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APC Group SA Opens New Office in Geneva to Serve European, African and American Markets

GENEVA, Jan 27, 2016 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) — APC Group SA, an integral part of the global Plantation Capital Group and an award-winning sustainable plantation management company, officially opened its new management Head Office this month in Geneva, Switzerland. As a major, global economic hub, Geneva was identified as the ideal location for […]

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Melbourne is Australia’s new hottest housing market

Melbourne is now officially home to the hottest capital city housing market in Australia. According to the latest CoreLogic RP Data capital city house price index, residential property prices in Australia’s second largest city rose by 11.0% in the 12 months to January, displacing the mantle Sydney has held for much of the past three […]

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4 Ways China Influences Global Economics

  At the start of 2016, the financial markets went into a frenzy when China’s Shanghai Stock Index plunged 7% in one day. The stock markets in Europe, Asia and the United States quickly followed suit with steep declines. In the following days, while traders focused on China’s financial markets, economists were looking at the […]

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Singapore office landlords have that empty feeling

SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Singapore’s office landlords are among the world’s most luckless right now, and they have builders to blame. The market already has an empty feel to it, and as developers add more space in a slowing economy, property owners’ misery could keep compounding. Over the past year, the city’s three big office real […]

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New Zealand : House price expectations drop as Auckland market loses heat

Expectations around rising Auckland house prices have plummeted due to new housing measures introduced last year, ASB says. The rest of New Zealand has also experienced a decline in net price rise expectations, surprising the bank’s economists, especially with interest rates so low. ASB’s housing confidence survey for the three months to January shows 54 per […]

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Real Estate Investment trusts (REITs) basics

Over the last years, a new vehicle promising to give investors a nice ride became very popular, it is the real estate investment trust, or REIT (pronounced “reet”). REITs are a bit different than the traditional real estate investments. Investing in REITs would require us to cover REIT basics. We shall focus on their characteristics […]

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Has the fall in Dubai property prices come to an end?

Dubai’s residential property market is showing signs of plateauing after about 18 months of price decline. New figures from the consultancy ValuStrat show that there was “no significant change” in values of apartments and villas in the 26 areas that it monitored in December. It said that its ValuStrat Price Index remained constant at 97.9 […]