Arrival Of Realty Mutual Funds Aggravates Talent Shortage

The addition of new real estate investment products and property funds that developers are lining up are expected to exacerbate the talent crunch in real estate.
“The sector is currently hiring for front-office, back-office and operational roles. The levels are comparable to the first wave of aggressive hiring witnessed in the late nineties. We have seen [...]

London LuxuryHome Prices Rise at Slower Monthly Pace (Update2)

London Luxury-Home Prices Rise at Slower Monthly Pace (Update2)
By Simon Packard
March 4 (Bloomberg) — Luxury-home prices in London, the
worlds most expensive city for prime real estate, rose in
February at the slowest rate in four months as the prospect of
smaller bonuses [...]

Londons cooling market produces a wild ride

Even then, the couple used to look online at London houses for sale and found one that they loved in Primrose Hill, an upmarket North London neighborhood of mainly terrace houses, about a 10-minute taxi ride from the city center. Although they could not afford that house, when they moved to London a year and [...]

India Eases Rules to Attract More Overseas Investment (Update2)

India Eases Rules to Attract More Overseas Investment (Update2)
By Bibhudatta Pradhan and Saikat Chatterjee
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Indias cabinet eased some limits on
overseas investment in industries such as civil aviation, mining
and petroleum to draw more foreign companies to the [...]

Property trust targets Asia for growth

The number of shipping containers worldwide is expected to double in the next decade to 796 million standard 20-foot units, according to Containerisation International, a shipping news provider. Asia accounts for more than half of all shipping containers.
Demand for distribution centers in China and India may grow by as much as 25 percent a year, [...]

Europe, too, being hit by subprime housing woes

And the U.S. subprime mortgage market is being seen as the Grinch that stole Christmas — even among people on the other side of the Atlantic. Because the U.S. mortgages were packaged into securities and sold around the world, banks in Europe and elsewhere [...]

Rules Will Help House Prices Investment Property

whether as a holiday home or a buy-to-let investment,head of research at Knight Frank, Investment Property said the changes would help to support the investment property market in the UK and abroad Investment Property. He said: This is a big change and could have the effect of raising investment volumes — Investment Property and hence [...]