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• Brexit vote could heat up Canadian real estate market - The Globe and Mail

  04-07-2016 22:06
  
  The Globe and Mail
  Brexit vote could heat up Canadian real estate market
  The Globe and Mail
  Realtors in Toronto and Vancouver are pitching Canadian cities as relatively safe property havens now that London, for years one of the world's leading targets of foreign capital, suddenly looks a lot riskier. Blame it on Brexit. “Brexit's good for us ...and more »
  
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• Standard Life Investments suspends trading in UK real estate fund - euronews

  04-07-2016 18:47
  
  euronews
  Standard Life Investments suspends trading in UK real estate fund
  euronews
  LONDON (Reuters) – Standard Life Investments, the fund arm of insurer Standard Life <SL.L>, suspended all trading in its UK real estate fund from 1100 GMT on July 4, it said on Monday. The decision was taken after an increase in redemption requests due ...
  SLI suspends UK Real Estate FundInternational Adviser
  SLI suspends trading on £2.7bn UK Real Estate fundFT Adviserall 51 news articles&
  
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• Ending self-regulation in Vancouver real estate won't solve the market crisis - The Globe and Mail

  04-07-2016 18:12
  
  The Globe and Mail
  Ending self-regulation in Vancouver real estate won't solve the market crisis
  The Globe and Mail
  Andrey Pavlov is a professor of finance at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University. Tsur Somerville is associate professor at the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate. On June 29, B.C. Premier Christy Clark announced steps to ...and more »
  
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• Gated Community Homes Demand Higher Prices

  04-07-2016 18:07
  
  Homes in gated communities command significantly higher prices – almost $30,000 on average – but these neighborhoods’ additional amenities can also reduce sale prices because they bring maintenance costs that outweigh the benefits of the amenities, according to recent research published by the American Real Estate Society (ARES).
  “This study provides clear evidence that homes in gated communities sell at a premium relative to comparable homes in non-gated c
  
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• Mortgage Rates Limbo Lower Now

  04-07-2016 18:03
  
  New data shows average fixed mortgage rates have dropped to new 2016 lows in the wake of the Brexit vote, according to Freddie Mac’s most recent Primary Mortgage Market Survey®. At 3.48 percent, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is only 17 basis points from its November 2012 all-time record low of 3.31 percent.
  “In the wake of the Brexit vote, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond plummeted 24 basis points,” says Sean Becketti, chief economist, Freddie Mac. “The 3
  
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• Signs of a top at the top of NYC's real estate market - CBS News

  04-07-2016 12:02
  
  CBS News
  Signs of a top at the top of NYC's real estate market
  CBS News
  Even during the nastiest political campaigns, the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York has been elegantly bipartisan: Every president since Herbert Hoover has laid his head at the stately Park Avenue hostelry. Rest assured such presidential trivia ...and more »
  
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• U.K. Home Builders, Real Estate Groups Fall as Construction PMI Slumps - TheStreet.com

  04-07-2016 11:22
  
  TheStreet.com
  U.K. Home Builders, Real Estate Groups Fall as Construction PMI Slumps
  TheStreet.com
  A closely watched gauge of sentiment in the sector enters contraction territory for the first time in more than three years. Laura Board. Follow. Jul 4, 2016 5:18 AM EDT. Post-Brexit malaise in the U.K. real estate and construction sectors increased on ...and more »
  
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• Real estate developer: 'This industry is a playground for self-starters' - VEGAS INC

  04-07-2016 11:03
  
  Real estate developer: 'This industry is a playground for self-starters'
  VEGAS INC
  Mike Chernine is a principal with Brass Cap Companies which specializes in real estate investment, development and management on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. By VEGAS INC staff (contact). Monday, July 4, 2016 - 2 a.m.. 1016. Mike Chernine assembled ...
  
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• Qatar's Barwa Real Estate Q2 net profit nearly trebles - Reuters

  04-07-2016 08:30
  
  ArabianBusiness.com
  Qatar's Barwa Real Estate Q2 net profit nearly trebles
  Reuters
  DUBAI, July 4 Qatar's Barwa Real Estate , one of the Gulf Arab state's largest listed developers, reported a near-trebling of second-quarter net profit on Monday, according to Reuters calculations. Barwa made a net profit of 550 million riyals ($151.1 ...
  Barwa Real Estate nearly trebles Q2 net profitArabianBusiness.comall 4 news articles »
  
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• Cracks in commercial real estate rally, but no collapse - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  04-07-2016 08:06
  
  Crowdfund Insider
  Cracks in commercial real estate rally, but no collapse
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  Pimco sees a storm brewing in the $15 trillion U.S. commercial real-estate market that it thinks will cause values to fall up to 5 percent in the next year. Other investors have more dire estimates for a coming sell-off. Their collective pessimism is ...
  What are the Positives & Negatives of Investing in Real Estate?Crowdfund Insider
  Tactics to Maximize Buy and Hold Real EstateModest Money (pre
  
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