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Canada home prices rise 5.2 pct in April: CREA
Asia private equity funds line up dollars for Myanmar
Goldman Sachs to invest $1.3M in Japan real estate this summer
EDITOR'S PICKS
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Mortgage Rates Jump Back Above 6% After Iran Strikes Push Oil Prices And Treasury Yields Higher
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Jim Curtis Lists Seaport Loft-Style NYC Apartment With Brooklyn Bridge Views For $1.525M Amid Jennifer Aniston Romance
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Justin Baldoni Lists Renovated 10-Acre Solar-Powered Ojai Sanctuary For $8.88 Million As Trial Nears With Blake Lively
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Richard Dean Anderson's $45 Million Malibu Retreat: Inside His Hidden Celebrity Property Portfolio
The funding crisis for mainland Chinese property developers is intensifying, ratings agencies say, with real-estate builders facing spiking borrowing costs and a limited ability to raise cash at a time when sales and economic growth are slowing. China disperses $10 bln of public housing funds
China's Ministry of Finance said on Thursday it had given 66 billion yuan ($10.5 billion) to local governments to help build public housing for rent, one of five categories of state-subsidised affordable housing. Trump Flies into Ex-Soviet Georgia For Tower Project
American property mogul Donald Trump flew into the former Soviet republic of Georgia on Saturday to expand his global real estate empire, lending his name to a glitzy tower on the Black Sea coast there. Trump Says Makes Turkey Investment Priority
Trump says makes Turkey investment priority A hotel of Turkey American property mogul Donald Trump declared Turkey an ideal investment destination and said on Friday he expected to collaborate more with the Turkish owners of the city's Trump Towers. Haitong To Raise $1.68 Billion In World’s Biggest IPO In 2012: Report
Haitong Securities Co. (SHA: 600837), China's second-largest brokerage by assets, raised HK$13 billion ($1.7 billion) in the largest public offering in the world so far this year, media reports said Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Spain and France Still Top Destinations for UK Second Home Owners
Spain and France are still the top destinations for British people buying a second home abroad, according to the latest search report from Rightmove Overseas. Some 21.01% of searches for overseas property were for Spain followed by 17.91% for France and 12.06% for the US. New Home Building in Australia Remains Weak
New home building in Australia is set to remain weak in 2012 with land sales hitting a new low, according to the Housing Industry Association, the voice of Australia's residential building industry. Forbes World's Top 10 Biggest Companies: JPMorgan Chase #2 [SLIDESHOW]
Exxon Mobil tops the Forbes' list of Global 2000 companies. It seems the heavyweights of the business world are not affected by the slow global growth or the eurozone crisis. Coty Expands in Empire State Building
Beauty company Coty Inc has signed a new lease for 317,716 square feet (29,517 square meters) in New York City's Empire State Building, adding two floors to the four it already occupied in the iconic skyscraper. NYC Will Open 54 New Schools This Fall & A Software Engineering School, Says Bloomberg
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced the city's plan to open 54 new schools this fall, including a high school academy for software engineering. Come September, the Bloomberg administration will have closed 140 schools and opened 589 new ones since 2002, through a longstanding policy that has set out to replace poorly performing schools. The new schools will eventually serve more than 21,000 students.
