World's Most Overpriced Real Estate Markets
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They're culture-rich and scenically stunning, but very, very pricey.
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As mortgage defaults rise, more houses are being put up for auction  -  and more people are seeing a chance to make big bucks. But there are risks
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Weak housing market hurting demand for power tools.
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Foreclosures were once the turf of the  most aggressive investors, but these days ordinary home buyers  can hunt for fire-sale house prices on a wealth of Internet  sites.
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In a real-estate market in which homeowners have been flipping properties almost as quickly as they would stocks, eBay&#39;s getting in on the action.
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As mortgage defaults rise, more houses are being put up for auction -- and more people are seeing a chance to make big bucks. But there are risks
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The finances of first-time home buyers are being stretched to record levels by rising house prices.
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Investing in out-of-the-way areas can give great returns, but is it for everyone?
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The roaring commercial real estate market is getting too hard for property owners to resist.
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Distinctions between local economies are being overridden by a mortgage market that has made it more difficult for many would-be home-buyers to obtain financing.
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House prices in the UK are heading for a crash, warn the world&#39;s money men. Soft landing, please, say Britain&#39;s estate agents.
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Party like its 1999, multiplied by 53 A piece of prime web real estate, which set a price record at the height of the dotcom bubble, is being punted to potential buyers for up to $400m.â¦
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US markets lose ground as data shows repossessions and overdue mortgage payments in the US at record levels.
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REITs are getting pummeled, and it's time to start paying attention.
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The official numbers on house prices ÃÂ the last refuge of soothing information about the real estate market on the coasts ÃÂ are deeply misleading.
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Relatively well-off people in Manhattan or San Francisco or Seattle tend to pay their rents. Financial markets, especially the asset-backed ones that are so key to leveraged buy-outs, like this kind of stability. So it is fairly surprising that real estate investment trusts focusing on apartments have not been the subject of private equity interest - until now at least. On Tuesday, Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) offered an enterprise value of $22bn for Archstone (NYSE:ASN)-Smith, known for its high-quality portfolio in sought-after cities such as New York.
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This just in from London: the U.S. subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.