The Greek housing market will recover at a slower pace than the Greek economy unless measures to boost demand and reduce oversupply are taken 2016 The Greek housing market collapsed from 2009 onwards, mainly driven by the drop of GDP per capita, the shrinkage of residential lending and the rise in taxation, dragging investments and […]
Australia’s ‘spring-selling’ real estate season is seeing a defiant return of Chinese buyers, undaunted by lending restrictions aimed at curbing their interest in the country’s sky-rocketing housing market. Financiers and estate agents say Asian investors have found new avenues to re-enter the market, including targeting cheaper homes and settling in cash. Others are turning to […]
Two months ago, Pierre E. Debbas, a partner at the boutique law firm Romer Debbas, was representing a couple buying a Manhattancondominium who wanted the option to back out of the deal if Donald J. Trump won the election. After Mr. Debbas explained that no seller would agree to such a contingency, they signed the […]
Cheap mortgages were never going to last forever, but few expected this. A spike in Treasury yields since last week’s election has had a rapid impact on home lending rates. The average 30-year fixed-mortgage rate was 4.02% on Tuesday, up nearly half a percentage point since the election, according to Mortgage News Daily. That marks the fastest […]
DONALD Trump’s victory as the President-elect of the United States will drive more foreign investors to the safehaven of the Australian property market. REA Group chief economist Nerida Conisbee said the uncertainty that came with the Trump victory meant people were likely to look to markets such as Australia. “Australia will be a beneficiary of […]
London property prices are set to fall next year as uncertainty about Britain’s exit from the European Union damps the U.K. housing market, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. London, and especially the priciest areas of the capital’s housing market, will be most affected, with prices dropping 5.6 percent in 2017, according […]
The “China property bubble” has come back to a headline-making theme but a quick look at the data uncovers a more nuanced picture, and how this time might be a bit different. Source: Analysis by Real Estate Foresight, based on data from SouFun-CREIS The chart above illustrates the cyclicality of the housing markets, with an […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A wave of restrictions imposed on housing markets in major Chinese cities last week have unnerved some buyers and developers, cutting the area of new homes sold in places such as Beijing and Shenzhen by more than half. More than 20 cities have imposed measures, including higher mortgage downpayments, to cool […]
House prices in Saudi Arabia will stutter over the coming year as investors and lenders wait out the effects of economic uncertainty and new government reforms on the kingdom’s residential property market. Analysts at the Jeddah asset management and investment firm Alkhabeer Capital said that in the near term rental demand would increase “as home […]
Many people believe that investing in real estate is a very low risk investment. the truth is that, depending on the timing, the type of real estate project, and other factors Real estate can either be low, medium or even a high risk investment scheme. Today, we will focus to a specific segment of the […]
