Investing
Survey: Now is best time to buy real estate
Brazil's thriving housing market might not last forever
Pending home sales unexpectedly dip in April
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It's already shaping up to be a summer of discontent for investors, so it's time to manage your expectations. To a global investor, there are conflicting signals everywhere: Although the U.S. economy continues to chug along like a tugboat, the "fiscal cliff" of massive tax increases and budget cuts still looms at the end of the year. Then there is the euro zone opera with the fat lady singing in Greece, Spain and elsewhere. China stimulus unnecessary, risks long-term damage
China does not need massive fiscal stimulus to stabilize growth and calm investors fretting that the global economy may slip back into a similar crisis as 2008-2009, top policy advisers said on Wednesday. Public Real Estate Execs received record salaries in 2011
Executives at public real estate companies received record high salaries in 2011, according to a report. In escape from Japan doomsday, capital takes flight
Hiroshi Kosaka has an unorthodox pitch for his realty business: instead of pictures of swanky condominiums his website features Japanese debt statistics and budget meltdown scenarios usually left to credit rating agencies. Bond prices firm on Spanish bank worries
Government debt prices rose on Tuesday as worries about contagion over the deterioration of Spain's banking system stoked demand for bonds and other low-risk investments. Brazil's PDG Realty shares rise on new offer
Shares of PDG Realty, Brazil's largest home building company, rose on Monday following an offer from a local private-equity firm. TEXT-S&P summary: Japan Retail Fund Investment Corp.
These strengths, however, are tempered by JRF's somewhat weak financial profile compared with its business profile, given that its debt-to-capital ratio remains slightly high, at a level near the upper end of the target range set under its financial policy. We view this as a risk factor for the J-REIT's credit quality. Goldman readies lower-risk return to Japan property
Goldman Sachs is returning to the Japanese property market after a four-year hiatus, looking to raise as much as 400 billion yen ($5 billion) over four years for a privately held real estate trust, a source said. Lehman to acquire rest of Archstone for $1.58 Bln
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said it would acquire the remaining 26.5 percent of apartment company Archstone that it didn't already own from Barclays Capital and Bank of America Corp for almost $1.6 billion, putting an end to a dispute with the banks over the price Canada home prices rise 5.2 pct in April: CREA
Canadian home prices climbed 5.2 percent in April from a year earlier, boosted by strong gains in the Toronto market as well as increases in Vancouver and Calgary, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) said on Friday.
