Housing
Should developers build more one-bedroom condo units?
Affordability, leasing demand and an ageing population support having more of such housing
New EC rules to cool prices: MOP doubled to curb flipping, no more deferred payments and more units for first-timers
Land bids, new launch sales expected to slow with first-timer priority raised to 90% of units, extended to 2 years
Billionaire Duke of Westminster to sell £700 million of US real estate assets
Agents are being appointed to market those assets on a case-by-case basis
US new-home sales increase in March to fastest pace of year
At the same time, mortgage rates have climbed from a recent low at the end of February
Can a second home tax work in New York? The numbers don’t add up yet
The tax proposal is being held up as a generational attempt to make the ultrawealthy pay more to society
‘No more WeWork-style growth’: Hmlet CEO Yoan Kamalski on his comeback and lessons learnt
‘Unfinished desires’ fuel his return and the pivot to sustainable growth under Mitsubishi Estate
Italy’s Meloni backs housing access plan as election nears
It includes the refurbishment of existing social housing and steps to halve notary fees
UK house prices rise in April despite Iran war headwinds: Nationwide
They go up 0.4% after a 0.9% increase in March, in contrast to economists’ expectations in a poll for a 0.3% drop
New Zealand house prices lack momentum as buyers sidelined
While they rose for a third straight month in April, the increase was just 0.1% from March: property consultancy
US mortgage rates tick up to 6.37%
[WASHINGTON] US mortgage rates rose last week for the first time in a month, with the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage up 2 basis points to 6.37 per cent for the week ended April 24, the Mortgage B...
