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Ukraine?s real estate sector is still struggling. Ukraine is suffering from political instability and a deepeconomic crisis. The economy ? one of the worst-performing in the developed world ? has requiredintervention by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Exports have fallen. There has been a dra ...
Industries : Real Estate
This coming quarter will be marked by the opening of the first line of the Dubai Metro in early September2009. The Dubai metro is the first of its kind in the Gulf, and its construction has prompted manyneighbouring emirates and states to procure similar multi-billion-dollar urban rail projects, whi ...
Industries : Real Estate
Although there are some signs of recovery in the UK?s battered residential real estate market, rises arelikely to be muted by the shortage of credit and the challenging outlook for employment. In April 2009,mortgage approvals were still about one-third lower than they were in the same month of 2008 ...
Industries : Real Estate
The election of a new government in Bulgaria spells several changes in the infrastructure sector. The newgovernment has set a clear target of reducing debt and deficits by curbing spending. Thus many projectsare being re-assessed, primary among them the Belene nuclear power plant (NPP). The Belene N ...
Industries : Real Estate
The economic downturn has hit most segments of the Czech real estate market hard. Various researchershave identified looming or actual oversupply in the retail, industrial and office markets. These problemsare unlikely to be resolved quickly. The actual impact of the global economic downturn has bee ...
Industries : Real Estate
The effects of the global financial crisis have been delayed in the French real estate markets, but thisquarter some downward trends are materialising.The average house price across France has begun to drop. BMI figures, drawn from national statisticalagencies and independent researchers, show a 5.7 ...
Industries : Real Estate
We have revised our forecasts this quarter to a slightly more bearish prognosis for 2009. We now predictthat the construction sector in Hong Kong will undergo a contraction in real terms of 8.9% this year,compared with our earlier forecast of 7.3%. This is on the back of very poor data in the initi ...
Industries : Real Estate
Infrastructure spending, which has felt the strain of the slowdown, has continued to feel it in 2009. Thegovernment?s willingness to plough money into the economy, and some big loans from foreign lendersand multilateral institutions for major projects, will soften but not eliminate the pain. Kazakhs ...
Industries : Real Estate
With the Polish economy posting a positive 0.8% y-o-y expansion in real GDP during Q109, and withleading indicators suggesting that domestic demand has not suffered an outright collapse, we concede thatour previous forecast for an economic contraction of 2.7% this year will likely prove a step too f ...
Industries : Real Estate
Qatar continues to be one of the best prospects for growth in the infrastructure sector in the Middle Eastin 2009. Despite a further downward revision to our forecasts for the country in 2009, we are stilloptimistic for the sector?s potential, and thus expect it to achieve one of the highest growth ...
Industries : Real Estate
The economic downturn and the fall in oil prices have hit the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) real-estatesector hard, but Qatar, although not immune, has avoided the severe falls seen in other countries. Thecentral bank says that the Qatari economy could grow by up to 7% in real terms in 2009 because ...
Industries : Real Estate
Bratislava?s abundant prime vacant building sites, along with favourable investment conditions in thenewly reformed Slovakia, have led to a construction boom. Luxury apartments, commercial and retailspace are coming online, but early completions have satisfied much of the demand, and the economicdow ...
Industries : Real Estate
In the time since the previous revision to our growth forecast (mid-July), the signs of recovery in SouthKorea have continued to build, with many leading and coincident indicators now pointing towards a Vshapedrecovery. While concerns remain about the impact of waning fiscal stimulus in Q409, export ...
Industries : Real Estate
The momentum of improving relations with the mainland will help Taiwan stage a stronger economicrecovery than would otherwise have been the case. Relaxed transport and investment restrictions betweenthe two long-time rivals should unleash synergies over the coming years, presenting attractiveopportu ...
Industries : Real Estate
Government support for the real estate development is high in Bahrain ? there is a real effort under way toreduce the state?s dependence on oil. The Ministry of Works sees the need for infrastructure to keep pacewith the property development and has drawn up a long-term plan with a completion date i ...
Industries : Real Estate
With the Latin American economy set to contract by 2.6% this year, Chile's sound macro fundamentalsand prudent policies are placing the country in a league of its own to deal with global recessionary forces.It is our view that Chile will avoid a recession this year. We base our outlook on increased ...
Industries : Real Estate
The economic value of the Chinese real estate sector is difficult to exaggerate. Investment in residentialproperty accounted for about 10% of GDP before the global economic downturn, around the same as thecountry's export factories.China has seen a return to a more buoyant property sector in 2009 an ...
Industries : Real Estate
The numbers still look bad for the economy in Kuwait as we move towards 2010, with our budget andgrowth figures having been revised down for 2009 on the back of lower oil output and exports. Recoveryis still pencilled in for 2010, but there are still risks, most notably in the precarious financial s ...
Industries : Real Estate
No sooner had Vietnam weathered its own financial crisis in early 2008 than it came under pressure fromthe global crisis. In terms of the economy, we now predict growth of 4.5% in 2009. GDP grew anestimated 3.1% y-o-y in Q109 following a revised 6.2% expansion in 2008. While the economy is likelyto ...
Industries : Real Estate
Singapore?s economy was one of the first ? and hardest ? to be hit by the global economic slowdown.This has had serious ramifications for all major real estate sectors ? and exacerbated a deterioration inconditions that had begun in Q208. In Q109 home and office prices saw a record decline of more t ...
Industries : Real Estate
While Germany saw marginal growth in Q209 the infrastructure sector still faces difficulties in 2009.Although government stimulus has had positive effects in other areas, the total value for constructioncontracts in 2009 is projected to be down to US$118bn. This represents year-on-year (y-o-y) growt ...
Industries : Real Estate
The global recession hit home in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) real estate markets in the firstquarter of this year. Market turnover, according to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) data, fell 57% between thelast quarter of 2008 and Q109, from EUR616mn to EUR268mn.In its May report on the CEE markets, C ...
Industries : Real Estate
More so than many other Latin American countries, Mexico?s economic fortunes are closely tied to thoseof the US. It is no surprise therefore that Mexico?s economy has had a rough ride of late. Our latestforecast is for real GDP growth to contract by 1.3% over 2009. In brief, industrial production ha ...
Industries : Real Estate
This is the third review of Venezuela?s real estate sector. Reliable, timely data from the market remainsscarce; however, key issues we have previously highlighted are still the most important.The market is hampered by the lack of supply of housing stock with the result that prices and rents haveris ...
Industries : Real Estate
Housing prices are continuing to fall, due largely to foreclosures and distress sales, which account forover 40% of sales according to the national Association of Realtors. The annual rate of housingbuilding starts has fallen by 12.8% since March, resulting in the lowest figure since records began i ...
Industries : Real Estate
BMI has revised its forecasts for Japan?s infrastructure sector on the back of new data. As a result, theshort-term picture for the sector is slightly worse than previously expected, with overall year-on-year (yo-y) growth of -12.21% predicted for 2009. This decline is expected to continue into 2010 ...
Industries : Real Estate
India?s property market is in a downturn. After nearly four years of a real estate boom, prices havedropped 20-40% since their peak, property sales have fallen over 50% year-on-year (y-o-y), anddevelopers are burdened with many unsold and unfinished projects.The economic recession has taken hold, an ...
Industries : Real Estate
Hong Kong?s real estate sector has seen some upturn through the middle of 2009 and may be heading outof a period of poorly performing house prices and a crisis in office accommodation.The central Chinese and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) governments haveimplemented several strate ...
Industries : Real Estate
The global economic recession has caught up with Malaysia, with the economy contracting in Q109 forthe first time since 2001 as exports slumped, pushing the nation toward its first recession in a decade.The economy, the third largest in South East Asia, shrunk 6.2% year-on-year (y-o-y) in Q109 afte ...
Industries : Real Estate
This is the third of BMI?s reports on the real estate sector of Pakistan.The country?s real estate sector continues to be dominated by the two major issues of a chronic shortageof housing against a backdrop of a rapidly rising population and the impact of security factors on the riskappetite of inve ...
Industries : Real Estate
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