Real Estate

  Bloomberg When Nashville Mayor Megan Barry was campaigning last year, she made increasing the city’s stock of affordable housing a big part of her platform. It’s not hard to see why: Home prices in the cradle of country music have jumped 58 percent over the past three years as workers flocked to the city’s thriving economy. One in four ...

  Bloomberg Some Spanish banks are advancing more loans to home builders and cutting their borrowing costs, eight years after they froze credit for construction as the nation’s property bubble burst. CaixaBank SA, Spain’s third-largest bank, will this year lend €1.4 billion for developer financing, more than twice the amount in 2015, the lender said. Banco de Sabadell SA gave ...

  Bloomberg The tax benefits of homeownership, which generations of U.S. residents have counted on, have been elusive for typical buyers since mortgage rates started tumbling in 2008, according to an analysis by John Burns Real Estate Consulting LLC. For a married couple who put 20 percent down on a median-priced home and borrowed the rest, the standard deduction for ...

  Bloomberg Local developer Emaar Properties has received bids from contractors for the estimated AED500m ($136m) contract to build its Opera Grand Residential Tower in Dubai. The project involves the construction of a 65-70 storey tower a four level basement, ground floor and podium with townhouses, and 56 residential floors with seven levels for services. The total development will have ...

  Bloomberg Anbang Insurance Group Co., the Chinese insurer that backed out of a takeover bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., is on track to complete its $6.5 billion purchase of another U.S. hotel company from Blackstone Group LP, said Jon Gray, Blackstone’s global head of real estate. Anbang is under contract to buy Strategic Hotels & Resorts ...

  Bloomberg London’s property market is feeling the pressure from political uncertainty, with the U.K.’s vote on its European Union membership, mayoral elections in May and weakness in the pound contributing to falling house prices in some areas, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Demand from house buyers fell sharply in the capital in March, RICS said in ...

  Bloomberg Crystal Lagoons, the patented technology developer of giant crystalline lagoons and only global company with the technological capability to make the development of giant controlled manmade bodies of water economically viable, has joined forces with Egyptian real estate development company, TatweerMisr, to develop the first man-made lagoons in the Sokhna mountains. The development will bring six stunning lagoons ...

  Bloomberg Billionaire property investors David and Simon Reuben won approval to turn one of the oldest office towers in London’s Westminster borough into luxury apartments. The brothers will be allowed to turn the Millbank Tower complex near the Palace of Westminster into 207 homes with a skybar and a 150-bedroom hotel, the borough council decided at a meeting. Soaring ...

  Bloomberg It used to be a real estate listing with “Jacuzzi tub” or “crystal chandelier” would draw a lot of eyeballs, leading to higher prices and a speedy sale. These days, a barn door might be the golden (or wooden) ticket. According to a report released on Tuesday by Zillow Digs—the real estate site’s design and home improvement cousin—a ...

Bloomberg Here’s a fun experiment you can try at home: Open the online mortgage calculators of Wells Fargo, Halifax, part of the U.K.’s largest mortgage lender Lloyds Banking Group, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and tap in the median income in each country; $53,657, 25,844 pounds and A$59,571 respectively. Which bank looks most generous? If you’ve followed international housing surveys ...