The U.K.’s average two-year fixed residential mortgage rate reached 6.66% today, the highest level since August 2008 when it soared to 6.94%. According to a Reuters analysis of data from Moneyfacts, today’s rate is slightly above the 6.65% from last October that was...
The Austrian capital of Vienna and the Syrian capital of Damascus are literally worlds apart, according to the new survey by The Economist of the world’s most livable cities. The survey rated living conditions in 173 cities across five categories: stability, health...
The median asking prices for homes in Ireland shot up by 4.3% during the second quarter, marking the first increase after three consecutive quarterly declines. On a year-over-year basis, asking prices are up 2.2% According to data from the Irish property resource...
The capital of the global luxury home market during the first quarter of this year was Dubai, according to a new data analysis from the real estate consulting group Knight Frank. Working with the definition of luxury homes being residences costing $10 million and up,...
Last month’s home sales and the average selling price in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) were above last year’s levels, according to data from GTA Realtors. The GTA market recorded 7,481 sales through the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board’s (TRREB) MLS System, up...
Russian citizens are on a real estate shopping spree – not in their own country, but in neighboring Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT, Russians have purchased 297 properties in Lithuania during the first half of this year. Most of the...
