Residential property sales are witnessing a gradual upturn in real estate markets across the globe. Thanks to low borrowing rates, developer incentives, and historic affordability, property sales are dawdling back to pre-pandemic levels. The sales numbers in 2021 are already quite promising in leadi...

No event in recent history has created an impact comparable to the sheer magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has redefined government and corporate policies, customer behaviors, businesses, technology, and industries, in unprecedented ways. For instance, although there is a general sense of downt...

According to brokerage firm Edelweiss Securities, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) parked a multi-month high of $497 million, in Indian Real Estate, in March 2021(1) – which is almost 35% of the total deployment in the sector. With the US administration led by President Biden announcing a US...

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The UAE confirmed its first COVID-19 case on 29 January, 2020. At the time, the nation was riding the Expo wave, engrossed in preparations for the upcoming mega event. The regional real estate sector, in particular, was the centerpiece of the event, due to its close ties with hospitality and the ser...

The National Centre for Statistics and Information has announced that the total traded value of real estate activity in the Sultanate of Oman exceeded the OMR 2-billion mark, in December 2020. According to preliminary figures, the Oman real estate sector witnessed transactions worth OMR 2.4 billion ...

The US economy, perhaps more so than any other globally, exemplifies consumer-driven growth. The spending habits of the average American account for around 70% of the US Gross Domestic Product(1). This is an economic model that the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic made untenable. Despite s...

Do you own a house in India, which you hope to sell? If so, you are probably aware that selling a property is currently as complicated as buying one, if not more so. In most growth markets, there are more sellers than buyers, and India is no exception. Prospective buyers have a lot of available [&he...