Real Estate

Bloomberg Australia’s tumbling property prices could shave up to 1.2 percentage points from economic growth in 2019 as the decline hits housing construction and consumer spending, according to AMP Capital Investors Ltd. Sydney and Melbourne prices will drop a further 10 percent next year, taking their peak-to-trough fall to 20 percent as a “perfect storm” smacks housing, AMP Chief Economist ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Land Department (DLD), organised the LPS Shanghai, at the Shanghai Convention Centre, China. The DLD was accompanied by a delegation of senior real estate developers in Dubai as strategic partners of the show. The Dubai pavilion was inaugurated at the LPS Shanghai in presence of Rashid Matar Al Siri Al Qemzi, UAE Consul-General in Shanghai; ...

Bloomberg Could nano flats — billed as one way of solving Hong Kong’s chronic housing shortage — be on the way out as quickly as they grabbed the public’s attention? Two years ago, when the developer of a residential project in the New Territories unveiled units smaller than a parking space, an executive was quoted as saying: “Even the emperor ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) and Awards International announced the launch of the third edition of the Gulf Real Estate Awards (GREA) 2019 following the success of the two previous editions. The announcement was made during a press conference that was held at DLD’s head office, where all regional real estate companies were invited to participate in ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s Central area has taken the prize for the world’s most expensive premium office rents for a fourth year running, according to global real estate consultant JLL. Occupancy costs — including rent, taxes and service charges — are 60 percent higher than New York’s Midtown and almost 75 percent more costly than London’s West End, JLL’s Premium Office ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) will organise Dubai Property Show (DPS) – Mumbai and Luxury Property Show (LPS) – Shanghai, where the former will be held from December 7-10 in Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India, and the latter on December 7 – 9 in the Shanghai Exhibition Centre in Shanghai, China. HE Majida Ali Rashid, CEO ...

Bloomberg London’s decade-long housing boom may have been cooled by Brexit, but the property market in the rest of the UK is largely shrugging it off. While home prices in the capital have risen only 1.7 percent since the June 2016 vote, those in Birmingham, Britain’s second-biggest city, have jumped almost 15 percent, according to Hometrack. Manchester is close behind ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s housing market is suffering its worst declines since 2016 — by multiple measures. New-home sales this month are on track to be the lowest by volume since January or February of that year, according to Midland Realty data. Meanwhile, used-home prices have fallen for eight weeks, the longest losing streak since 2016, according to the Centa-City Leading ...

Bloomberg London’s biggest office landlords face an unprecedented situation: a political fork in the road that could send the real estate market in polar opposite directions. Developers such as Land Securities Group Plc, British Land Co and Great Portland Estates Plc bet on the way the market will look years in the future when they green light plans to buy ...

Bloomberg Sales of previously owned US homes rose in October for the first time in seven months, suggesting demand is stabilising at a lower level as available properties become less scarce. Contract closings increased from the prior month to an annual rate of 5.22 million, the National Association of Realtors said. That compared with economists’ projections for sales of 5.2 ...