Why condo sales in Tokyo crashed to 24-year low Even with fixed mortgage rates at record lows, the Japanese shy away from apartment purchases Minato-ku, Tokyo. Krunja/Shutterstock The sales volume of new Tokyo apartments hit 13,303 units…
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Why nobody wants to buy celebrity homes A basketball court in a basement? No thanks View over the Hollywood Hills in California. FiledIMAGE / Shutterstock.com Not even a name like Michael Jackson or Julia Roberts is enough…
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More Sri Lankans are abandoning tradition and leaving home … meaning thousands of units are set to crowd the residential market in the coming years Building of Cargills Ceylon PLC and HSBC in Colombo. PhilipYb Studio /…
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Think U.S. Home Prices Are Rising Too Fast? It’s Much Worse in China Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Anyone who has tossed a hat into the U.S. home-buying fray lately has most likely been forced to deal with…
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The Real Reasons Behind America’s Housing Inventory Dilemma Jeff Farmer/iStock; Arthur Kwiatkowski/iStock; malerapaso/iStock Now that we’re in the homestretch of 2016 (really, we are!), consumers are starting to plan for 2017, especially if they want to buy…
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Renting Property Was Just as Difficult 2,000 Years Ago as It Is Now Toby Adamson/Getty Images; realtor.com First and last month’s rent wasn’t Greek to these guys. Archaeologists unearthed what’s one of the oldest documented rental agreement—in…
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