House prices have reached a new all-time high and mortgage rates have started to fall – but that won’t yet be enough to revive the property market, according to an expert. Even as borrowing costs fall, keeping home buyers away, the “lock-in effect” of homeowners reluctant to sell and give up their current 3% or … Read more
Reporter Chen Weifan/Reporting from Taipei ▲Zhang Dingxuan said that judging from the international financial situation, housing prices are very likely to usher in a new wave of growth next year. (Picture/Photography by reporter Chen Weifan) After the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) announces the possibility of interest rate cuts, what impact will it have on Taiwan’s … Read more
22 dec 2023 om 06:21 Houses for sale became more expensive again in November. It is already the sixth month in a row that the average price of an owner-occupied home is higher than the month before. This is evident from figures from statistics agency CBS and the Land Registry. In November, buyers paid an … Read more
20 dec 2023 om 00:01 The number of young adult women who continue to live at home has increased from 31 percent to 40 percent over the past twenty years. Young men and working people in their twenties are also increasingly less likely to live on their own. Traditionally, men live at home longer than … Read more
NOS NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 01:45 The municipality of Utrecht states that a ban on investors buying rental houses has the desired effect. It appears that the purchase protection allows more people to find a home from an analysis by the Land Registry. While in 2018 13 percent of all houses sold went to a landlord, this … Read more
Dec 15, 2023 at 3:00 PM Update: 4 minutes ago Landlords of homes in the private sector may increase their rents by a maximum of 5.5 percent next year. The Ministry of the Interior reported this on Friday. In September an increase of 4.9 percent was expected. The ministry determines the percentage by looking at … Read more
ANPModular homes under construction in Zaandam NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 21:02 The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, will pay an official visit to the Netherlands from Monday. The rapporteur will, among other things, look at asylum seeker centers. He “will conduct research into the availability of housing, its affordability and accessibility, homelessness and what … Read more
Finance Center/Reported by Tang Shiqing and Yan Kai in Taipei Signal, the Austrian real estate giant, declared bankruptcy, shocking Europe. In recent years, due to the surge in raw materials and rising interest rates, real estate prices in many countries have fallen, and the wave of bankruptcies among builders has continued to spread. For example, … Read more
Bloomberg — Mortgage applications for home purchases in the US increased for the fourth consecutive week, the largest streak of increases since March, helped by a further relaxation in borrowing costs. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s purchase application index rose 4.7% to a two-month high of 144.9 in the week ended Nov. 24. The contractual rate … Read more
16 Nov 2023 at 00:01 In the third quarter, 11,200 permits for new-build homes were issued. That is 27 percent less than a quarter earlier and is the smallest number in years. There was also a small contraction in the second quarter, reports statistics agency CBS. The number of permits issued says something about how … Read more