Investors who want exposure to Chinese real estate and think that the concerns over real estate prices are over-stated should take a look at the Guggenheim China Real Estate ETF (NYSE: TAO).
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Conversely, the high real estate prices in Jewish neighborhoods are forcing Jews to leave the city.
The reason that real estate prices in San Francisco respond so vigorously to relatively minor changes in demand is because the supply is so inelastic.
Real estate problems of this size were last created in the 1920s and the resulting foreclosures and slump in real estate prices did not happen until the early 1930s.
Chang Zhi, chief analyst of Century 21 China Real Estate, told the paper that he expects more real estate companies in the second- and third- tier cities to follow in the footsteps of the big realtors and cut real estate prices under the current policy.
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In parallel, heavy investments and speculative buying drove housing prices up to levels found in New York and Tokyo, overheating the real estate market and putting housing prices beyond the reach of most Chinese.
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If falling real estate prices threatendeflation, why did the Fed not perceive an inflation threat when real estate prices were rising?
The steep drop in copper prices observed in February came after China announced steps to curb the rapid rise in real estate prices by making it tougher to purchase homes.
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He anticipates four to six years of the real estate market flushing prices to try to get them back to realistic rates.
The exact mix between the cheap money policy of the Fed (which allowed the prices of real estate to be bid up) and the unsound lending and guarantee practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is surely part of the overall story.
For the first 10 months of the year, Beijing real estate prices have declined exactly 5.1%, according to the Beijing Real Estate Association.
The inventory is holding down real estate prices in many areas of the country and in turn could hold down property values for the long term because the neighborhoods are changing from a community of owner-occupied homes to rentals.
The trend is driven by real estate prices and is particularly acute in the expensive New York City area, where there is a "real consciousness" about gentrification, Davidson said.
The completely unsurprisng result of this is that the prices for real estate are exorbitant.
These are frothy numbers by any standard, and reflect in part the declining numbers of foreclosures being sold at giveaway prices in the interior markets of the state, and in part the underlying economic demand for real estate in the coastal cities, where prices traditionally have been high but plummeted dramatically during the recession years.
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But a drop in real estate will no more cause consumer prices to fall than the real estate boom caused them to rise.
Chinese property developers (and speculators) were among the biggest beneficiaries, as real-estate prices revived strongly in the fourth quarter, to the point where Jing sees danger signs ahead.
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There are risks in that the rapid rises in residential real estate prices could reverse and become destabilizing to parts of the economy, but overall, we forecast a soft rather than a hard landing for the economy and forecast 2102 economic growth of about 8%.
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The banks crashed, real estate prices crashed and interest in buying any property also crashed.
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In some areas of Mumbai, like in the far north, real estate prices have passed 2008 peak values.
Mexico's proximity to the U.S. and the significant drop in real estate prices are two factors beginning to lure U.S. companies to send office work south of the border.
On the other hand, due to the high oil prices and the bursting of real estate bubble, the USA economy is recently giving strong signals of a forthcoming stagflation: a recession with increasing inflation rate.
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The gushers of cash that have flooded Singapore in recent years have put relentless upward pressure on property prices, with private-home prices rocketing 59 percent higher since the second quarter of 2009, even as real-estate prices have tumbled or gone sideways in much of the rest of the world.
After a meteoric 165% rise in prices over three years, the real estate market slowed slightly in 2012, but prices continue to go up.
In the face of government policies aimed at lowering real estate prices, Longfor turned up the sales volume in the first half of this year.
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Yet, the potential for even a pause in ascending real estate prices is seldom considered as the local media often maintains that Australia completely dodged the Great Contraction.
More recently, measures from the Chinese government to control rising real estate prices will further suppress sales of construction equipment and machinery in the country, and thereby impact Caterpillar.
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As housing prices were wobbling elsewhere, the huge annual property exhibition reported remaining busy and potential investors were encouraged by a survey saying real estate prices in the Middle East will significantly out perform all other regions.
It is also very safe, family friendly, quaint and private, and this has long made it a top summer vacation choice for the very wealthy, especially since real estate prices on Nantucket favor millionaires and billionaires, and it is one of the most expensive vacation communities in the country in which to buy a home.
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In its latest results, Santander reported a 6% reduction in the total volume of loans held by its Spanish units, and the sale of 33, 500 Spanish homes it owned, helping to reduce its total exposure to real estate prices in the country by half, to 12.5bn euros.
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