The FINANCIAL -- Today’s decision by the European Central Bank to extend its quantitative easing programme will sustain commercial real estate’s appeal to investors by keeping Eurozone interest rates and bond yields at record low/negative levels, according to Cushman & Wakefield. However, the most attractive opportunities are likely to be found outside core Eurozone markets where yields ...
The FINANCIAL -- Freddie Mac on November 12 released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showing average fixed mortgage rates rising amid continued market expectations of a ...
The FINANCIAL -- RealtyTrac on November 12 released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for October 2015, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions ...
The FINANCIAL -- The seller is TIAA-CREF, one of the leading U.S. financial services organizations which will remain the majority owner with 51% and serves as the operating partner of the assets. The ...
The FINANCIAL -- Demand for houses fitted out with the latest home technology is increasing, and now a new Digital Homes Report released today by Barclays Mortgages has revealed that almost a third ...
The FINANCIAL -- Paying for a mortgage is still more affordable than renting in the U.S., but saving enough money for a down payment has become increasingly difficult for first-time buyers, ...
The FINANCIAL -- The U.S. negative equity rate continued to drop in the third quarter of 2015, according to the Zillow Negative Equity Report.i Nationally, 13.4 percent of homeowners owe more on ...
The FINANCIAL -- Freddie Mac on December 3 released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), showing the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate declining for the third consecutive week ...
The FINANCIAL -- Brazil's home prices dropped for the fourth consecutive month in November, as the country's economic recession damaged consumer confidence, according to ...
The FINANCIAL -- RealtyTrac on December 3 released its October 2015 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that among 94 major metro areas analyzed for the report, 33 markets (35 percent) have now ...
The FINANCIAL -- Pending home sales were mostly unchanged in October, but shifted marginally higher after two straight months of declines, according to the National Association of Realtors. Gains in ...
The FINANCIAL -- Deteriorating housing affordability will drive 2016 housing trends. A lack of affordable homes near city centers will push new and first-time homebuyers to suburbs that feel like ...
The FINANCIAL -- RealtyTrac analyzed school test scores for nearly 27,000 elementary schools in more than 7,200 U.S. zip codes, along with home price affordability in those same zip ...
The FINANCIAL -- New-home construction sank in October, as builders dialed back construction of apartments and condominiums that drove demand through much of the summer, according to ...
The FINANCIAL -- New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue is the most expensive retail street in the world with rents rising to US$3,500/sq. ft. in 2015, which is nearly 50 percent more expensive than second ...
The FINANCIAL -- The encouraging lift–off in existing–home sales amidst ongoing inventory shortages kept home prices rising in most of the country during the third quarter, but overall price ...