UK housing market gains momentum at start of 2024: Rightmove
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Average asking prices for British homes made the strongest start to the year since 2020, according to a Rightmove survey on Monday that added…
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Average asking prices for British homes made the strongest start to the year since 2020, according to a Rightmove survey on Monday that added…
NEW YORK CITY, NY — Democratic State Assemblywoman Jaime Williams expressed strong disapproval towards President Joe Biden and NYC Mayor Eric Adams following the temporary closure of James Madison High…
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada is considering a cap on the number of international students allowed to live in Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said according to…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s housing ministry and financial regulator asked local governments to better coordinate with financial institutions to provide financing support to real estate projects, as policymakers work to…
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s central bank made 350 billion yuan ($49.1 billion) in loans to policy banks through its pledged supplementary lending (PSL) facility in December, data showed, fuelling expectations of…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An armed drone was shot down on Tuesday over Erbil airport in northern Iraq, where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, two security sources said. The…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s New World Development and Chinese state-backed China Resources Land said they will jointly build a $1.3 billion housing project in the financial city’s “Northern…
TRENTON, NJ – During a recent Assembly Housing Committee hearing regarding a significant bill on affordable housing, Assemblyman Rob Clifton and Assemblywoman Vicky Flynn raised concerns about the lack of…
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s property market saw some recovery in November as a surge in mortgage rates eased, but surveyors remain cautious about the year ahead, an…
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ -A bill in the New Jersey legislature seeks to reduce required parking spot minimums on new high-density and residential construction projects if they are built close to…
BROOKLYN, NY — The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, in coordination with the New York City Department of Investigation, has indicted Luzmila Corbin, 56, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for grand larceny…
LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices rose unexpectedly in monthly terms for the third time running in November, adding to signs that the housing market downturn has abated, mortgage lender Nationwide…
Gov’t Sponsored Bank Judges Applicants’ ‘Diversity’ Before Handing Out Key Housing Grant Money Will Kessler on November 28, 2023 A government-sponsored bank ran a grant competition in November that partially…
BROOKLINE, MA — The Healey-Driscoll Administration has announced the first grants under the Affordable Housing Deep Energy Retrofit Grant Program. A total of $27.35 million will be awarded to seven…
There’s A Sign The Housing Market May Finally Be Thawing Will Kessler on November 22, 2023 Applications for mortgages ticked up to a six-week high for the week ending on…
By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – Growing confidence that U.S. bond yields have hit their peak and could head lower from here looks set to make the housing market…
(Reuters) – China plans to provide at least 1 trillion yuan ($137.22 billion) of low-cost financing to the nation’s urban village renovation and affordable housing programs, Bloomberg News reported on…
By Deborah Mary Sophia (Reuters) – Wall Street is bracing for another quarter of weak sales from U.S. home improvement chains Home Depot and Lowe’s as demand remained under pressure…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s residential construction sector was again hit by a wave of cancellations in October, according to a survey published on Monday that showed a record number of…
LAKEWOOD TOWNSHIP, NJ – A fatal explosion occurred on November 1 at a residence within the Lakewood Housing Authority on Sampson Avenue, leading to the death of Ronald Prichard, 67.…
(Reuters) – Insurer Assurant reported a surge in third-quarter adjusted profit on Tuesday, helped by the strong performance of its global housing unit and higher investment returns, sending shares up…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An 27-year veteran off-duty Housing officer was shot in Northeast D.C. yesterday en route to work. Steven Spencer, Deputy Chief of Police of the D.C. Housing Authority,…
Housing Market Half As Affordable Than Just Three Years Ago Will Kessler on October 21, 2023 Americans’ purchasing power in the real estate market has been cut in half in…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said on Monday the current level of interest rates has nearly killed off access to the…
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters on Friday that she still believes U.S. shelter inflation will continue to ease despite…