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...Estate agents were also more optimistic about housing demand in March, according to the latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors....
...America’s real estate market remains stuck in the mud. Existing home sales, which make up most of the US housing market, totalled just 4.09mn units in 2023, a 30-year low....
...Roughly 80 per cent of PBB’s cover pool — the collection of assets backing its covered bonds — is made up of commercial real estate mortgages....
...Signs of stress in the commercial real estate sector are now coming thick and fast....
...The residential real estate brokerage industry has been in crisis for months, as higher mortgage rates dramatically slow down transaction volumes and class action lawsuits threatened the commission pool....
...But being the lender to real estate folks is better in this rate environment and you get the property as collateral.”...
...The worries around real estate are not limited to the US....
...Delinquencies in credit card and commercial real estate loans were on the rise, the FDIC said, and were now at the highest level in almost a decade....
...real estate brokerage Corcoran....
...According to US Mortgage Bankers Association data provided by Newmark, $929bn of commercial real estate debt will need to be repaid or refinanced this year alone....
...James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry trade group, called her a trailblazer....
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...Even before its default, which was first reported by commercial real estate newsletter The Promote, Brooklyn Tower was a talking point....
...“We are struggling to buy a bigger home right now,” says Emma, who didn’t wish to disclose her real name....
...Real estate groups are lobbying the Treasury to row back on changes to property taxation in England that would see investors in rental housing pay more tax on deals....
...“Along with other recent incentives, it reflects the policy intention to activate the real estate market and boost sentiment.”...
...Blackstone Mortgage Trust provides loans to commercial real estate companies in North America, Europe and Australia. Its market capitalisation is just under $4bn....
...Hengda Real Estate, Evergrande’s mainland business, was also audited by PwC Zhong Tian, a mainland entity affiliated to PwC’s network....
...“It might be that we are seeing the beginning of a stabilisation in real estate prices,” said Moritz Schularick, president of the Kiel Institute, adding mortgages “should become cheaper again, thereby stimulating...
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...Separate BoE data last week showed that real interest rates on new mortgages fell for the first time since 2021 in December, helping lift mortgage approvals to a six-month high....
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