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5 cities where houses are still cheap

09 Mar 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Despite rising home prices in many markets, buyers can still find plenty of deals in foreclosures and other distressed properties. $('a.plainsymbol').click(function (e) { e.preve...

When one home-insurance policy isn’t enough

16 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

For the owners of some residences, one home-insurance policy just doesn't cut it. To get full coverage on...

Retire Here, Not There: Montana

12 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

No Montana home would be complete, it seems, without hiking boots, skis and fishing poles. Residents and visitors alike can roam through the Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, ski relatively unc...

British Land buys London properties for £183.8M

12 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Getting a vacation-home loan: no day at the beach

09 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

It's still not easy getting a loan to buy a new vacation home. Tougher underwriting requirements and other...

Move out of housing stocks ASAP

08 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Homebuilders and housing stocks have been on a big run lately. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) is up over 40% in the last 12 months, more than tripling the broader S&P 500 index...

CBRE Group profit up on growth in property sales

07 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Home prices climb at fastest rate in 6 ½ years

06 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. house prices in December were 8.3% higher than a year earlier, the strongest advance since May 2006, CoreLogic said Tuesday. But the data also show the conside...

Liberty Property profit up 10% on higher revenue

06 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Equity Residential profit rises on rental income

06 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

What caused the flash crash at HDIL?

05 Feb 2013 | Source: Business Standard

Mumbai-based property developer HDIL's stock, once the darling of investors, came crashing down last month. It lost nearly 40 per cent of its value from Rs 120.85 on January 21 to Rs 74.65 on January...

Realty check

04 Feb 2013 | Source: Business Standard

Business Standard brings to you a snapshot of average current rates and unit sizes in localities that offer property in the price range of Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 2 crore....

Australian new home sales surge 6.2% in December

01 Feb 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Realty a safe bet for politicians to park black money

01 Feb 2013 | Source: Business Standard

Several Cabinet ministers, chief ministers and members of Parliament showed up at a wedding reception hosted by a builder recently. Nothing wrong with it, said a real estate insider, except that the ...

DLF hits two-year high

01 Feb 2013 | Source: Business Standard

DLF is trading higher by 2% at Rs 276 on the National Stock Exchange in an otherwise subdued market.

DLF Aman sale vaults it to Asia list for top hotel deals

31 Jan 2013 | Source: Business Standard

DLF, India’s largest real estate company, joined the Asian big league in hotel deals after it sold Aman Resorts at around Rs 1,600 crore to the latter’s founder, Adrian Zecha, recently....

Joydeep Ghosh: Why real estate prices won`t fall!

31 Jan 2013 | Source: Business Standard

It seems that everyone, except real estate developers, wants property prices to fall. But there is some serious doubt it will happen soon, or ever. What potential buyers can hope for at best, is a sl...

British Land: demand good, U.K. occupancy 97.7%

30 Jan 2013 | Source: Market Watch

Revised ready reckoner rates to pinch pockets

28 Jan 2013 | Source: Business Standard

Be prepared to pay more to buy a house in Mumbai. For, the Maharashtra government has increased the ready reckoner rates by 18-20 per cent in Mumbai and 5-30 per cent elsewhere in the state. This wil...

Housing market’s latest obstacle: Appraisals

26 Jan 2013 | Source: Market Watch

What's that $1 million house really worth? Depends who you ask. To determine the value of a property, appr...