China Property Woes Deepen With Vanke Slump, Country Garden Halt
One of China’s biggest property firms delayed its earnings report while another posted a record profit decline as the nation’s real estate crisis shows no signs of easing.
Latest Videos
The information you requested is not available at this time, please check back again soon.
One of China’s biggest property firms delayed its earnings report while another posted a record profit decline as the nation’s real estate crisis shows no signs of easing.
The owners of Saks Fifth Avenue are in talks to raise financing to bolster the cash portion of an offer to buy competitor Neiman Marcus, according to people familiar with the matter, moving two of America’s biggest high-end department stores closer to a deal after years of on-and-off courtship.
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.’s revenue jump — due to strong capital markets and rebounding investment banking — bodes well for the bigger banks due to report in weeks to come.
Blackstone Inc. sold 48 warehouses in Southern California to Rexford Industrial Realty Inc. for $1 billion.
Plunging demand for commodity offices in the US is driving growth for the highest-quality properties, a Morgan Stanley executive said.
Dec 21, 2016
BNN Bloomberg
Housing affordability continues to deteriorate in Canada despite measures taken by the government to cool the market, according to a new RBC Economics report.
The Housing Trends and Affordability Report released Wednesday showed housing costs in the third quarter of 2016 ate up about 44 per cent of median household income in Canada, even though overall resale activity has cooled.
Single-detached houses remained the most unaffordable homes across the country, up 1.3 percentage points, followed by condos, which increased 0.8 percentage points.
The most unaffordable region in the quarter was the Greater Toronto Area – the first time in almost two years that Vancouver didn’t record the highest level of affordability erosion in the country. But Vancouver maintained the highest home ownership costs, at 92 per cent of household income.
RBC Senior Economist Robert Hogue told BNN in an interview that we will have to wait even longer to see relief in Vancouver.
“Some would argue [housing prices] would never come back down to Earth in terms of standards we have in other markets across Canada,” he said.
He added that in order for Vancouver prices to come closer to the national level, the market would require “quite a price correction,” which he says at this stage is “very unlikely.”
The B.C. government implemented various measures throughout the year to help cool housing, including the 15 per cent foreign homebuyers’ tax and the first-time buyers’ land transfer tax.
Still, Hogue said there doesn’t seem to be any significant slowdown in activity.
Methodology: The RBC Housing Affordability Measures show the proportion of median pre-tax household income that would be required to service the cost of mortgage payments (principal and interest), property taxes, and utilities based on the average market price for single-family detached homes and condo apartments, as well as for an overall aggregate of all housing types in a given market.