• The motion asked the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister to work with MEPs in asking the European Commission to take action to protect property buyers, and in particular those affected by fraud.

    BBC: Property fraud in Europe

  • His fellow party member Aled Roberts AM stressed the importance of first time buyers in the property chain as he said that there is "no point hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing".

    BBC: Liberal Democrats debate

  • Last year, while government ministers were promising an imminent recovery, Assa's sceptical bosses made big job cuts, sold part of its headquarters (while there were still buyers for commercial property in Buenos Aires) and thus cut its borrowing.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina's battered companies

  • The math has changed in recent months and years, as government efforts to curb property inflation from the influx of foreign buyers have resulted in new fees and taxes, says Yolande Barnes, head of world research at Savills.

    WSJ: The Price of Global High-End Living

  • There still exists genuine demand for property, and the leverage ratio in the country's property market is low, as banks require higher down payments from home buyers, they wrote, adding that the decline in property prices is a result of government action, rather than a turnaround in the market.

    WSJ: China Home Prices Fall Again

  • Title companies, meanwhile, will be leery of insuring any transaction involving a foreclosed property in Massachusetts, making it harder for buyers to obtain mortgages and driving prices down further.

    FORBES: Massachusetts Supreme Court Strips Foreclosure Buyer Of Property

  • Property prices rose 50% between 2006 and their peak in 2009 - as the banks lent readily to home buyers, landlords and property developers - and have since fallen steadily.

    BBC: Cyprus's future: Is euro membership viable?

  • House purchases should become more attractive for these reasons, and because home-buyers see an end to the slide in property values.

    ECONOMIST: Wading in the yen trap

  • Those days it wasn't unheard of for buyers to pay in cash, for a property to attract up to 30 bids on its first day listed.

    NPR: Real Estate: A Long Suit in Vegas?

  • For buyers, a similar 80sqm to 120sqm property in central Barcelona will cost anywhere from 300, 000 to 600, 000 euros.

    BBC: Living in: Barcelona

  • As a result, home buyers have been flooding back into property showrooms in parts of the country in recent weeks.

    WSJ: China Steps Up Support for Parts of Housing Market

  • For both the Greeks and the Italians we can assume that the move has two causes: one is the devaluation of the pound against the euro in recent years which makes London property look cheaper to euro based buyers.

    FORBES: London Property: The Home of Flight Capital

  • He believes that the boom in the property market was unsustainable, but the situation for first-time buyers was preventable.

    BBC: The property market home truths

  • The quarterly property tracker conducted by the BSA found one in five first-time buyers believed they would still be renting or living with family in 2022.

    BBC: Home buyers 'nervous about year ahead'

  • The property boom is being driven by the enormous explosion in the number of potential buyers.

    FORBES: Brazilian Housing Boom Stock Buy

  • First-time buyers in Tunbridge Wells are being offered help to get on the property ladder in a scheme operated by Lloyds TSB and the borough council.

    BBC: Tunbridge Wells council launches Lend A Hand home scheme

  • Scottish first-time buyers typically borrowed 79% of their property's value in the second quarter, up from 77% in the previous quarter but still below the average of 80% in the UK as a whole.

    BBC: Mortgage lending in Scotland 'rises sharply'

  • SHANGHAI China has been supporting property purchases by certain buyers to meet genuine rather than speculative demand in the past few months, as Beijing seeks ways to stimulate consumption and ease credit to stave off a hard landing for the world's second-largest economy.

    WSJ: China Steps Up Support for Parts of Housing Market

  • More ambitious distressed-property specialists may personalize their properties in order to make them more attractive to prospective buyers.

    FORBES: Finding Value in the Economic Downturn

  • St Tropez in Var, along with Les Issambres and Le Lavandou attract buyers who want a coastal property, but prices have pushed land hunters inland to Fayence, Lorgues, Grimaud and Cogolin.

    BBC: Living in: Provence

  • He said Chinese investors have shown interest in property sales, adding that a single real estate office has sold some 400 residences to Chinese buyers.

    NPR: Cyprus: Cash, Security Control For Banks Reopening

  • Buyers and sellers in Manila have established a price, but because its commercial-property market is so thin, some analysts fear it is not the right one.

    ECONOMIST: Asian property

  • In the early 1990s Chinese investors poured money into California property, and East West benefited in part by helping non-Chinese customers willing to sell to Asian buyers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Also on Motorola's list of potential troubles: its intellectual property spat with rival Research In Motion and its postponed plan to split up the company, reportedly because buyers' bids did not meet expectations.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Property prices in London's smartest neighborhoods have been rising consistently largely because of an influx of foreign buyers, so the appeal of an improved rail service to the airport will help spread demand into new districts.

    WSJ: In London, an Underground Real-Estate Revolution

  • "Some local authorities have 'fine-tuned' their property policies by allowing home buyers to borrow more from public housing funds, causing a rebound in home prices, " Zhang Dawei, an analyst at Beijing-based Zhongyuan Real Estate, was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua.

    BBC: China home price rise indicates small rebound in demand

  • The recent currency controls put in place by the government have made it harder for Argentines to procure American dollars to buy property, but foreign buyers should find no problems.

    BBC: Living in: Buenos Aires

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