Shockwaves from the financial crisis are rippling through Sweden’s housing market, resulting in falling prices and accelerating the already slowing pace of new construction.
The slump in housing prices between July and September has been felt primarily by owners of apartments rather than houses, and for people living in the Stockholm area.
According to a survey by [...]

China’s real estate market may enter another round of expansion around 2010, after the adjustment and transformation of the market, predicted a professor from Zhejiang University.
Jia Shenghua, deputy of the real estate research center in Zhejiang University, said that unlike ordinary consumables, the real estate sector is a quasi-financial market with periodicity.
“Judging from the current [...]

THE STOCK of rental properties on the market is growing at a rate of 10 per cent per month and is now approaching 10,000 homes according to the property website myhome.ie.
The rapid growth in the rental market suggests that would-be buyers are opting to rent rather than buy homes because of the uncertainty in the [...]

Fewer Canadian homes were sold in the third quarter but the number put on the market also dropped – a sign that a slide in housing prices is beginning to slow, says the Canadian Real Estate Association.
A total of 76,391 homes were sold in major Canadian markets in the summer quarter, a dramatic 10.7 per [...]

The average cost of a home dropped to 211,410 during the month, driven down by a 5.1% fall in the value of flats and a 3% slide in the cost of terrace houses, according to Communities and Local Government.
Across all buyers, a total of just 42,200 mortgages worth 6 billion were advanced for house purchase [...]

The Real Estate institute of Western Australia (REIWA) says Perth’s housing market is continuing to slow with the median house price dropping by four per cent in the September quarter.
The president of REIWA, Rob Druitt, says the median price fell from $445,000 in June to $426,000.
The average number of days it takes to sell a [...]

While real estate prices continue to hold near their highs, banks are preparing for a decline in property values by tightening mortgage requirements, making it harder for consumers to receive a loan.
“I’ve called all the banks, and each one said they were in the process of renewing their terms and regulations,” said Mikhail Sergeienko, a [...]

For a long time China’s “Golden Week,” a long holiday celebrating National Day, has been synonymous with a boom for the housing market. However, despite high expectations for this year’s holiday by Chinese real estate developers, the market in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen has instead shown itself as sluggish.
Beijing: Housing Sales Drop Over 70 Percent [...]

If we wanted to choose a logo for this year’s Expo Real, one of the world’s largest international commercial real estate exposition, it would probably be a gigantic question mark. The players of the world’s property markets are undoubtedly concerned about the global financial predicaments, although there is hardly anyone who would dare to make [...]

The current rental market is thriving while housing sales continue to fall, according to the latest lettings survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Many would-be sellers chose to become landlords in the current climate, highlighted by the fact that new instructions to let in July increased at the fastest pace in the survey’s [...]