After struggling for months to sell large parts of its land bank to repay part of its debt, Bangalore-based Sobha Developers Ltd has changed tack. The realty firm is now scouting for joint developments and looking to sell smaller plots

The private sector real estate players must reset their priorities so as to provide low-cost housing to the middle class and the poor. S Jaipal Reddey made the pint clear while taking charge of the urban ministry for the second

Credit rating agency CRISIL has started grading real estate valuers with the very first grading announced for a Mumbai based valuer. The grading of real estate valuers is expected to facilitate benchmarking for the valuers and also help banks, housing

Keen on matching supply with demand, real estate developers may spring up more than a hundred malls spread over 30-million sq ft in the country by end-2010, a report says. "Between now and 2010, an additional 31,846,504-square feet of mall

The economic slowdown has brought greater rationality to real estate prices. With prices correcting in overheated pockets of metros and tier II cities, residential real estate has become more affordable and the scales have tilted in buyers' favour. While an

The first quarter of 2009 saw Florida home sales rise, a trend which continued into April. That good news was driven by the fact that home prices across the state were down significantly. The new $8,000 tax rebate for first

The economic climate indicator for Portugal improved in May, according to the country's National Statistics Institute (INE). The number measures business confidence, and it moved from a record low of negative 3.0 in April to negative 2.5 for May....

The Dubai International Finance Center continues to maintain its status as the premier commercial property development in the emirate even as other areas suffer. The DIFC is home to many corporations and their regional offices as well as the Dubai

A new secure online system is making it much easier to do business in and with Cape Verde. The new system makes it easier to conduct business in several ways. For island businesses, the most important benefit is perhaps in

The pound has reached its highest level against the US dollar since November 2008, trading this morning at $1.61. The news has been welcomed by British buyers of property in Florida, as well as businesses importing from the States or

Most American homeowners are confident that they will not lose their homes to during the nationwide economic crisis, according to a three-week survey conducted by .

About 24 legislative bills are being discussed in the California Legislature to enhance statewide programs.

In the - metro area, grew in the first months of 2009 to its record level in two decades but surprisingly home prices grew also.

The San Francisco unit of housing nonprofit Habitat for Humanity has launched its first-ever program to help reduce the glut of in the Bay Area and at the same time help underserved families acquire an affordable home.

More and more positive signs are being seen in the California housing market despite the threats of unemployment, the state deficit and the expected arrival of another wave of .

After more than five years since Atlantic Yards came onto the public radar screen, the State Senate finally got around to holding a hearing on Friday, and from all reports it was the standard spectacle-over-substance event that has come to

We received a tip—which we've since been able to confirm—that there was a double shooting on Saturday night in the schoolyard at PS 56 in Clinton Hill. Evidently there was some kind of gathering (described by one neighbor as "insanely

While Williamsburg has been indelibly branded with the hipster label for the last decade or so, luckily the marketing campaigns of developers in the area have cast a much wider demographic net. To wit: When Steven Leeds and Rachel Hott,

When plans for the $64 million Coney Island concert arena championed by Borough Prez Marty Markowitz were earlier this year, there was the inevitable outcry from naysayers in the neighborhood. At first, the opposition said the money should be spent