NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax(GST) could bring in transparency in the functioning of the real estate sector and even reduce the cost of ownership of homes for buyers, especially if the GST rate is lower than all the current rates put together, said builders and tax consultants. These ... Read More »
WASHINGTON — In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton wrongly implied Donald Trump has proposed banning Islam in America and sketched out a plan for defeating Islamic State militants that merely mirrors what the U.S. is already trying to do. Clinton spoke Thursday night to the largest TV ... Read More »
It is probably not news to most that the red zone is important. I’ll spare you the clichés about it being the most valuable real estate in football and instead point out that we never hear about an organization adding an athletic receiver to serve as a “midfield specialist.” You ... Read More »
Donald Trump launched a fresh takedown of Hillary Clinton on Friday, with the Republican presidential nominee leading the effort and dispatching his surrogates to join the attack. The real estate mogul maintained the blitz, even as Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, kicked off a post-Democratic National ... Read More »
During the past several years, public concern has increased in the Greater Vancouver Regional District (the “GVRD”) over the steep rise in home prices. For many residents of the GVRD, owning a home has become beyond their reach. The affordability and availability of rental units is also becoming increasingly problematic ... Read More »
e price of a ticket to the new “Ghostbusters” will buy you not just one happy ending but two. After the paranormal investigators played by Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Kristen Wiig have finished freeing New York from supernatural domination, the grateful mayor offers them unlimited resources to ... Read More »
There were several times during this week’s Democratic National Convention when delegates could be excused if they thought they’d stumbled into the wrong party’s meeting. For President Obama, one of GOP candidate Donald Trump’s greatest sins was replacing Ronald Reagan’s visionof “a shining city on a hill” with “’a divided ... Read More »
A federal crackdown on tax cheats in Vancouver’s sizzling housing market — which is acting like a flame to speculators, real estate predators and foreign cash flow — has critics calling on B.C. to demand Ottawa do more to help combat the “out-of-control” real estate market. “It’s not clearcut to say that ... Read More »
T. Rowe Price has been managed since its 1997 inception by David Lee, using a strategy that’s focused on the long term and thoroughly grounded in fundamentals. With the help of a small team of analysts, Lee seeks out REITs (and some real estate operating companies) that are managed well, ... Read More »
Short sellers are moving into the UK real estate sector in greater numbers as investor sentiment sours after the referendum, according to Markit. Although shorting interest in the sector has been increasing since the start of the year, it leapt by a further 43 percent once ‘Brexit’ was announced. Bearish ... Read More »
Sales of prime London real estate jumped 38 percent in the week after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, as a slide in the British pound attracted bargain hunters seeking a rare opportunity to buy the city’s property at a discount. The number of residential real estate sales ... Read More »
A total of AED57 billion ($15.5 billion) was invested in Dubai’s real estate market in the first half of 2016, the latest figures from Dubai Land Department (DLD) show. The figure was invested by 26,000 investors from 149 countries, the DLD said, with GCC nationals contributing the lion’s share – ... Read More »
