Sellers of £1m-plus homes in London struggled the most to find buyers in January, survey finds Angela Monaghan Sales, new buyers and properties coming on to the market all fell in January. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex/Shutterstock Britain’s housing market got off to a subdued start in 2018, with sellers of £1m-plus homes in London finding it […]
On February the 22nd, we caught up with Africa Plantation Capital C.E.O and MD of AVAKON, Eng. Kosta Kioleoglou at his office in Nairobi and talked about Blue economy, his new venture Avakon and his future plans. In his interview with Erick Madisson, Eng. Kosta provides an overview of Avakon, its products and discusses future growth opportunities. He also […]
U.S. home sales unexpectedly fell for a second straight month in January. Existing home sales last month were weighed down by a persistent shortage of houses that is pushing up prices and keeping first-time buyers out of the market. U.S. home sales unexpectedly fell in January, leading to the biggest year-on-year decline in more than […]
London’s property market is now worth more than £1.5tn, an increase of 1.54pc in the past 12 months, according to fresh figures released on Thursday. Despite subdued house price growth in the capital over the past year, the market is more than twice as valuable as the combined worth of property assets in the next […]
Do what it may, the Hong Kong government seems powerless to rein in the territory’s booming property market. In January, the city was judged the world’s least affordable by US planning consultancy Demographia for the eighth successive year (the survey reviewed nine leading global housing markets including the US, China, Singapore, UK and Japan). The […]
The blue economy aims to move beyond business as usual and to consider economic development and ocean health as compatible propositions. Blue economy is ideal for a long-term strategy aimed at supporting sustainable and equitable economic growth through oceans-related sectors and activities such as tourism, fisheries, renewable energy, and maritime transport. The blue […]
The housing market in the U.S. has experienced a major uptick over the past two years. In 2016, existing home sales were the strongest they’ve been since 2006. More than a decade after the worst housing crisis in U.S. history, it seems we’re finally in a sustainable recovery period. As we enter 2018, the housing market […]
Sydney’s continuing home price slide kept capital city values largely flat last week, while auction activity has increased. The number of home auctions rose to 779 in the week to February 4 – almost triple the number of a week earlier – but that was down on the 881 in the same period a year […]
Analysis shows capital ‘unaffordable’ for all but most ‘equity-rich’ home buyers The number of homes changing hands in London has dropped by one-fifth in four years, while homebuying activity in the Midlands and the north of England has picked up the pace, underlining problems of affordability in the capital and changing patterns of regional housing […]
Home prices across Australia’s major cities fell further in January as weakness spread out from the Sydney market in the face of tighter rules on investment lending – a relief to regulators but a potential drag on consumer spending power. Property consultant CoreLogic said on Thursday its index of home prices for the combined capital […]
