More than six years after the US housing bust stalled construction and led many companies to slash workers, the reverse is occurring: As demand for new homes has risen, builders can't hire as fast...
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8 May 2013
After a decade as someone else's tenant, the Bells, like a rising number of Americans, are finally ready to buy a home. Yet they're running into an obstacle that's keeping the national housing...
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1 May 2013
US investors are rediscovering their appetite for foreign real estate. Attracted by potentially higher returns, they are putting more money into overseas funds that invest in offices, malls and...
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24 Apr 2013
Like the tide that laps Miami, Florida's famous coastline, the property cycle in America's "sunshine state" does tend to ebb and flow. The difference is that with real estate, you can never pick...
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17 Apr 2013
The median monthly rent climbed 6.7 per cent from a year earlier to US$3,195, according to a report last week by appraiser Miller Samuel and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The number of...
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20 Mar 2013
Rents for single-family homes are rising more slowly than property prices as firms such as Blackstone Group flood the market with homes for lease, posing risks to investors betting billions on the...
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Low interest rates, a tight inventory of properties for sale and record affordability are fuelling accelerated price gains, Michelle Meyer, a Bank of America economist, and Chris Flanagan and...
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Builders started work on 920,000 houses at an annual rate following December's 954,000 pace, which was the fastest since June 2008, according to the median forecast of 73 economists surveyed by...
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Hong Kong home prices are likely to rise or fall no more than a mild 5 per cent thisyear. However, limited supply will drive up rents by about 10 per cent, according to Knight Frank.
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Non-delinquent borrowers with illness, job changes or other reasons they need to move will become eligible in March to apply for a so-called deed-in-lieu transaction that erases the shortfall...
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Sales of US homes probably rose in December to the highest level in three years as the industry headed toward a more rooted recovery in 2013, economists said before reports this week.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission has received 145 complaints this year about insider dealing, Tong Daochi, the CSRC's director general of international affairs, said at a meeting in Hong...
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