Commentary A handful of years ago, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Chinese were taking over the U.S. real estate market. Reports abounded of Chinese buyers pouring tens of billions of dollars per year into American property, seeking a safe haven for their wealth by snapping up everything from luxury condos in downtown…
Chinese Property Developers Funding Plummets Amid Deepening Liquidity Crunch
China’s developers continue to face a liquidity crunch, with fundraising across all channels down 70 percent year over year in January, reported state-run media China News network. Capital raised by the property industry through selling domestic and international bonds, trust loans, and asset-backed securities totaled 79 billion yuan ($12.4 billion) in January, as uneasy sentiment extended into…
Real Estate Prices are Soaring—How Bad Is It?
Commentary There’s been a lot of hand wringing about the real estate market recently. And with good reason. Home prices have been on an absolute tear for the past two years. Since the low of the pandemic, home prices have seen 13 consecutive months of increasing prices. By July 2021 they were up 20 percent…
Analysis: The State of the Commercial Real Estate Industry
On Feb. 13, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will kick off its annual Commercial Real Estate Finance (CREF) conference, one of the most important trade events within the commercial property industry. Ahead of the event, Benzinga spoke with Mike Flood, MBA’s senior vice president of commercial/multifamily policy and member engagement, about the trends and issues shaping the…
5 Variables to Consider When Saving a Home Down Payment
Dear Monty: Our New Year’s resolution for 2022 is to save up a down payment to buy a home. We are not clear how much money we need for a down payment. We both have suitable stable employment and have rented since we married over four years ago. Now we want to start a family….
How Much Would You Pay for Virtual Land? Some Metaverse Properties Now Topping $4 Million
With home prices continuing to soar in popular markets across the country, first-time homebuyers are finding it increasingly more difficult to score a small piece of the burgeoning real estate market. Yet recently published reports have splashed head-scratching breaking news about virtual real estate properties selling for upwards of $4 million in newly emerging Metaverse…
Reasons to Avoid Residential Real-Estate for the Long-Term
Commentary It’s hard to deny that residential real estate is in strange territory. Over the past two years, we’ve seen interest rates at record lows, buyers purchasing properties site unseen, and cities like New York that were once pronounced dead, have emerged from the grave. In the past year, the median price for homes in…
New Loans Pick up as Australian House Prices Continue to Grow
February 1, 2022
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New Australian housing mortgage commitments rose 4.4 percent in December to a record high value of $32.8 billion (US$23.3 billion) as house prices in the country continue to climb. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that it was driven by a 5.3 percent increase in the value of new owner-occupier loans. The average loan…
George Soros Outlines Dangers Posed by CCP Authoritarian Rule in 2022
The year 2022 will be a turning point where much of the world will pivot sharply in the direction of either authoritarianism and repression or openness, and events in China will play a decisive role, said billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros at a virtual event hosted by the Hoover Institution think tank on Jan….
Is It Ethical to Negotiate the Agent’s Commission?
Dear Monty: My wife and I are in the process of downsizing. We have shopped neighborhoods and have chosen several where we would like to land. In this process, one particular agent showed us five or six homes. Now it is time to list our home. This agent’s company has proven a definite lack of…
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