housing market

HONG KONG (Mar 11): Hong Kong faces the likelihood of rising borrowing costs after the city’s de facto central bank intervened to defend its currency peg for the first time since August.

SINGAPORE (Nov 30): Singapore is getting ready for polls. Because a single party has ruled uninterrupted since 1959, the real importance of the next election lies in the rare leadership transition that will take place afterwards.

SINGAPORE (Apr 16): Singapore home sales jumped to the highest in four months in March amid signs the property market is recovering.

SINGAPORE (Feb 23): Singapore's decision to increase stamp duty on expensive home purchases is unlikely to derail a recovery in the city-state's housing market, with modest price gains still expected this year, the head of a property developers&#3

SINGAPORE (June 16): Chalk up another sign Singapore’s housing market is recovering: redevelopment deals are back.

(June 6): The chief executive of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group has joined the chorus of voices warning of risks in Australia’s surging housing market, though he said the probability of an outright crash is “really low.”

WASHINGTON (Nov 23): US home resales rose in October to their highest level in more than 9-1/2 years as homebuyers, buoyed by an improving labor market, took advantage of still-low mortgage rates to snatch up properties after many were shut out during the

SHANGHAI (Sept 29): This year is seen going down as the worst since 2011 for China’s stock investors as the memory of last summer’s rout lingers and speculative buying switches to the housing market.