Housing sales across seven major cities are estimated to fall 47 per cent year-on-year to 1.38 lakh units this year on lower demand because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to property consultant Anarock. New housing supply, too, is likely to fall 46 per cent to 1.28 lakh units in 2020 in seve... Read more...
Britain said it would alter the algorithm it uses to select sites for new homes after critics said the old formula risked a building boom in the rural south at the expense of the industrial north. Britain faces an acute and nationwide shortage of affordable homes, affecting city and countryside a... Read more...
Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the Honourable Bardish Chagger, Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth, and Karen Redman, Chair of the Region of Waterloo, announced deta... Read more...
Hiranandani group, will invest around Rs 8,500 crore over the next three years to develop data centres and industrial parks across various cities as it is bullish on growth prospects in these two verticals. The Hiranandani group has around 2,000 acres of land bank across major cities for development... Read more...
Knight Frank in its latest research report - Global House Price Index Q3 2020 cited that India moves down 7 spots in the global home price index to 54th rank in Q3 2020 against 47th rank in Q3 2019, with a decline of 2.4% year-on-year (YoY) in home prices. The performance of India compared to previo... Read more...
Home-sharing giant Airbnb will enlist its global network of millions of participants to help house aid workers and health care staff working to fight COVID-19..Its planned program will find housing for workers who before the pandemic would have stayed in large-scale locations like gyms and now are s... Read more...
Despite the pandemic, housing markets are booming like never before. Real house prices (i.e., prices adjusted for inflation) rose in 43 out of the 55 world's housing markets which have so far published housing statistics, during the year to Q3, according to Global Property Guide’s research. Str... Read more...
U.S. Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced $4,842,051 in federal funding allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This federal funding will provide direct financial assistance for at-risk tenants to prevent homelessness ... Read more...
Belgian photographer Kris Provoost explores the striking juxtaposition of Hong Kong’s “hyper-dense” housing and natural landscapes in his latest photography series, Eden of the Orient that gives an insight into Hong Kong’s unique built environment, which is enveloped by greenery but recognis... Read more...
In his first report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Balakrishnan Rajagopal commended several States that have adopted temporary eviction bans, provided income support to help individuals to cover housing costs or taken steps to house the homeless. ... Read more...