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Real Estate

As US economies reopen, the residential housing market is expected to improve and remain relatively stable as tight inventories and low mortgage rates are expected to support the market in spite of economic uncertainty.
U.S. home sales probably will fall next year as Baby Boomers gridlock the housing market by aging in place.
US housing demand started the year strong, interest rates are expected to stay at low levels for the foreseeable future, and home prices have held stable over the past four quarters.
Increasing emphasis of green buildings, coupled with the rapid development of the real estate market in India, is projected to provide vast growth potential for coated glass.
Lower interest rates will throw more fuel onto the fire that is Canada's housing market, leading to a strong increase in resale home prices and residential investment this year.
Around the U.S., the average price of farm real estate has more than doubled: Over the next five years, almost 100 million acres of farmland will change hands, and that at least some of it will go towards non-agricultural uses.
The global economy is showing signs of life, but the commercial real estate market will take longer to recover, with significant declines in rental rates forecasted for the remainder of 2020.
Demand for housing will tighten Calgary's rental vacancy rate and nudge average rents higher over the next few years.
Global finished steel demand was forecast to increase by 3.9% in 2019 and 1.7% in 2020, as a result of real estate investment in China and 4.1% growth in emerging and developing economies in 2020.
Price growth stuttered last year in the face of political volatility and tensions between the UK and European Union could reverberate in the housing market again later this year.
By 2030, around 40% of the global population is expected to require housing at the rate of about 96,150 housing per day.
With a presidential election taking place this fall and talk of a possible recession occurring before the end of the year, predicting what will happen in the 2020 U.S. housing market can be challenging.
The real estate markets in Idaho could fare better than other U.S. cities over the next year, as a result of having strong demand and short supply.
$2.4bn will help JP Morgan prepare for potential loan losses from business customers, with the largest losses expected from oil and gas companies, as well as real estate and retail.
Given the influx of emerging technologies resulting in many innovations within the real estate industry, it is clear that the near future will look very different from the recent past.
The UAE government plans to make Dubai the smartest city in the world by 2021, from smart transportation to smart housing to smart government.
Over the next 30 years, climate change will have the biggest impact on real estate.
California must build housing at least five-times faster than the current rate of 80,000 units each year to eliminate the housing deficit by 2025.
Significant investment in building new social housing and reducing the carbon emissions of existing homes goes beyond the traditional economic realm though, and could save more than £1bn in health outcomes and fuel bills across Wales.
EU regulation is delaying new building projects take place in the Netherlands during 2020-21, due to the way Dutch builders and farmers are dealing with nitrogen emissions, which is likely to push up the value of existing real estate.
While there was some improvement in Q4 last year, including in the real estate sector, activity will face headwinds from the virus spread, which has prompted Oxford Economics to cut its non-oil GDP forecast to 2.9% this year, from 3.5% seen last month.
While the Canadian housing market appears to be stabilizing, a wave of five-year fixed mortgage rate resets set to take place next year will spark new risks for the economy.

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Last updated: 04 July 2020