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30.01.26 - 08:42
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Berlin′s Real Estate Market: Socialism On The Rise (ZeroHedge)
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Berlin's Real Estate Market: Socialism On The Rise
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
Germany's debt crisis continues to tighten the political leeway of the Federal Republic. The latest push by Berlin's SPD for stricter real estate regulation clearly signals the direction ahead: Parties at the brink are choosing state-controlled economics over a market-driven turnaround.
The German capital, Berlin, functions as a political testing ground and as ground zero for the united left of the Federal Republic. Like a magnifying glass, Berlin's state politics reveal the broader response patterns of German politics to current social and economic challenges. The city's real estate market now demonstrates trends likely to define the political character of the years to come.
Faced with dramatic housing shortages, steadily rising rents, and exploding property prices, policymakers respond with even stronger regulation and rent controls. This is a policy of artificial scarcity, as investors systematically retreat f...
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30.01.26 - 08:12
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Japan Housing Starts Fall 1.3% In December (AFX)
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TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - Japan's housing starts decreased for the second straight month in December, data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism showed on Friday.Housing starts......
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30.01.26 - 07:18
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Hang Lung Properties FY25 Earnings Decline (AFX)
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HONG KONG (dpa-AFX) - Hang Lung Properties Ltd. (0101.HK, HLPPY), on Friday reported it net income decreased in the full year 2025 compared with the previous year. For the full year 2025, profit a......
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30.01.26 - 02:01
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Democrats knock Trump′s pledge to ′drive housing prices up′ (The Hill)
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Democratic lawmakers on Thursday slammed President Trump over comments he made about wanting to "drive housing prices up" for people who own their homes, with one congresswoman telling followers that he "doesn't care about making your life more affordable." During a Cabinet meeting earlier Thursday, the president said he wants to keep homeowners "wealthy." "We're......
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29.01.26 - 19:42
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Real Estate Developers Faced With Affordability Challenges (Bloomberg)
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Jay Neveloff, Partner and Chair of Real Estate, US at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, discusses whether domestic politics, including President Donald Trump's designs on reinvigorating the US housing market, are impacting the real estate sector broadly. Jay speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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29.01.26 - 10:12
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Hong Kong regains lustre as stocks rally, property picks up (SCMP)
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Hong Kong's financial war chest increased its earnings by 51 per cent to a record last year, fuelled by a rally in local and global stocks as well as bonds.
The Exchange Fund's investment income surged to HK$331 billion (US$42 billion), the most since its creation in 1993, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said on Wednesday. Hong Kong's de facto central bank uses the fund's holdings to help defend the city's currency peg to the US dollar.
All of the fund's main investment categories were......
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