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Las Vegas Home Prices Rise 8 Percent Annually

According to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors (GLVAR), the Las Vegas housing market is increasingly becoming more stable with Southern Nevada home prices remaining about 8 percent higher than they were a year ago.GLVAR reported the median price of homes sold in February 2015 was $205,000. That was up 2.5 percent from an […]

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Switzerland :Booming property market attracts investors

The strong Swiss franc and negative interest rates are driving spooked investors into property, according to a study by Swiss bank Credit Suisse. The difference in the rate of return between property investments and other forms of investment is at a record level as a result of the central bank’s negative interest rate policy, say […]

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Australlia:No evidence of a property bubble? Not quite

The ABA’s (Australilan Bank association) own definition of a residential property bubble surely indicates that Australia currently has one. There’s no getting around the fact that our real estate is abnormally expensive, writes Michael Janda. Contrary to the headlines, an Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) report released today doesn’t rule out a property bubble. Yes, the […]

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Top 10 Features Of A Profitable Rental Property

From the first decision to invest in real estate to actually buying your first rental property, there is a lot of work to be done. This task may be daunting for the first-time investor. Owning property is a tough business and the field is peppered with land mines that can obliterate your returns. Here we’ll […]

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Knight Frank’s 2015 Prime Residential Price Forecast

Residential Trends While the recent strength of key urban residential markets has been supported by safe-haven and wealth flows the story is much broader. Cooling measures in key Asian centres continue to weigh on prices and transactional activity, most obviously in Hong Kong and Singapore but also in Beijing and Shanghai. Slightly over half our […]

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Rics : Scottish property prices predicted to rise

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said the forecast was made by a net balance of 49% of respondents to its monthly survey. It said the increase was in part being driven by a decline in the number of houses coming onto the market. Rics added that supply continued to fall behind demand in […]

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German Real Estate: Why Investors Are Buying It Now

Germany may soon compete with London on the international real estate arena. Analysts at global real estate advisor Knight Frank, found that ultra-high-net-worth investors are increasingly interested in cities such as Berlin and Munich, which have seen a marked increase in activity in the last year. While continents such as the Americas have seen real […]

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London Housing market 2015 : A review

Over the past few years, the surge in house prices have been shocking Londoners from Shepherd’s Bush to Stratford. Many potential buyers have hoped that signs of a slowdown that emerged in the summer would continue, and so it has proved. But what is exactly a slowdown for a market that has been outperforming away […]

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The value of Great Britain’s homes has rocketed by £1.412 trillion to £5.752 trillion over the past 10 years – more than the combined GDP of France, Germany and Italy.

New analysis, which has measured the collective worth of all homes in England, Wales and Scotland and cut it by local authority, has revealed which areas have seen rocketing house prices over the past decade and which have been untouched by the 2006/2007 housing market boom and, latterly, the recovery. More than half of Great […]