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11.01.26 - 02:36
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Have investors missed the boat on Japan′s property market amid tensions with China? (SCMP)
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Japan's property market was less likely to deliver significant rewards to investors because of heightened geopolitical tensions with China, more than a tightened monetary policy, according to analysts.
“The yield spread is likely to narrow as cap rates are unlikely to widen,” said Chinatsu Hani, head of research at Tokyo-based CBRE. “However, spreads should remain in positive territory.”
The Bank of Japan in March last year began unwinding its nearly decade-long negative interest rate policy –......
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10.01.26 - 20:15
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Bill Pulte says White House moving away from 50-year mortgage plan (The Hill)
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Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte indicated Friday that the Trump administration may be moving away from a 50-year mortgage proposal floated as a way to lower costs for homebuyers. “I think we have other priorities,” Pulte told reporters when asked if the White House was still considering the idea. His comments came just......
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10.01.26 - 13:00
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Labour should ′buy the supply′ of housing from landlords | Letters (The Guardian)
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Si'n Berry MP responds to the news that landlords claim they are being pushed out of the market. Plus a letter from Benjamin McKechnieMy heart obviously breaks for distressed buy-to-let landlords (Are UK buy-to-let landlords dying out – and should we care?, 5 January) but, if some landlords are feeling the pinch, a policy I have long pestered the government about is, by chance, tailor-made to help them. We need to replenish our decimated social housing stock, and part of the answer is what I call “buy the supply”.For years, I have called for funding to help councils increase the number of homes they can buy into their housing supply. Whether that is buying back right to buy homes, or snapping up suitable houses that are put on the market, this can achieve immediate, construction-risk-free social homes near existing schools, parks and health services. Continue reading......
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09.01.26 - 21:12
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Rosner, Gwinn on Jobs Report, Fed Policy, Trump′s Mortgage Bond Announcement (Bloomberg)
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Bond traders all but wiped out their bets that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates later this month after the unemployment rate for December fell more than expected. On "Bloomberg Real Yield", Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector fixed income investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Blake Gwinn, head of US rates strategy at RBC Capital Markets, speaks with Scarlet Fu about the jobs report, Fed monetary policy and President Trump's mortgage bond announcement. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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09.01.26 - 19:42
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FHFA director Bill Pulte on Trumps housing affordability push (CNBC)
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CNBC's "The Exchange" team is joined by Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to discuss President Trump's directive for government-sponsored entities to purchase $200 billion in mortgage bonds as part of his administration's push to lower costs and more....
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