By: Andrea Hopkins OTTAWA: Canadian housing starts rose unexpectedly in August, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp said on Monday in a report that boosted expectations for economic growth in… Read more »
By: Chris Arsenault TORONTO: Cities should use subsidies and taxes to get homeowners to protect themselves from climate change, experts said, as millions have been displaced by massive storms across… Read more »
By: Andrea Hopkins OTTAWA: Toronto home sales plummeted in August from a year earlier and prices were down more than 20 percent from April as government moves to cool a… Read more »
By: Ruairi Casey London: The mayor of London plans to spend 250 million pounds ($326 million U.S.) buying land to tackle the city’s affordable housing crisis, which he described on… Read more »
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian superstar Neymar has moved into a five-storey, 1,000-square- metre (10,800 square foot) mansion in the posh western Paris suburb of Bougival, sources said today. The town… Read more »
By: Tom Westbrook SYDNEY: Private equity giant Blackstone Group cancelled the sale of a A$3.5 billion ($2.8 billion) Australian shopping mall portfolio after it was unable to find a buyer,… Read more »
By: Leah Schnurr OTTAWA: Vancouver home sales and prices jumped in August from the year before on heightened demand for less expensive condominiums and town homes, the Real Estate Board… Read more »
By: Anu Bararia BENGALURU: Canada’s roaring housing market is likely to cool off a bit later this year and into next thanks to government measures aimed at cooling demand in… Read more »
By: Wayne Cole SYDNEY: Home prices in Australia’s major cities rose only marginally in August as Sydney’s blistering run stalled, a tentative sign of cooling that would be a relief… Read more »
By: Ryan McNeill |Duff Wilson At least $23 billion worth of property has been affected by flooding from Hurricane Harvey just in parts of Texas’ Harris and Galveston counties, a… Read more »