Spanish real estate agencies folding Half of Spain’s real estate agencies have folded in the past year due to a slowdown in the once-booming building sector, an industry association says. Of 80,000 that operated at the beginning of 2007, only around 40,000 have survived and some 100,000 employees lost their jobs, according to the Superior …
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Real estate hurdles expected in 2008
Real estate hurdles expected in 2008 The meltdown of the U.S. real estate market has many homebuyers wondering if and how it will affect the housing market in Canada, but market analysts feel the problems the U.S. is experiencing should have little impact on real estate in this country. In fact Statistics Canada recently reported …
Central Valley has two of nation’s weakest real estate markets [California]
Central Valley has two of nation’s weakest real estate markets for 2008 [California] Two of the nation’s five weakest residential real estate markets this year are in the Central Valley, according to Veros Real Estate Solutions, a Santa Ana-based company that sells enterprise risk management and collateral valuation services. Home prices in the Modesto market …
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Taking a chance in Belarus’s real estate market
Taking a chance in Belarus’s real estate market Belarus is the last Stalinist-era, centrally planned economy in Europe but a small and hearty group of Western investors are starting to probe the former Soviet Republic, seeing it as the last all-but-untouched real estate market in Europe. Yet, even as outside investor interest is swelling, there …
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What’s Next for New York?
What’s Next for New York? Looking back, 2007 was supposed to be the year that the Manhattan residential real estate market slowed down and began to look a bit more like the slumping national market. But that didn’t happen. While there were periods when condominiums and co-ops sat unsold because buyers and sellers couldn’t agree …
Real estate market could be hit further by rising home loans [New Delhi]
Real estate market could be hit further by rising home loans [New Delhi] The $15 billion real estate market which witnessed a sales drop of 60 per cent in the metros, may further worsen if reversal in rising interest rates for housing is not addressed urgently, a study said. According to the study conducted by …
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