Category: Global Real Estate
How to Buy a Home for $10,000
Right now, I smell the start of another potential revolution. Millennials are looking for new, innovative ways to solve their housing crisis.
Are Speculating Land Prices the Cause of Economic Boom/Bust Cycles?
New technology, better ways of doing things, all feed into a rising land price. And then people start to speculate in it. And there’s your cycle.
Have We Passed ‘Peak Prosperity’?
There are three important decisions in life: What you do…with whom you do it…and where you do it. What. Who. Where. Keep it simple.
Ireland’s and its‘Great Crumble’
Claptrap comes in many guises and disguises. Sometimes, it is based on inconsequential error. Sometimes, it is just bad judgment.
Affordable Housing Is within Our Grasp
This is not science fiction anymore. Companies are making and delivering 3D printed houses to the market place, now. There is more affordable housing now.
What We Can Learn from Japan’s Property Market
You can never lose money with real estate. Just ask the people in Japan. You can.
Real Estate Investment Trusts Special Structure
What does investment in real estate have to do with tax on cigars? Legislation creating a real estate investment vehicle was signed in the extension of excise tax on cigars.
‘It’s Disfigured, But Still Standing’…
A sad day in Paris. In this, the holy week of Christendom…one of its most sacred and beautiful monuments caught fire.
Is There a Better Way to Do Property?
Here in NZ, we lock people out of housing. We have the lowest rates of home ownership since just after the Second World War. And it’s starting to show.
What New Zealand Can Learn from the Venezuela Housing Crisis
Once upon a time, in a beautiful country…there was a shortage of homes. In stepped a benevolent authority figure. He reckoned he could sort this mess out. Here’s that country today…
Could This Be the Start To A Bear Market for the ASX?
The ASX 200 shed another 60-odd points on Tuesday, or 1% of its value. Is this another sign of global growth peaking? Probably.
The Bubble is Going to Burst
Guess where the greatest US real estate gains have been since the Great Recession and the massive QE surge? Florida and California…surprise, surprise! California real-estate prices have exploded because there’s very limited supply there and Florida prices shot to the
It’s Doomsday for Real Estate
Jeff was a small business owner in New Hampshire. One Tuesday afternoon, his neighbour called… ‘You need to get home NOW! There’s a dumpster in your yard, a padlock on your door, and a bunch of guys are ransacking your
Global Cities with Kooky Real Estate Prices
£593,369 — the average price of a house in London in January! (That’s about AU1,050,000.) AU$1.3 million plus — what 400 square foot condos go for in Vancouver! AU$2 million — the cost of a median house in San Francisco!