Last week the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances increased to 6.24% from 6.16%. Applications to refinance a home loan dropped 16% for the week. Applications for a mortgage to purchase a home were essentially flat. Homes in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US, on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. Zak […]
The factors that exacerbate the housing problem in Greece, international practices and proposals for the Greek housing market NewsroomJanuary 1709:14 Demand from abroad, imbalances in financing with significantly fewer loans from banks, the existence of many empty houses, a change in the profile of many Greek households with more now single-person or single-parent households, construction and energy costs, taxation, and […]
November delivers another surge in transactions as off-plan demand drives market to fresh highs The highest value villa sale was an AED110 million property on Palm Jumeirah. Image: Shutterstock Dubai’s real estate market extended its record run in 2025, with November pushing both sales volumes and values beyond last year’s full-year peaks, according to new data […]
Bigger than expected rise takes average property cost to £272,998 House prices were up 1.8% from November last year UK house prices withstood market nervousness in the run-up to the Budget and pressures from high interest rates, gaining 0.3 per cent in November on the previous month. The month-on-month rise took the average property cost […]
Housing activity still likely to be ‘tempered’ by economic uncertainty, Canadian Real Estate Association says The Canadian Real Estate Association says the number of residential properties that changed hands in October was lower compared to a year ago, as prices also fell. There were 42,068 home sales across the country last month, down 4.3 […]
Euronews Business takes a closer look at European housing market trends, focusing on home sales and the factors driving them. Home sales in Ireland plummeted in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2024, according to data from Eurostat. It was one of four EU countries that saw a fall […]
Miami-Dade and Broward real estate posted their best sales month of the year in September as total single-family homes and condo sales in both counties all grew year-over-year, according to statistics released by the Miami Association of Realtors. In Miami-Dade, if you compare September to August, a month ago, condo sales went up slightly. In […]
By Emma Donaldson According to the latest Eurostat figures, house prices in Europe continue to rise, but Italy is growing more slowly than its neighbours. In Q2 2025, the House Price Index (HPI) rose by an average of 5.1% in the euro area and 5.4% across the European Union compared with the same quarter in 2024. […]
October 11, 2025 Chora, Folegandros Island, Greece. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Etienne Dallaire / CC BY 4-0 For many international investors, Greece’s real estate market conjures images of houses on Santorini, chic villas in Mykonos, or restored neoclassical townhouses in Athens. But beyond the glossy postcards lies a less obvious world of opportunity: abandoned stone villages in the […]
The growth was led by increased demand in the luxury segment in Dubai, which registered 17 transactions priced above $25 million Palm Jumeirah accounted for 34 per cent of all prime residential transactions during the quarter, making it the most active area. Image: Shutterstock Dubai’s high-end residential market recorded a rise in activity in the […]
