Real estate has been the most favorite type of investment around the world for centuries. Once a market starts to rebound, investing in property becomes a very appealing idea. Like any other endeavor, however, there are right and wrong ways to go about it. Usually, when a market is bullish investors rush into it without […]
Dubai’s real estate market is undergoing a correction, but the biggest players within the industry are equipped to weather the slowdown, rating agency Standard & Poor’s has said. In a new report, the agency said that it maintained its forecast that prices in Dubai’s residential property market will drop between 10 to 20 per cent […]
House prices surged further in the June quarter, though growth was concentrated almost entirely in Sydney and Melbourne — which highlights the growing risks in Australia’s biggest asset class. Nationally, the house price-to-income ratio reached a new high, reflecting lower interest rates and elevated investor activity. The current scenario appears unsustainable unless income growth picks […]
The U.S. has been named the hottest market for global residential property in a survey of 14 countries by real estate advisors Savills. The researchers analyzed economic and demographic trends to forecast how much prices in popular cities will rise over the next five years. 1. United States The U.S. housing market has enjoyed three […]
While everything in the global financial system is working against small economies, the existing terrorism fear together with the Kenyan shilling weakening, increase the economic uncertainty in the country. And just when we were about to say that we are getting used to it, a new crisis stemming from China came along. A couple […]
BEIJING, CHINA – AUGUST 27: A Chinese day trader reacts as he watches a stock ticker at a local brokerage house on August 27, 2015 in Beijing, China. A dramatic sell-off in Chinese stocks caused turmoil in markets around the world, driving indexes lower and erasing trillions of dollars in value. China’s government has implemented […]
When it comes to interest rates, what goes down eventually must go up. And as interest rates begin moving back up to more “normal” levels, that could spell trouble for home prices. When the bottom fell out of the housing market in 2007, the Federal Reserve responded by pushing borrowing rates to record low levels. […]
Housing markets are prone to the bandwagon effect, they continue rising when the fundamentals vanish, a year, maybe two years before. Stock market and commodity price volatility and declines are currently chronicled ad-nausea by the press without seeing the dramatic upswing of international property price falls. What is alarming is the pace of price declines. Even countries […]
In order to achieve better living standards for her citizens, every emerging country has to go through several phases. Unfortunately, the focus is mainly on quantity and not quality. People care only about today and not for the future. For sustainable growth and better standards of living, it is a basic requirement to include quality […]
Almost four in five Europeans (79%) thinks it is increasingly difficult to enter the housing market as a first-time buyer, a survey by ING showed. Luxembourg tops the list, with 94% of people saying first-time buyers face growing challenges, while the UK comes in second, with 89% expressing concerns. Ian Bright, senior economist at ING, […]
