Aegon chief calls housing market action, drastic drop in loans to first-time buyers

Insurance company and mortgage provider Aegon is the latest organisation to call for action to free up the overheated Dutch housing market. 'The percentage of loans made to first-time buyers in the central urban belt has fallen drastically,' Aegon Nederland chief executive Maarten Edixhoven said in an
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Amazon is planning to offer a credit card to U.S. small-business customers, furthering its push to supply companies with everything from reams of paper to factory parts, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The e-commerce giant has been in talks with banks including JPMorgan Chase on a
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KUALA LUMPUR: The property market is expected to improve this year due to the positive domestic market environment, said Real Estate and Housing Developers' Association Malaysia (Rehda) patron Ng Seing Long. Ng attributed this to the country's economy being on the right track, having registered
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SAN FRANCISCO >> The Bay Area job market will outperform the nation during 2018, but skyrocketing housing prices might imperil the region's economy, two economists said Monday. “The Bay Area is defying gravity,” Jerry Nickelsburg, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, said during a
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The 2018 RE/MAX Luxury Property Report examined trends and developments in the GTA (freehold and condominium properties), Oakville and … 2017, which should be distinguished as an outlier year for luxury real estate,” says Christopher Alexander, Executive Vice President and Regional Director,
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Mike Baird, born in Los Angeles, California on May 5th, 1978 to Robert and Eileen Baird. Mike was raised in Poway, California with his three brothers: David, John, and Paul Baird. He was a graduate of Poway High School in 1996 and was involved in the sport of wrestling. After high school Mike sought
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The long-awaited Royal Commission follows years of scandals in Australia's financial sector including poor financial advice, interest-rate rigging, and accusations of breaking money-laundering rules. Selling tactics on mortgages, car loans and credit cards will be the first focus of the inquiry whose final
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Kitty Hawk, the secretive flying-car startup that's funded by Alphabet CEO Larry Page, has finally taken the wraps off its flying taxi, which it calls Cora. It's been almost a year since the company showed off a vehicle called Flyer, which was a much more cut-down affair that looked best designed for some
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Anthony Milewski was among the first investors to realize that if electric-vehicle sales take off the way automakers expect, the world is going to need a lot more cobalt—an … So, in 2015, backed by a Russian billionaire, Milewski started buying metal from mining companies and putting it in warehouses.
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You have not paid it off in a while but you are meeting the monthly minimum repayments, so the bank offers to raise the limit. You accept the offer but now the debt is $8,000, and you cannot pay it off. You accept a credit transfer from another financial institution on the promise of 18 months interest-free,
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Even as the bank's bond trading results faltered, it kept growing in debt underwriting. Goldman earned a record $2.94 billion of revenue from that business last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's been helped by deals such as Amazon.com Inc.'s purchase of Whole Foods Market Inc.,
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What's the group's outlook on the local real estate market? Are there any trends that investors should take into account in the next few years? One trend, which we anticipated, should be obvious from our objectives: we are prioritizing residential projects, at least for the next two years. It is a market that
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SINGAPORE: The region's ride-hailing giant Grab announced on Tuesday (Mar 13) it is going bigger into financial services, by partnering Japan's Credit Saison to offer lending to the unbanked and underbanked within its ecosystem. The lending service will be part of the newly announced Grab
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The data that would be exempt from reporting includes the financial information of borrowers and loan applicants, along with their race and sex. Some Democratic lawmakers, community activists and low-income-housing advocates say removing the spotlight on mortgage disclosures could allow lenders
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About 43% of the submissions related to personal financial issues, with the most common complaints relating to home loans, mortgage broking, car loans, credit cards and consumer banking. Cox said in her experience, when helping people resolve financial problems related to loans, many were
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Law360 (March 12, 2018, 5:29 PM EDT) — CBRE Group Inc. said Monday that it has secured $152 million in financing for real estate investment and … CBRE Group secured a 10-year, interest only fixed-rate commercial mortgage-backed securities loan on behalf of Harbor Group International LLC for
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The data is real. A good night of sleep can have enormous benefits for our health, wellbeing and productivity. Yet only one-third of people who suffer from sleep disorders seek professional help. How can we change these alarming percentages? In this day and age of increasing sleep deprivation,
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Yu reminded the audience that following the dot-com boom, tech jobs plummeted at a much steeper rate than jobs in the non-tech sector. The expensive housing market was deemed to be perhaps the greatest peril for the region. “High housing prices are a risk to the Bay Area economy,” Yu said.
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