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In a competitive market, careful planning and research will increase the chance of you buying a property you want and can afford.
Renting an affordable apartment in Dublin has become an impossible mission.
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Whether renting or buying, many lifelong residents can no longer afford to live in Europe’s cities. Will this change any time soon?
The price is not right.
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In the middle of a cost of living crisis, new-build prices are up by nearly a fifth in the past year alone.
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It’s now common knowledge loans and gifts from family are a large part of breaking into the housing market. But how is parental financial support being used in other areas?
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The questions you should be asking a mortgage broker.
The government’s response to the housing crisis has been to build more homes.
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England’s housing strategy will consume our entire carbon budget by 2050 – there are alternatives, but they face political and economic barriers.
People’s ability to buy property is at a record low.
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History indicates house prices are more likely to see a correction and prolonged stagnation, not a crash
European countries have embraced housing co-ops for decades to address housing affordability. Why not Canada?
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In a period when homelessness and housing costs have reached crisis levels, it’s time to look at housing co-operatives as a potential game-changer.
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Our surroundings will be very different over the duration of a typical mortgage.
A house in Ottawa that sold over the listing price.
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More housing supply doesn’t mean lower prices. If policy-makers want to make homes more affordable, they must tackle developers who drive up prices and consider taxing capital gains on homes.
A four-year-old girl plays house as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau makes a campaign stop in Mississauga, Ont., where he spoke of his party’s policy on affordable housing.
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The fact that Canadian house prices have risen far beyond rental rates tells us that it’s due to financial factors alone — not a lack of supply. House prices are asset prices.
Never this cheap again?
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House prices have been stronger than most had expected at the start of the pandemic, but can they continue rising?
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The pandemic delivered a political year like no other. The risk now is that the country returns to a ‘normal’ that wasn’t working to start with.
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New Zealand’s housing market is ill designed to create the surpluses that would force down values. Only the state can change that.
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Millions of Australians are struggling with unaffordable housing. It’s a systemic problem that’s been decades in the making, and only concerted system-wide reforms will fix it.
A drop in prices of 0.5% is no drop at all.
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Houses will be worth more or less what they would have been, if Labor’s policies are adopted, NSW Treasury analysis says.
On the first Tuesday of every month but one the Reserve Bank has to make a decision. This time the inflation rate is zero.
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Interest rate cuts don’t work like they used to, and they help us put off the hard things we need to do to improve our lives.
$3.5 trillion is about to be poured into a small number of hands over the next two decades.
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Four fifths of the coming bonanza of bequests are set to go to the top one fifth of recipients.
When prices are falling, fewer home owners will choose to sell if they can afford to stay put.
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It’s natural to assume that a downturn in the property market is good news for people who’ve been priced out of the market. In practice, they might still not be able to buy a home.
We’re unpredictable, but this could be a one-off adjustment.
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Prices are off, but from unprecedented highs. It could be a one-time adjustment.