Sentences with phrase «over house prices»

Boris Johnson accused of prioritising the super-rich in a controversial flat development, ahead of a «day of action» over house prices

Sentiment over house prices continued to worsen, the survey found, with 49 % more surveyors reporting a fall in October.

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The federal government's housing strategy will help some people, but it will do nothing to alter price dynamics, especially as the money will be spent over a decade.

One house listed at $ 650,000 attracted over a dozen bids and finally sold at a price of nearly $ 1 million.

Both cities are cooling — according to Realosophy, sales of freehold houses in the Greater Toronto Area are down 26 per cent over the past month — and prices could follow.

One of the outcomes of the much ballyhooed housing summit earlier this week between Sousa, his federal counterpart Bill Morneau and Toronto mayor John Tory was a commitment to «sharing relevant data more regularly between governments to enhance understanding,» a move that seems comically late after prices in the region have surged double - digits over the past few months.

Last Monday, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration planned to continue to fund the CSR payments, at least until the House v. Price case was over.

Among the dizzying house price surges in major cities, London climbed 20 percent over the past 12 months, while Dubai was up 36 percent.

The debate over what to do about housing prices is hobbled by a lack of reliable data.

Over in the House of Representatives, Democrats have also been hot on the tail of pharmaceutical companies that have jacked up the prices of some of their drugs, though they've making less headway than their Senate bipartisan counterparts.

The above series is Statistics Canada's New Housing Price Index (NHPI), which «measures changes over time in the contractors» selling prices of new residential houses, where detailed specifications pertaining to each house remain the same between two consecutive periods.»

Perth house prices have fallen 7.4 per cent over the past 18 months, making it the worst - performing housing market in the country.

Perth house prices rose 0.5 per cent last month, with an industry analyst suggesting the worst may be over for local dwelling values.

As Vancouver's house prices lift off into lotus land, the debate over just how much local real estate activity is fuelled by wealthy Asian investors is getting more heated.

The main reason for house prices rocketing over the last decade is due to Britain's major housing shortage.

The contractor is also a prime beneficiary of the White House's defense budget increase, as well as new arms deals with the likes of Saudi Arabia: Lockheed's stock price has risen some 26 % over the past year, handily beating the S&P, while revenue jumped 17 % in 2016.

Over the last 20 years, in spite of the housing crash, you would have done better with real estate if you bought in one of the 20 U.S. cities where prices have risen the most.

«The six - city Teranet National Bank House Price Index is estimated by tracking the observed or registered Canadian home prices over time which we've compared to the inverse of the Bank of Canada overnight lending rate.

But, according to new data from Moody's Analytics which analyzed housing prices in over 3,000 counties across the US, housing markets in some rural areas of the country might see a small boost.

The Comey broadside came during a busy morning for Trump on Twitter, which also saw him take shots at OPEC for causing «artificially» high oil prices and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi over taxes.

In preparation for testimony before the House of Commons finance committee in Ottawa on March 10, I pulled together some thoughts on three aspects of the impact of the oil - price crash on oil sands projects and policies, and I thought I'd share them with you here over this and the next couple of posts.

Since 2005, the Multiple Listing Service's Home Price Index has climbed 55 %, while housing prices have jumped about 90 % over the past decade.

While some housing market trackers report a slowdown — price increases averaging in the single digits year over year, compared with 15 - 30 % in recent years — in the nine cities tracked by market research firm Dragonomics, prices were down 4.9 % in April compared to a year earlier.

«If there really was a shortage of housing in the UK, rents like house prices, would be rising well in excess of the CPI, whereas they have broadly risen in line over the last ten years.»

This is familiar ground for the SocGen strategist, who argued back in April that the British government could «concrete over the entire length and breadth of the UK and house prices would still rise» arguing that Britain doesn't actually have a shortage of housing, just a big imbalance in supply and demand.

Overwhelmingly, houses in the suburbs are sold under asking price: yesterday, 148 were, compared to 15 sold over asking and 28 sold at asking.

Moody's says it took the step because of concerns over the banks» exposure to heavily indebted consumers and elevated housing prices.

«Slowing consumer demand combined with a surge in new home completions over the next several quarters will create more balance in the housing market and produce less upward pressure on home prices,» the association says in its release.

The national average house price for homes sold in February 2018 was just over $ 494,000, down five per cent from a year earlier.

A test for the shares looms on Wednesday, when Mylan CEO Heather Bresch testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee over price increases of EpiPen, an auto - injector of allergy medicine.

Just over two - thirds of this group owns a house, with an average equity stake that is a bit more than 30 % of the house price.

Existing home sales are up 9.7 percent over a year ago, new home prices touch record highs and Matt Phillips says the hidden indicators on housing are buried in Home Depot's «rock solid» earnings.

Home prices in New York's notoriously difficult housing market rose just 1.45 % over the past three years, while rents over that period rose by around 5 %.

The jump in home prices in Stockton and neighboring Lodi — up about 92 percent over the past five years — is dramatic evidence of the ripple effects of the Bay Area's tight housing market and the increasingly out - of - reach cost of living here.

Treasury prices rose on Tuesday, pushing yields higher, as fears over the U.S.'s protectionist policies makes a return on reports that the White House may crack down on Chinese investments in American tech companies.

Given the recent drop in correlation between flipping and price change, as well a steady increase in improvements in flipping hot spots like Las Vegas, there's not much reason to flip out over the recent uptick in house flipping.

House prices in London have slipped by 1.5 percent over the past year, according to Rightmove in the worst annual fall since 2009.

Canadian housing market prices soared over the past decade, with Ontario, home to capital city Ottawa and business center Toronto, in particular seeing strong demand from foreign buyers.

Elsewhere, housing prices have been little changed over recent months.

Indeed, the strong growth of investor housing loans has driven the growth in household debt (as a share of disposable incomes) over recent years and contributed to a rise in both housing prices and dwelling construction.

Low supply, high demand and increased prices cast a long shadow over the housing market — and it could get worse.

«Indeed, the median household currently has just over 150 percent of the income needed to buy a median - priced home, which compares to a long - run average of 125 percent,» wrote researchers at Capital Economics in a monthly report on the U.S. housing market.

Canada currently supplies over 1/3 of U.S. lumber consumption and if the current rate of growth in housing starts continues, the U.S. will need to increasingly rely on higher - priced imported lumber from outside of North America to fulfill their needs if they impose a quota restriction on Canadian lumber.

So long as house prices were rising, borrowers were able to refinance and roll over the loan.

Over the past 15 years, housing prices in Metro Vancouver have risen dramatically.

He will be discussing Seattle home prices and US housing data in great detail over lunch.

Over the month of May, Sydney house prices fell 1.3 per cent and Melbourne's prices dropped 1.7 per cent, according to Corelogic's latest Hedonic Home Value Index.

The left - leaning think tank said the finding was «worrisome» because Toronto and Vancouver have seen some of the biggest increases in cost of living over the same period, with the price of houses, in particular, skyrocketing by 37 per cent in Toronto and 62 per cent in Vancouver.

(c) suburban and exurban housing prices have been flat since 2008 in metro Vancouver, whereas (like in Toronto) prices have risen in the inner core, but I'm not sure I'd attribute that to the carbon tax as much as people deciding to value their time over the size of their home (and value the walkable, transit - oriented lifestyle).

It is looking increasingly clear that Australia has avoided the large falls in housing prices seen in some other countries over the past two years or so.