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  • Oct 3, 2013
  • Updated: 3:17am

From yesterday, banks have to keep lending to borrowers with mortgage deposits of less than 20 per cent of a property's value - so-called high loan-to-value ratio lending (LVR) - to no more than...

5:12AM

Dharmendra Singh has spent A$1.3 million (HK$9.4 million) since July on two houses 39 kilometres northwest of Sydney, drawing on an existing mortgage to pay a deposit on one and taking out two new...

5:12AM

For Mari Nuzum, who spent three years searching, it's the best time to buy a home in Greenwich, Connecticut. She and her husband, Richard, bought a six-bedroom Colonial revival in the back-country...

5:12AM

Swedish housing is overvalued by as much as 25 per cent after prices accelerated at a faster pace than disposable income, according to Standard & Poor's.

5:12AM

Chinese investors, including some from Hong Kong, have bought property near drilling rigs in the northern United States to share in the country's oil boom.

5:12AM

The Dubai Land Department will raise the transaction fee to 4 per cent from 2 per cent from Sunday, its director general, Sultan Bin Mejren, said. The change will apply to residential and...

5:47AM

The flight by foreign companies from violent unrest in Egypt threatens to drive up vacancy rates at offices and shopping centres and prompt international investors to shift funds to sub-Saharan...

5:48AM

According to latest data from the Central Statistics Office, Dublin's residential property prices grew by 3.3 per cent in July, gaining 8 per cent year-on-year. This contrasts with house prices in...

5:12AM

House prices in England and Wales posted their biggest month-on-month gain in more than six years in September, but talk of a price bubble is overdone, property analysis firm Hometrack said in a...

5:38PM

House prices in England and Wales posted their biggest month-on-month gain in more than six years in September, but talk of a price bubble is overdone, property analysis firm Hometrack said in a...

11:28AM

Kenyatta Harper, a freelancer for advertising agencies, is trading the one-bedroom Brooklyn, New York apartment she's renting for US$1,600 a month for a two-family home nearby that cost her about...

4:44AM

House prices in parts of Britain continued to surge upwards in July, with homes in London fetching almost 10 per cent more than the year before, official figures showed.

4:44AM

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