Couples in China are getting divorced so they can buy more houses

Couples in China are getting divorced so they can buy more houses

In September, Chinese new home prices rose by a massive 2.1%, extending the gains over the past year to 11.2%, the fastest pace seen in seven
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Contractors say Lehigh Valley residents are renovating their homes to stay

The Lehigh Valley's slowly rebounding housing market may be seeing an increase in home sales, but at the Eastern Pennsylvania Fall Home Show
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Banks' lending to the retail sector

Growth in domestic trade, increase in urbanisation and spread in the network of retail outlets across major cities continues to fuel banks' lending to
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New FDI norms may open vaults for fintech companies

“For example, if a lending company wants to take equity in addition to lending, they don't need to go through the approval route.” However, experts say
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APRA warns banks on mortgage interest rate matching

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's updated mortgage lending guidelines, released today, also urge banks to have appropriate
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The risks from China's property bubble

The housing market in China has been behaving wildly. Housing prices in China's major cities are up by 30 per cent on a year ago. The frenzy to
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The Hottest, Coldest Reverse Mortgage Markets Through September 2016

National reverse mortgage volume may be trending lower in 2016 than in recent years, but now with three-quarters of the year already in the books,
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PNB Housing Finance IPO: Should you invest?

The Rs 3,000 crore initial public offer (IPO) of PNB Housing Finance opens on Tuesday in a price band of Rs 750 – 775. The company intends to utilise
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BOJ frets about real estate lending boom, watchful of bubble risk

A Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo – RTX2P8PK.
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Lending a hand, making a difference

Marietta College students Rachel Brown, 21, of Bridgeport, W.Va., Kali Miller, 20, of Carlton, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Dingey, 20, of Blue Rock,
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Banking data breach increases people's distrust on plastic transactions

MUMBAI: Likhiram Mandhare got text messages alerting him to two withdrawals of Rs 20,900 each last month. He called his bank immediately,
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The suburbs black-listed by the bank

The list, sent to mortgage brokers last week, is divided in to “Group A” postcodes in rural areas, where lending is capped at 70 per cent of the
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Is APRA preparing to tighten mortgage LVRs?

ARF 320.8 was introduced in 2008 and has not been updated since then. There is now a significant gap in APRA's ability to monitor the credit risk and
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China's Insanely Leveraged Housing Market Will Enter Its Secular Bear Market In 2017

Why China's fabulously leveraged housing market may finally be on the verge of a long-anticipated implosion.
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