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Prince and Princess of Wales Moving to New ‘Forever Home’

by Phil Hall | Aug 18, 2025

The relocation will be funded privately, and the royal couple will pay market rent on the property. Continue Reading Prince and Princess of Wales Moving to New ‘Forever Home’

Turkish Government Begins Crackdown on Fake Real Estate Listings

by Phil Hall | Aug 18, 2025

The government has begun using an electronic listing verification system designed to affirm the identity and authorization of listing owners. Continue Reading Turkish Government Begins Crackdown on Fake Real Estate Listings

ICE to Take its Climate Risk Offering Globally with Dun & Bradstreet Supply Chain and Location Data

by Rick Grant | Feb 21, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) has inked an agreement with Dun & Bradstreet to leverage its global supply chain and corporate location data to expand ICE’s climate risk offering globally. As part of the agreement, Dun & Bradstreet also plans to...

Indian real estate industry to thrive in 2023 despite global headwinds

by Third Party | Feb 21, 2023

Source: The Times Of India --- The Indian real estate industry in 2022 has been a story of resilience and growth against the odds of rising construction costs, skyrocketing inflation, and successive RBI rate hikes amid the unprecedented global upswing. The sector saw...

UK Proptech Firm Expands Into US with Focus on Affordable Housing

by Rick Grant | Feb 20, 2023

LandTech, the London-based proptech firm that claims to enable property developers of all sizes to identify and assess off-market development opportunities, has expanded to the US, with the goal of helping the country deal with its housing shortage, which it...

Savvy Chicks in Real Estate’s CEO On Doing Business Abroad

by Third Party | Feb 20, 2023

Source: Yahoo! --- Meet Makeda Smith, the Founder and CEO of Savvy Chicks in Real Estate®, a global network that helps women in real estate build and expand their businesses, online and offline. Born and raised in Chicago, as a child, she never dreamed of venturing...

China’s property crash is prompting banks to offer mortgages to 70-year-olds

by Third Party | Feb 19, 2023

Source: CNN Business --- Hong KongCNN — The property market in China is so depressed that some banks are resorting to drastic measures, including allowing people to pay off mortgages until they are 95 years old. Some banks in the cities of Nanning, Hangzhou, Ningbo...

China’s property crash is prompting banks to offer mortgages to 70-year-olds

by Third Party | Feb 18, 2023

Source: CNN Business --- The property market in China is so depressed that some banks are resorting to drastic measures, including allowing people to pay off mortgages until they are 95 years old. Some banks in the cities of Nanning, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Beijing have...

Companies Plan Metaverse RE Development Connected to Real Cities

by Rick Grant | Feb 18, 2023

News out of London is that Web developers are hoping to strike it rich in real estate by connecting properties developed in Metaverse with real world cities. nChain, a developer of Web3 and Blockchain technologies, has formed a strategic alliance with Transmira Inc....

Ontario regulator warns real estate agents to watch for signs of fraudulent home sales

by Third Party | Feb 18, 2023

Source: CBC --- The body that regulates Ontario's 100,000 real estate agents and brokers is urging them to be more vigilant when verifying the identity of a client, amid a wave of fraudulent home sales and mortgages in the Toronto area. The Real Estate Council of...

Saudi Arabia’s Tourism Boosts Post-Covid Recovery of Real Estate Sector

by Third Party | Feb 18, 2023

Source: Skift --- The post-Covid recovery of the real estate sector in Saudi Arabia is led by increasing tourist demand and government spending on infrastructure projects such as the investment in King Salman International Airport, Deloitte noted in its latest real...

Keller Williams Expands into Germany

by Leora Ruzin | Feb 17, 2023

Keller Williams (KW), a global real estate franchise, announces continued worldwide expansion into Germany. “In 2013, we first set forth with our vision to expand outside of the U.S. and Canada,” said Gary Keller, executive chairman, KW. “And today, we’re...