Real Estate

  Bloomberg It used to be that you had to traverse the Indian or South Pacific ocean to sleep in a thatched-roof, overwater bungalow — the epitome of luxury accommodations. With ladders that descend straight into turquoise waters, four-poster beds with gauzy mosquito netting, and private plunge pools, they’re the stuff of honeymoon dreams. Now you can get the floating ...

Bloomberg Confidence among US homebuilders declined in July from a five-month high, showing the construction industry remains in a slow, if unspectacular, recovery as the busiest part of the selling season comes to a close, according to data this week from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) / Wells Fargo. Key points Builder sentiment gauge declined to 59 from ...

  Bloomberg London homebuilders are offering to pay sales taxes, gift 20,000 pounds ($26,800) of furniture and the chance to win a free parking space as Britain’s vote to leave the European Union damps demand. Brexit will damage the UK economy and residential property values in London could fall by more than 30 percent, Societe Generale SA analysts including Marc ...

  Bloomberg China’s yuan extended losses in early trading to tumble to the weakest level since 2010, pulled down by cooling property prices, a dollar rebounding on haven demand and a weaker central bank fixing. New home prices rose in fewer cities in June compared with a month earlier, official data showed on Monday, raising concern that a real estate-supported ...

  Bloomberg May was the biggest month for Toronto new home prices in 27 years. Prices in Canada’s largest metropolitan area rose 1.9 percent in May, and were up 6.4 percent from a year earlier. Nationally, home prices rose 0.7 percent in May, the largest monthly increase since 2007, Statistics Canada reported last week. The data adds to evidence that ...

  Bloomberg A leading US banking regulator wants lenders to do more to manage their exposure to commercial real estate. As property lending accelerates, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — which oversees American banks alongside the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. — is actively monitoring banks’ stress tests and risk-management practices, Comptroller Thomas ...

  Bloomberg At first glance, it’s hard to find much new to worry about in JPMorgan Chase’s second-quarter earnings report. Most of the important numbers beat estimates, although those estimates dropped like crazy before the report as the outlook for interest rates this year went from lower-for-not-much-longer to lower-for-who-knows-maybe-forever. Still, loan growth was robust and credit quality trends appeared to ...

Bloomberg China’s real estate sector grew faster than the overall economy in the second quarter as new home purchase restrictions in the biggest cities failed to deter buyers. Economic output by real-estate brokers surged 8.8 percent from a year earlier in the April-to-June period, while construction activities jumped 7.3 percent, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed this week. ...

  Bloomberg Soaring home prices in Vancouver and Toronto won’t keep the Bank of Canada from cutting rates to stimulate the economy, if it comes to that. That’s the takeaway from an interview Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz gave the Wall Street Journal after the release of the central bank’s policy decision, in which it left its benchmark rate ...

  Bloomberg Blackstone Group LP agreed to buy a 32 percent stake in Swedish residential landlord D. Carnegie & Co. AB from three of the company’s biggest shareholders. Blackstone, through its subsidiary Vega Holdco Sarl, will acquire the shares in the Stockholm-based company for 100 Swedish kronor ($11.8) each, Blackstone said in a statement this week. This will give the ...