RIYADH / Bloomberg JLL, the world’s leading real estate investment and advisory firm, has released its inaugural ‘2016 Top Trends for KSA Real Estate’. Modelled on similar JLL reports in other markets, the KSA Top Trends will be an annual report which will assess and forecast the major trends which are likely to impact and shape the KSA real estate ...

NEW YORK / Bloomberg The total cost of the World Trade Center rebuilding project will come in at the lower end of the $14.8 billion to $15.8 billion range projected four years ago, a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official said. The cost estimate was contained in a 2012 report commissioned by the agency’s board as it ...

London / Bloomberg China’s Ministry of Finance said it will cut taxes on home transactions as it steps up support for the property market, after the central government eased mortgage down payment requirements to the lowest level ever earlier this month. China will set the deed tax at 1.5 percent of the home’s value for first residences bigger than 90 ...