Today, CBS (Statistics Netherlands) announced a y-o-y house prices drop, for the first time in decades. We have seen house…
Crisis exposes real estate valuation flaws
Touching base on what some people call the essence of the current crisis in real estate: valuations. Many property companies…
Cement versus Sentiment – the way ahead
This month’s EPRA Newsletter includes an interesting essay by Anatole Kaletsky, economic commentator of The Times of London, where he…
RICS European Housing Review
The RICS recently published their annual European Housing Review (2009 edition). A must-read for every real estate professional engaged in residential properties…
Boris Johnson attracting foreign investors…
Following up on a previous post: Welcome to the real world: UK real estate Boris Johnson is attracting foreign investors…
Focussing on bricks and mortar
Dutch real estate bank FGH published their annual real estate report (“vastgoedbericht”), with a message that, by now, every real estate…
Housing prices UK and China declining
What goes up, must come down. What everybody fears with respect to home sales and home prices, has now been…
Propertyshares NAV Premium / Discount
source: http://www.reita.org So, the times of property shares trading at discounts have returned. And how! Looking at the discounts Reita calculates…
Investors shift focus from capital to rental values
Apparently, real estate investors finally get some sense of reality, when their focus shifts to the main driver of the property…
Welcome to the real world: UK real estate
The UK property market may be seen as the market with the best pricing in the world today. The speed…
Real Estate Rollercoaster
US Home prices, adjusted for inflation, 1890-2007 … plotted to a rollercoaser… enjoy! Too bad this rides ends in 2007.…
Dubai on the rocks
Nothwithstanding the fact that more than half of the projects in Dubai have been put on ice… UAE. More than…
On A Peppercorn 