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 …

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 …

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 …

Slowdown expected in ’08 [Indianapolis Area]

Slowdown expected in ’08 [Indianapolis Area] Commercial real estate in the Indianapolis area is a riskier bet in 2008 than it has been for many years. A national lending crisis has nearly ended the flow of out-of-state investment capital to the sector. With the money spigot turned off, at least for now, developers locally will …

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 …

Real estate market continues to soar [Toronto]

Real estate market continues to soar [Toronto] Canada’s red hot real estate market continued to soar in the fourth quarter of 2007 with little sign of the traditional winter slump, according to new data released Tuesday by Royal LePage. Many markets reported double-digit gains in the final months of last year, likely driven by booming …