A new retail report released by Jones Lang LaSalle emphasises that changes across the global retail banking environment continue to be driven by political, economic and technological trends. These trends will lead to continued bank expansion in frontier markets, offsetting the search for greater efficiency in developed markets.
John Macomber, Senior Lecturer in real estate, Harvard Business School, says, “I am wary of market timing by residential investors. If you need a home and can afford it, buy a home and hold it.”
RE/MAX, LLC has launched a new website, global.remax.com, which claims to be the first global resource for consumers, with hundreds of thousands of home listings in countries around the world.
Jaiprakash Associates (JPA), the Jaypee Group flagship, is on the look out for a strategic partner for its cement business, the third largest in the country.
There has been a substantial decline in foreign direct investments (FDI) in high-growth potential sectors like housing and real estate, construction activities and telecommunications in 2010-11.
It fair to say that current property development status is very different from previous ones.
Jones Lang LaSalle’s second quarter 2011 Global Market Perspective, predicts this year will be the strongest performance and real estate trade volume since the market height of 2007.
CoreNet Global’s recently released 2011 state-of-the-industry report on commercial real estate (CRE), there is good news to be found about 2010 and in the first quarter 2011.
Latin America and Asia remain the strongest real estate markets in the world but emerging markets in Europe, particularly Poland, show further improvements, according to the latest Global Commercial Property Survey.
Corporate confidence is boosting activity in top tier office markets around the world, leading to accelerating early cycle rental growth and robust capital value growth in prime assets, especially where new quality supply is limited, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s inaugural, quarterly Global Office Outlook report.