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Savills analysis finds over-60s hold the majority of UK housing wealth, with intergenerational equity transfer expected to become a prominent feature of the housing market.
Stagflation concerns are rising and posing risks to real estate markets.
Single-family permitting activity continued to weaken through the first half of 2026, while multifamily permitting remained somewhat stronger compared with the same period last year. Over the first six months of the year, the number of single-family permits issued nationwide reached 465,301. Compared with the same…
Analysis of three macroeconomic drivers—demographic trends, debt levels, and currency debasement—reshaping the Canadian real estate market.
Analysis comparing economic and commercial real estate industry trends between Canada and the United States.
Korea's prime minister pledges to make housing supply the top priority, visiting construction sites weekly and reporting progress at monthly Cabinet…
Korea's steel, petrochemical and engineering firms are pivoting to AI data center infrastructure, from specialty steel to energy-storage materials, to…
Experts gave mixed reviews of Korea's Aug. 13 housing supply package, praising faster public-land construction but doubting it can stabilize Seoul prices…
Korea will introduce 20-year private rental housing and a jeonse deposit trust that pays landlords 4-5% annual returns, part of an Aug.
Roundup covering government shutdown impacts, GSE workforce reductions, and industrial real estate market pricing trends.
Credit conditions on loans for residential Land Acquisition, Development & Construction (AD&C) were still tightening in the second quarter of 2026, according to NAHB’s quarterly survey on AD&C Financing. The net easing index derived from the survey posted a second-quarter reading of -12.0 (the negative number…
Houston's oil-and-gas industry has built an ecosystem that extends beyond energy. For proof of that, look no further than Bristol Myers Squibb's new pharmaceutical plant. The post How Houston’s Biggest Industry Created Opportunities for Another appeared first on Texas Real Estate Research Center .
Residential building material prices, excluding energy, rose 0.4% in July and were up 5.0% from a year ago. Energy prices fell again in July but remained significantly higher than a year ago. Meanwhile, prices for services were down 0.3% over the month but were 6.2% higher than a year ago. The Producer Price Index…
Seoul's Yeongdeungpo District won unanimous backing to restrict data centers in residential zones, aiming to revise city ordinances and the Building Act.
The latest homeownership rate declined to 65% in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Census’s Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS). The homeownership rate was unchanged from a year ago, and not statistically different than the rate in the first quarter of the year (65.3%). While this was a modest quarterly…
Korea's August 13 housing plan names three new public housing districts for 27,000 homes and fast-tracks stalled projects, but defers Gangnam greenbelt…
South Korea unveils the Aug. 13 housing plan to supply 100,000 homes, designating three new public housing districts in Seoul and Gyeonggi.
Sellers outnumbered buyers by 51% in July—just shy of December’s record high—giving buyers more negotiating power. The number of buyers in the market fell to a record low of about 967,000 amid historically high housing costs, almost half a million fewer than the 1,463,000 sellers. Nearly 80% of major U.S. metros…
Abu Dhabi's real estate market is experiencing growth driven by record transaction volumes and the arrival of international brands.
The housing market is gaining slight momentum as the summer winds down, but demand remains subdued overall. U.S. pending home sales edged up 0.4% week over week during the four weeks ending August 9 on a seasonally adjusted basis, offering a small boost to this summer’s sluggish housing market. Mortgage-purchase…
LH President Lee Sung-hoon inspected the Incheon Gyeyang A2 and A3 blocks, the first occupancy site among Korea's third-wave new towns, urging flawless…
Married couples jointly owning one home in Korea are not multiple-home owners, but a higher assessment ratio from 2028 can raise their real estate tax…
Retrofitting Atlantic Canada’s aging homes, apartment and office buildings could become an important tool for the region to reach net-zero emissions over the next two decades. It also could cost more than $240 billion. ReCover, an Atlantic Canadian deep retrofit accelerator based in Dartmouth, estimates that…
Experts back the direction of Korea's Aug. 13 housing supply plan but doubt execution speed and call its rental-market fix inadequate.
Analysis of the intersection between energy infrastructure and digital real estate sectors and their market dynamics.
President Lee Jae-myung called real estate a core problem for South Korea, vowing an all-out housing supply push and pledging to revise laws to secure…
Brazil's National Construction Index (Sinapi), calculated by IBGE, rose 0.44% in July, indicating a deceleration in construction activity.
Brazil's National Construction Index (Sinapi) accelerated to 1.19% in June, according to the official statistics agency IBGE.
Brazil's National Civil Construction Index (Sinapi) increased 0.36% in May, with notable movement in the Southern region.
Brazil's National Construction Index (Sinapi) reported a 0.36% variation in May, according to official statistics from IBGE.
Brazil's National Construction Index (Sinapi) reported a 0.72% variation in April, according to IBGE.
Brazil's National Civil Construction Index (Sinapi) rose 0.72% in April, with the Northeast region showing notable increases in construction costs.
Brazil's National Civil Construction Index (SINAPI) rose 0.37% in March 2026, with notable performance in the Northeast region.
Brazil's national construction cost index (Sinapi) rose 0.37% in March 2026 according to official statistics from IBGE.
Brazil's National Construction Index (Sinapi) advanced 0.23% in January 2026, declining 1.31 percentage points from the prior period.
Brazil's National Civil Construction Index (SINAPI) advanced 0.23% in February, with notable cost increases in the North region.
Korea's Land Ministry unveiled a plan to speed up housing supply, adding 27,000 homes near Seoul and cutting the site-to-construction timeline to 37…
Samsung Electronics opens its first FläktGroup plant in Pune, India, to make data center cooling systems and target the growing Asia-Pacific B2B market.
Seoul apartment listings surged past 64,000 after the Aug. 3 tax reform, but triple curbs on sales, financing and leasing are freezing transactions.
Why we keep an eye on the housing-debt-to-income ratio.
Knight Frank's monthly tracking of key economic and financial metrics impacting property markets.
Knight Frank India and NAREDCO jointly publish a sentiment index capturing perceptions and expectations across the real estate sector.
Glenigan reports a significant decline in residential construction activity with year-on-year contraction.
Knight Frank analyzes leading economic indicators to assess market resilience and identify emerging risks.
Analysis of economic recovery patterns and divergent outcomes following pandemic lockdowns in a UK city context.
Knight Frank analysis of demographic trends and their impact on residential development in Riyadh.
Q&A with CMHC's deputy chief economist discussing factors behind and implications of Canada's slowing housing starts.
Led by declines in gasoline and diesel prices, inflation eased for the second consecutive month after reaching a three-year high in May. As energy prices moderated, shelter resumed its role as the largest driver of headline inflation, accounting for one-third of the annual increase and over two-thirds of the…
Mortgage application activity slowed in July amid continuation of the war in Iran. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Market Composite Index, a measure of total mortgage application volume, declined 6.6% month-over-month in July on a seasonally adjusted basis. Compared to a year ago, total mortgage…
Some 10,000 Seoul apartment leases expire this year as a tax overhaul pushes landlords to reclaim rented homes, deepening fears of a jeonse supply crunch.
AI data centers are being reassessed as strategic business assets, with GPU utilization, power and cooling efficiency now key measures of competitiveness.
About 10,000 'two-plus-two' jeonse leases expire in Seoul by year-end as landlords reclaim homes, squeezing rental supply and lifting deposits.
Mortgage rates at 6.69% are not high. Inflation is high.
Existing home sales continued to slow in July as record-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates weighed on buyers. Mortgage rates resumed an upward trend after the ceasefire ended in early July. Heightened geopolitical uncertainty and an increasingly hawkish stance from the Fed pushed rates to nearly 6.7% last…
Demand for all types of residential mortgages was weaker, while lending standards for most were essentially unchanged in the second quarter of 2026, according to the recent release of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS). For commercial real estate (CRE) loans, lending standards for construction &…
Knight Frank's examination of Kenya's economic performance and analysis of financial, industrial, retail, and commercial real estate markets during the first half of 2016.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management assesses real estate as offering attractive relative value in a resilient macroeconomic environment marked by inflation, hawkish central banks, and constrained supply.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management analyzes how water scarcity is emerging as a critical constraint on industrial expansion, permitting, and capital returns across mines, semiconductor plants, and data centers in water-stressed regions.
Analysis of how elevated oil prices and energy costs affect industrial real estate demand, with near-term headwinds from trucking-dependent logistics and medium-term tailwinds from supply-chain resilience, defense spending, and e-commerce growth.
A recurring market intelligence publication tracking conditions and capital flows across U.S. commercial real estate sectors.