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New Zealand:Reserve Bank gets tough on Auckland housing market – 30% deposit rule for investors

Tough new rules aimed at calming Auckland’s red hot housing market could make it more expensive to rent in the country’s biggest city. In an unprecedented move the Reserve Bank’s imposing tighter lending restrictions on property investors meaning those wanting to buy in Auckland will soon need a bigger deposit. From October, property investors in […]

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UK:Conservative victory reignites London housing market

Overseas investors rushed back to the London housing market on Friday, after the Conservative election victory dispelled the gloom that had hung over them for months. Several estate agents who buy and sell multimillion pound houses reported their phones had begun to ring early on Friday morning with calls from wealthy people around the world […]

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Kenya : Knight Frank says attacks slowed down property market

Insecurity slowed down prices in Kenya’s high-end real-estate market last year according to a report by property consultancy Knight Frank. The Africa Report 2015 says a spate of terrorist attacks in cities was one of the factors the 2014 prime property market was sluggish. An increase in the number of high-end properties that went up […]

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Houston: Housing Market Holds Up

Many economists and analysts expect Houston’s housing market, the nation’s hottest in recent years, to slow markedly this year due to depressed oil prices. The thing is, Houston isn’t cooperating so far. Several major home builders reported this week that their sales in Houston ran the gamut in the first quarter, from flat in comparison […]

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Colliers : Ottawa commercial real estate market on the rebound

  In its report for the first quarter of 2015 released Tuesday, Colliers International said the National Capital Region’s office and industrial markets are showing signs of recovery. Colliers’ survey of 462 office buildings across the region showed an overall vacancy rate of 11.2 per cent, down slightly from 11.3 per cent in the fourth […]

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UAE:More signs of slowdown in Dubai property market

Dubai’s property market has shown more signs of a first quarter slowdown as new housing comes on stream at a time of slowing sentiment. Average apartment prices fell 2 per cent compared with the previous quarter and villa prices fell 1 per cent during the first three months of the year, the property broker JLL […]

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Housing markets across Colorado vary widely, but improving

Carpenter Manuel Rubio of Van Dyk Construction works on a new home in the Reunion community of Commerce City in February. While real estate is hot in some areas of Colorado, it has cooled in others. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post) Heading into the peak home-selling season, metro Denver’s housing market remains one of […]