Indian real estate, these days is buzzing with two words – affordable housing. Government’s initiatives towards achieving their dream of ‘Housing for all by 2020’ have paved way for this revolution. Today, sector is flooded with affordable homes being launched by every developer to get a pie of this big ... Read More »

In last week’s Notebook, we predicted that multifamily property sales in the Twin Cities metro are likely to eclipse last year’s record for total sales volume and that many of those deals are by well-funded national investment firms. Aeon, a Twin Cities nonprofit organization, has also been an active and ... Read More »

The Fair Housing Act (the “Act”) unequivocally prohibits intentional discrimination by housing providers, but last year, the United States Supreme Court ruled that housing providers may run afoul of the Act, even absent the intent to discriminate. In the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in TX Dept. of Community Affairs v. ... Read More »

U.S. housing starts slipped in May as the construction of multi-family housing units dropped, but further gains in building permits suggested a rebound that would continue to support economic growth in the second quarter. Groundbreaking fell 0.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.16 million units, the Commerce ... Read More »

The biggest complaint in the spring homebuying season was simply that there weren’t enough homes to buy. Demand is strong for housing, but listings are low and getting lower. That supply strain has put strong upward pressure on home prices in most markets, but apparently not in all markets, according ... Read More »

Switzerland´s housing cycle appears to be peaking. Switzerland’s economic growth is weak, and the government is trying to cool the overheated property market – with success: Owner-occupied apartment prices were up by only 1.63% (2.98% inflation-adjusted) in 2015, far from the average growth of 5.4% from 2009 to 2012, according ... Read More »