Bloomberg Italy is betting that a tax scheme to encourage home renovations will green its economy and create jobs. On the face of it, this low-tech approach is at odds with the European Union’s aim of promoting climate and innovation in exchange for billions of euros of aid money. But the government is convinced that paying citizens to make their ...

Bloomberg UK house price growth rises to a six-year high in December, rounding off a strong 2020 for the market that defied a wider economic downturn. Values climbed 7.3% from a year earlier to an average of 230,920 pounds ($312,800), Nationwide Building Society said on Wednesday. They increased 0.8% from a month earlier. The housing market has boomed in 2020 ...

Bloomberg A measure of home prices in 20 US cities rose in October by the most since 2014 as ultra-low mortgage rates and increased buyer appetite for more space depleted housing inventory. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index of property values climbed 7.95% from the same month the previous year, data showed. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists ...