SIBOR Global Council

Published September 18. 2020 12:01AM  By Greg Hanner Sponsored by: Eastern Connecticut Association of REALTORS® The saying goes that all real estate is local, but that does not mean that all homebuyers are local. According to the National Association of Realtors® 2019 Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate, global buyers spent an estimated […]

ndustry benchmark report finds that Hispanics achieved a net gain of 277,000 homeowners in 2019, raising the Hispanic homeownership rate to 47.5 percent. SAN DIEGO, CA—April 7, 2020—The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals® (NAHREP®) today released the 2019 State of Hispanic Homeownership Report, a key asset in the organization’s goal of improving public awareness and […]

By Michael Gerrity | September 8, 2020 8:00 AM ETAccording to Singapore-based property consultant EDMUND TIE, as Singapore’s economy started to reopen in June 2020 during the global Coronavirus pandemic, the residential property market enjoyed relatively brisk activity that translated into an appreciable uptick in transaction volumes. In June itself, new sales more than doubled to 998 […]

By Monsef Rachid | September 7, 2020 9:14 AM ETStrong demand, low inventories prop up home prices in most U.S. cities Based on new data by Zillow, U.S. home sellers continued to drive a housing market with low supply and eager buyers as total for-sale inventory contracted for the 13th straight week and typical time-on-market maintained record […]

MATTHEW MONTAGU-POLLOCK | September 04, 2020 During the year to Q2 2020: Surprisingly, global housing markets remained extraordinarily vibrant during the year to Q2 2020, especially in Europe, Canada and the US. Real house prices (i.e., prices adjusted for inflation) rose in 33 out of the 49 world’s housing markets which have so far published housing statistics. The more […]

Published: Aug. 8, 2020 at 11:57 a.m. ETBy  Jacob Passy International buyers purchased the smallest number of existing-homes in the U.S. since 2011 this past year Foreign buyers are purchasing fewer and fewer American homes. And the coronavirus pandemic could cause a serious pullback in new investment in U.S. residential real estate from international buyers. […]

Residential sales to non-citizens totaled $74 billion in the year through March, half of what it was three years ago BY BECKIE STRUM  |  ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 6, 2020  |  MANSION GLOBAL A neighborhood in San Francisco.GETTY IMAGES Foreign buyers spent 5% less on U.S. housing over the past year, the third consecutive year of falling sales, as […]

Michael Valdes, Executive Vice President of International Expansion for eXp Global. Remember when you made your housing decisions based on proximity to work or a social center? When you wanted to be in an urban environment for the vibrancy of the community and were willing to sacrifice space in order to achieve that? Well, the Covid-19 […]