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The Agency Opens Fifth Spanish Office in Madrid

by Phil Hall | Jun 3, 2025

The brokerage also has Spanish offices in Marbella, Costa Blanca North, Mallorca, and Barcelona. Continue Reading The Agency Opens Fifth Spanish Office in Madrid

Real Estate Agency Slammed for Offering Week’s Free Rent in Exchange for 5-Star Google Reviews

by Phil Hall | Jun 2, 2025

Oddly, the business did not suffer from bad reviews – it enjoyed an average rating of 4.8 stars from 851 reviews prior to the story going live. Continue Reading Real Estate Agency Slammed for Offering Week’s Free Rent in Exchange for 5-Star Google Reviews

Leora Ruzin Tapped as Editor of Weekly RE News

by Rick Grant | Feb 6, 2023

SALT LAKE CITY -- February 6, 2023 -- Weekly Real Estate News, a publication dedicated to providing the best real estate and mortgage industry news and information available anywhere to the more than 1.25 million industry professionals who rely on it, has announced...

How do mortgage overpayments work? Is it worth it, is it better to overpay mortgage monthly or in lump sum

by Third Party | Feb 6, 2023

Source: National World --- The Bank of England raised interest rates once again on Thursday (2 February). Its base rate now sits at a fresh 14 year high of 4% - 0.5 percentage points higher than the level it was set at in December 2022. Designed to bring down...

Victims across Ontario losing their homes in mortgage scam

by Third Party | Feb 6, 2023

Source: Bradford Today --- A veteran police detective addresses an elderly woman on the front steps of her Collingwood home. He’s holding a cashed cheque for $140,000, money he already knew she had been scammed out of. “I’m Detective Sergeant Jason Lloyd with the...

AFP money-laundering bust highlights Australia’s gaping real estate vulnerability

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: ABC News --- As financial sector lobby groups frequently note, the banking industry is highly regulated. There's an A-focused alphabet soup of regulators to satisfy – ASIC, APRA, ACCC, AUSTRAC – oversight bodies like AFCA and BCCC, and then pesky journalists...

‘Our mortgage got so high we put off having a baby’

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: BBC News --- Alex Czok and her husband Tom Beech had hoped to start a family this year but when their mortgage went up by hundreds of pounds they put their plans on hold. They are one of the four million UK households facing higher mortgage bills this year....

Residential real estate investors and investment properties in 2020

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: Statistics Canada --- Overview For the first time, the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) is publishing data on investors. This article presents a profile of these owners and the residential properties they owned in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New...

11 Luxe Homes That Bring the Outdoors Inside, From Costa Rica to California

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: Robb Report --- For many people, being surrounded by nature has a positive impact on mood, health and happiness. The pandemic exacerbated the need to be in or around the great outdoors after months of being unable to leave confined spaces. Biophilic design, as...

‘We saved probably close to $100K’: Affluent Americans are snatching up prime real estate in other parts of the world — as the US housing market slumps. Here’s how to do it too

by Third Party | Feb 4, 2023

Source: Yahoo! Life --- Laetitia Laurent knows the value of looking far and wide for a good deal. The Florida-based business owner and her husband had been hunting for a second home for five years before snagging an incredible bargain — in Paris. She made an offer in...

China’s real estate crisis isn’t over yet, IMF says

by Third Party | Feb 4, 2023

Source: CNBC --- BEIJING — China needs to do more in order to fix its real estate problems, the International Monetary Fund said Friday. The property market contributes to about a quarter of China’s GDP and has been a drag on growth, especially since Beijing cracked...

Mortgage overpayments surge as borrowers fend off rising interest bills

by Third Party | Feb 3, 2023

Source: Financial Times --- Mortgage borrowers scrambled to pay down their housing debt after interest rates on home loans soared, with lump-sum repayments and redemptions jumping to £2.4bn in October last year from £1.7bn in the same month in 2021. The figures from...