Pradip Chopra feels there is a lot of scope for the real estate professional in this era of property boom. FIFTY-TWO per cent of Indias population is below 25 years of age. It therefore does not require an economist to predict that there will be an increased demand of houses shortly. The population at present …

Optimism is slowly returning to the Canadian economy, but real estate developers must still temper theirs with some caution. Most residential and commercial real estate markets remain soft, and few are likely to show much improvement for at least three years. This is especially true in commercial real estate. ”There are very few markets where …

As the real estate investing market in the U.S. shows signs of topping off, countries in the throes of restructuring, such as Germany, Italy and Spain, are drawing new interest from real estate investors, mostly private equity funds associated with major U.S. investment banks. New opportunities are also cropping up abroad in the securitization of …

Investments based on real estate price indexes will be traded in the United States beginning in the first quarter of next year, opening up the multitrillion-dollar real estate markets to institutional investors and large corporations like never before. The new derivatives will not only give investors the ability to invest in real estate without having …

The deteriorating condition of property markets worldwide has caused many investors to cut a wide swath around real estate mutual funds in the past year. News of the Reichmanns’ financial troubles coupled with the suspension of redemptions at troubled Central Guaranty Trust Co.’s real-estate estate fund confirmed people’s fears about the decline in property values …