and Mr Toh presenting the bank’s report yesterday.PHOTO: UBS***   No rush to exit but institutional investors’ focus may switch to cities in Australia, Japan Singapore is less likely to be on the radar of institutional real estate investors this year compared with other […]

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Why China’s Housing Market Refuses To Crash

As far back as 2005, international media sources have been projecting the collapse of what has been dubbed the Chinese property bubble. In 2008, the Economist declared that the “sizzle is off” China’s housing market and there were no improvement on the horizon. They then upped their ante in 2014, with an article entitled “End of the golden […]