Corona crisis and compulsory housing obligation do not deter investors on the housing market | NOW

Private investors also bought many homes to rent out in the first half of this year, despite government measures to halt this. This is evident from data from the Land Registry and a tour of various providers of mortgages for home lessors, reports The Financial Times (FD) Tuesday. Small investors often buy homes and then … Read more

Escape from New York: Corona causes Manhattan’s housing market to collapse | 09/11/20

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The Corona crisis is making it increasingly difficult for apartment owners in the US metropolis of New York to find tenants. Although prices in Manhattan fell rapidly during the pandemic, there have recently been as many unlet apartments as there have been in years. The vacancy rate rose in August compared … Read more

Many more homes sold in four major cities, but upturn is temporary | NOW

In the third quarter, unexpectedly more homes were sold in the four major cities. As a result, it seems that the housing market is reviving, but the ING Economics Department warns Thursday that this revival is temporary. Ultimately, the corona crisis across the country will cool the housing market, the bank’s economists think. In the … Read more

Offices and shops increasingly converted into homes | NOW

Office buildings, schools and shops are increasingly being converted into homes. Last year, 12,500 new homes were built in this way. The previous year there were 12,200. This is evident from figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on Thursday. The so-called transformation homes accounted for nearly 13 percent of new homes last year. … Read more

ABN AMRO: House prices will rise in 2020, but will stabilize next year | NOW

The housing market is cooling more slowly than predicted so far and prices will not fall next year, but stabilize, writes ABN AMRO in a report on the housing market published on Thursday. The bank previously expected prices to fall by 2 percent next year. This means that the new figures are more positive than … Read more

“The Rhine-Main region will continue to develop strongly.”

Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Werner, Geschäftsführer Instone Real Estate Region – Copyright: Instone Real Estate -Aengevelt in conversation with Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Werner, Managing Director Instone Real Estate Region Rhein-Main, on the framework conditions on the housing market, COVID 19, economic diversity and creative impulses. Aengevelt:Which corona-related effects on the Rhine-Main housing market do you feel particularly? Ralf … Read more