Sentences with phrase «economy than real estate»

There is no better investment, no better thing to buy, no better hedge in any economy than real estate.
In fact, stock market weakness generally has less impact on the real economy than real estate weakness.

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What is making the situation worse in terms of growth, says Poloz, is that boomers in the developed world have been putting their money into real estate rather than investments that can stimulate the economy.
It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.
«The economy here is much more diversified than it was, say, 20 years ago and not as vulnerable to fluctuating commodity prices,» explains Michael Kehoe of Fairfield Commercial Real Estate.
Insolvent homeowners in Europe face a lifetime of literal debt peonage to make the banks (even foreign banks, which dominate Central Europe's post-Soviet economies) whole on their bad debts as the continent's real estate prices are plunging even more steeply than those in the United States — some 70 percent in Iceland and Latvia.
The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.
Other than the recent housing bubble, real estate is a relatively safe asset class that appreciates along with inflation and the economy.
By preventing a real estate bubble, this will hold down the economy's housing and commercial space - rental charges, thereby adding doubly to China's creation of a structural cost advantage over industrial economies that have turned into finance - capitalist economies dominated by the FIRE sectors rather than industry.
One reason why it is so important to describe real estate behavior in terms of economic theory is that a rising proportion of the economy's industrial investors are behaving more like real estate investors than like the textbook models based on manufacturing.
America's housing crisis generated nearly 4 million foreclosures and devastated residential equity for more than six years, but it also created a powerful new positive force in the nation's residential real estate economy.
But when that happened, Canadian households were far less indebted than they are today, and the Canadian economy did not rely nearly so much on the finance, real estate and construction sectors for growth.
But what has most intrigued Europe's ruling class is its tax favoritism that has created a Bubble Economy (euphemized as a Tiger Economy to make a debt - leveraged real estate bubble appear as if it were a road to wealth rather than to debt peonage).
Australian real estate agents expect Chinese New Year to be a busier period than usual as its stable economy and regular returns are still attracting Chinese buyers, reports Domain (27... Per saperne di più >
«The sources of demand that are pushing prices higher are many-fold and the sources of investment speculation... in the real estate part of our economy are many-fold and more domestic than foreign.»
Thanks to a healthy economy and a booming real estate market, REITs have produced sizzling returns over the past five years, with most achieving gains of more than 20 % a year.
In today's economy and real estate market some buyers are taking a closer look at buying a foreclosure property more than ever before.
@JBentley — The cost of real estate (such as residential property, and the real estate used for retailing, restaurants, office space, and manufacturing) is already such a large fraction of the economy that the share of a region's economy that is spent on rent (or rent substitutes, such as the cost of home ownership) can not greatly exceed the region's economic growth rate for more than one or two business cycles.
The evening's presentation will highlight both macro and micro economic trends that point towards an upcoming recession and a volatile economy where some real estate sectors and regions remain safer than others.
In particular, South Africa's commercial real estate will be affected more by the sharing economy in the future than by ultra-modern and ultra-seek urban design with smart technologies and the Internet of Things.
Maxim Oreshkin of the Russian Ministry of Economy (who is responsible for the development of the real estate industry) says this will pose another threat to real estate brokers because large banks have many more resources to check the legality of the deal than a small real estate firm or a private broker.
Increasing global economic integration makes the opportunities in international real estate investment more compelling than ever before — especially given weakness and slow growth in the domestic real estate markets of most developed economies.
I am at a loss to name another industry that drives our economy to a greater extent than real estate.
No other market drives the economy greater than that of real estate.
The local economy is expected to add 3,645 new jobs by the end of 2017, much fewer than the 5,601 jobs created in 2016, according to a first - quarter report by real estate services firm Colliers International.
Houston's economic recovery is happening at a slow pace, but any near - term improvement in its office market has less to do with the energy sector than growth in other industries and overall confidence in the economy, according Kevin Roberts, president of Southwest operations with real estate services firm Transwestern.
CREB (the Calgary Real Estate Board) says in a statement that its members «believe that a healthy city has more than just a robust economy and abundant employment opportunities.»
With vacation and investment properties accounting for more than one - third of home sales last year, it's clear households see real estate not only as a good investment but also as a sound alternative to paper equity shares whose value swings along with the economy, company management skill, and market competition.
But there's a silver - lining: «When we compare past studies, an interesting trend emerges: Executives and broker - owners are less confident in the global economy and far more confident in their local economies at the end of each year than they were at the beginning,» says Renwick Congdon, CEO of Imprev, an automated marketing service for real estate.
«Having the GAO look closely at the real estate industry gives us the opportunity to show that it's one of the most competitive in the country and that it has sustained the economy for more than a decade.
«Now, more than ever because of the failing economy, real estate professionals are more inclined to put up with difficult buyers.
As the real estate development economy continues to awaken, we are seeing development take a different form than what we were seeing during the previous boom period.
«In the current economy, we have seen a change in scenario where real estate agents may earn less than the minimum wage.
A lot more people lost a lot more money in real estate in Phoenix than in Dallas and that slowed the Phoenix economy and still does.
There is no better time to purchase real estate than in today's economy as prices have evened out, and the inventory proves that it is indeed a buyer's market.
Zillow, the online real estate marketplace and research site, reported last week that more than 1 owner in 10 in the United States continues to have negative equity, but that figure has plunged by nearly two - thirds during the past 48 months as the economy has strengthened.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 400,000 real estate jobs in today's economy.
If you are skeptical of that strong statement, tell me, where else can you get the following combination of investing conditions: A rock solid local economy 1 percentage point away from full employment (5.8 %), high rental demand, minimal vacancy rates and rising rental prices, price to rent ratios on new (or less than 6 yrs old) properties under 8 and a steady and reliable local real estate market in full bloom?
May 1, 2016 Smart Cities in India will Share Corporate Real Estate as Profession Emerges As a developing economy with a rapidly growing population, India will see the development of smart cities, but they will be different than other smart cities already taking root around the world.
Transparency, choice, centralization, aggregation of information, more knowledge and self - service are trends of an Internet driven economy, and these trends will impact the imbalance that is described above, albeit more slowly than in most other industries — because of the weight and volume of organized real estate.
Local economy is strong, but real estate investor demand could trail larger markets and that capital for investment and development could be harder to obtain than in other markets
Alpharetta real estate sales tend to be more stable than some of the surrounding areas in Metro Atlanta because of the strong local economy, good schools, lower crime statistics and demographics so if we are seeing lower trends here, we would likely see them in other areas of Atlanta as well.
«The US economy and real estate markets are in much better shape than most other countries, but global economies and capital markets are increasingly inter-related.
With election day less than a month away, Andrew Nelson, chief economist of Colliers International, one of the world's biggest commercial real estate brokerages with 16,000 agents in 66 countries, expresses disappointment that the economy hasn't attracted much attention in the campaign, except for globalization and talk of protectionism to save American jobs.
Despite oil's negative effects on Houston real estate, experts say the market is in better shape than in other downturns thanks to a more diverse economy.
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