Goa has always been a popular tourist destination in India with a strong local market demand where more small developments are required. Long gone are the days where holiday makers would simply want to check-in to hotels; now the demand is for local gated communities.
One of the developments being sought after by investors is the [...]

A suspension on stamp duty would create renewed confidence in the housing market, but could play into the hands of those less in need such as investors and second home owners, critics say.
Alistair Darling today hinted he is considering suspending stamp duty in a bid to kick-start the flagging housing market.
In an interview, the chancellor [...]

SYDNEYSIDERS are caught in a bind as rising interest rates push more people into mortgage stress at the same time as the rental squeeze makes it impossible for people in some suburbs to find rental accommodation. Young families are particularly exposed.
A million households, or 15 per cent of all home-loan borrowers, could be in mortgage [...]

Real estate prices in Scotland are letting faster than at any time in recent years with continuing high tenant demand, according to latest research by Scotland’s leading online letting portal Citylets.
The Citylets quarterly report, Trends in Scottish Residential Lettings, released today, shows that more properties are being let, and being let more quickly, than in [...]

More than three-quarters of Irish real-estate agents don’t expect an improvement in housing-market activity over the next 12 months, NCB Stockbrokers reported, citing a survey.
Forty-nine percent of those surveyed expect the property market to remain the same, while 29 percent expect a decline, Dublin-based NCB said in a report today. Twenty-two percent expect an improvement.
“Tighter [...]

The devastating Wenchuan earthquake had only a limited impact on property markets in Western, Central and Northern China. The price and supply of luxury apartments in Western and Central China experienced a slight drop, but office and industrial markets in those regions continued to display rental growth. A surge of businesses entering Chengdu’s industrial parks [...]

Confidence in the rental property market in New Zealand is at its lowest point for four years despite rents rising, according to a new report.
Rental property has given the best returns of a property investment, according to the survey by ASB, one of the leading banks and investor providers.
But in the three months to June [...]

Hanoi s real estate remains a rich potential market and investors can be confident of the rehabilitation and prospect of this market, according to the US real estate service firm, CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
At a press conference held on July 17 to review the Hanoi real estate market in the first months of this year, [...]