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, […]
Real estate junkies looking for what’s hot in Germany are increasingly eyeing a city in the east that’s become one of the main successes of reunification: Dresden. “Munich is too expensive, Hamburg is too expensive, Berlin is getting too expensive, so investors are looking for the next best thing, and that’s Dresden,” said Ronald Fiedler, […]
February CSO figures show residential prices down 0.4% nationally, 0.7% in Dublin Residential property prices fell by 0.4 per cent nationally last month, with the decline in Dublin rising to 0.7 per cent, according to the latest official figures.The Central Statistics Office (CSO) results show more than 2 per cent has been wiped off the […]
An analysis of the German housing market based on purchasing power shows a sharp slowdown in price rises in wealthy, mid-sized cities in 2014, Fitch Ratings says. This follows the moderation in prices already seen for large, wealthy cities since 2011 and may reflect affordability pressure. This is in line with our view that the […]
Middle East real estate consultant Cluttons new research has revealed that a cosmopolitan lifestyle is expected to be among one of the main factors that influence the selection of a real estate investment destinations for Middle East buyers in 2015. Cluttons extrapolated the results from its most recent International Private Capital Survey to examine the […]
Watching your neighbors bid on apartments or houses has become a national pastime in Sweden. In the last week of January, more 2.3 million browsers (in a nation of less than 10 million) clicked into the Hemnet home-auction website to keep tabs on the surging real estate market. As Sweden has sidestepped a bigger downturn […]
