WHO’D have guessed it? Housing is the reason global stockmarkets are suddenly looking sickly, housing is the curse of the credit system, and it just might be the key to this year’s federal election.
In the US, the core problem behind the credit crisis dragging at Wall Street — and by implication the rest of the […]

Housing and Construction Co, Israel’s biggest construction firm, said on Tuesday its board had decided to invest in real estate and infrastructure projects in India.
Housing said in a statement it would establish a joint venture with a company owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva to pursue such projects with an initial investment of $100 million. […]

SHENZHEN, China’s first special economic zone which neighbors Hong Kong, now has the country’s highest housing prices.
It was reported the average housing price of the city has reached 14,223 yuan (US$1,850) a square meter while the average price in the city’s four major districts has surpassed 20,000 yuan.
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The real estate scenario in India is getting bigger with each passing day and attracting attention from more and more foreign investors. Also, add the foreign exchange glut in the country fuelled to a great extent by Non Resident Indians (NRIs) investing their dollars in the market.
NRI participation in Indian realty has certainly brought greater […]

MUMBAI: It’s not just RBI, but International Monetary Fund (IMF) and central banks across Asia too are concerned over the spiralling property prices and the possible impact on the banks’ books.
In its regional economic outlook for Asia-Pacific, IMF has warned that although rising home loans portfolio appears to be manageable, if home loans continue to […]

INVESTORS seeking the cheapest property stocks are buying in Japan, Germany and China after a two-year tumble in shares of United States home builders.
Japanese land prices are rising for the first time in 16 years, yet shares of developers trade at less than a third the global average, according to UBS AG.
The start of real-estate […]

Kishore Jethanandani submits: A good thumb rule for bargain hunting is to look for assets recovering from a meltdown after a bubble. The traumatic experience tests the management and brings into relief the flaws in the company tactics and strategy. For the leaders, such situations are opportunities to rise to the occasion, shake-up the company […]

Traditional home sells for £7.1m in part of the city once shunned by rich
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Indian property executives told that their property boom would end in tears.
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Traditional home sells for £7.1m in part of the city once shunned by rich
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TOKYO — Land prices in Japan rose last year for the first time since the so-called “Bubble Economy” burst in 1990, government data showed Thursday, indicating that the long era of real estate deflation may be coming to an end. Residential land prices gained 0.1 per cent on average in 2006, while commercial land prices […]

This report provides a comprehensive insight on all aspects of the Indian real estate sector. It contains a description of the regulatory framework, trends and growth drivers and draws a picture of the macro-environment of the real estate industry in a PEST framework. The report also lists both institutional and private players like DLF, Ansal […]

Pune has been the hotbed of engineering activity for many years now, with the likes of Tata, Bajaj, Bharat Forge and several others based in the city. In recent times though, IT, ITeS and a lot of R&D work has considerably upped the ante of real estate development within the city. The pace of development […]

Asia’s real estate markets seem to have recovered from the Asian crisis. But the reality is quite different. Asia’s residential markets have performed poorly, according to a report released by the Global Property Guide..
 
   
  Asian residential property buyers beware!
Asia’s real estate markets seem, on the surface, to have recovered from the Asian crisis and to […]

The Japanese property 16 year bear market increasingly looks like it has come to an end. Presenting an excellent opportunity for investors to get in on a new housing bull market just when other property markets around the world are showing signs of peaking or like the US market are actually falling.

Already investors have been […]

There is an unprecedented real estate boom in parts of India. These are the National Capital region, certain parts of Bombay-New Bombay-Pune and outsourcing Mecca - Bangalore. It is to a great extent, driven by the huge growth of the IT (Information technology) and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry.
As the IT industry grew, employees got […]