Singapore Home Price Growth Slows, Rents Decline as Market Cools
Singapore home prices grew at a slower pace last quarter and rents fell, as the city-state’s property boom began to lose steam.
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Singapore home prices grew at a slower pace last quarter and rents fell, as the city-state’s property boom began to lose steam.
Hong Kong home prices rose for the first time in almost a year in March as the city’s removal of property curbs revived sales.
Greater China’s property market crisis and the challenges it poses for lenders will be on full display on Monday, when embattled developer China Vanke Co. and the region’s biggest banks report earnings.
China’s overseas investment is heading for an eight-year high as its dominant firms build more factories abroad, a shift that could soften criticism of Beijing’s export drive.
The Related Cos. founder is following the money flowing south by bringing his influence to everything from real estate to schools and health care.
Jan 21, 2021
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp., the nation’s housing agency and main provider of mortgage insurance, forecasts that it would remain solvent in all but the most extreme economic scenario envisioned in its annual stress test.
The CMHC said Thursday that it would be forced to recapitalize itself only if the economy underwent a second sharp downturn and the government failed to provide support for Canadians in need. That scenario, which it considers the least plausible outcome in its stress test, would entail a peak unemployment rate of 25%, a 48% drop in housing prices with 12 quarters of declining prices and as much as C$15.3 billion ($12.1 billion) in cumulative claim losses.
The agency still would be solvent under its second-most severe scenario, which includes another economic decline paired with a cyber-attack that reduced liquidity in the financial system but was mitigated by government support. That situation envisions a 24% peak unemployment rate, a 37% housing price drop with eight quarters of declining prices and as much as C$8.42 billion in claim losses.
The baseline scenario entails a peak unemployment rate of 18.9%, a 14% housing price drop with five quarters of declining prices and as much as C$3.61 billion in claim losses. In a news conference, Chief Risk Officer Nadine Leblanc emphasized that the scenarios aren’t predictions of the direction of the housing market but are instead representative of conditions that would place stress on the agency’s finances.
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