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...“They’ve made similar pledges every quarter this year,” Pang said, “but the latest housing price data shows there’s still more policy support needed to generate a sustainable recovery for the property sector...
...Chinese authorities stepped up measures to support the renminbi and boost the country’s housing market in an effort to restore confidence in the world’s second-largest economy....
...Some major second and third-tier city authorities lifted all restrictions on housing purchases from July....
...These could include more funds for so-called urban village redevelopments as well as for social housing construction and green infrastructure, they said....
...A prolonged slowdown has since hit housing prices amid collapsing sales and delays to construction of new apartments....
...“We expect more (targeted) easing measures in coming months, especially on fiscal and housing, to counteract the persistent weakness in the economy,” Goldman wrote....
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...Ljubljana residents have taken to Reddit, where they seethe about the lack of housing, and ask each other for tips to find an affordable home....
...The Housing Act of 1924 delivered over half a million council houses in the following nine years and laid the foundations for the local authority housing that still shapes our towns and cities....
...The latest data show housing sales in the fourth quarter of 2022 fell more than 28 per cent year on year, marking the sixth straight quarter of declines....
...Housing became an asset class, leading to gross overdevelopment and unfulfilled promises of affordable homes....
...Henry, an urbanist and architect, has been an influential voice on housing and design in the Greater London Authority as well as a founder of Sound Advice, which explores the connections and communication...
...But more than a decade old, it’s starting to show its age — as with several of BIG’s Copenhagen projects, it could do with some TLC from the city authorities....
...Demand for housing in China has crumbled after a series of defaults by developers stoked a crisis of confidence among homebuyers....
...The method of financing construction has become more common as authorities cracked down on excess leverage in the sector in recent years....
...China’s real estate sector has struggled to come to grips with slowing growth coupled with authorities’ efforts to rein in excess leverage....
...Heseltine pushed through a flagship Thatcher programme of selling social housing to local authority tenants — creating a new wave of capitalist Tory voters — and later went on to do battle with the Campaign...
...“The housing voucher programme gets no cash support from the central bank....
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong and Maiqi Ding in Beijing...
...“This is the market’s realisation that we are moving from a clear V-shaped recovery into something a lot more uncertain,” said Mohammed Kazmi, a portfolio manager at Union Bancaire Privée....
...Digital Deeds It is a sellers’ market: both in the US housing market and the metaverse....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Feel free to email Imani or me at sid.v@ft.com or imani.moise@ft.com. Have a great week!...
...The decision, however, does not extend beyond Terkel v CDC, and it does not prohibit the application of the CDC’s eviction moratorium elsewhere....
...(FT) Britain’s housing supply must increase Food and shelter are essential requirements of human existence and, as the latter is almost as important as the former, the cost of housing often becomes a political...
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