Distressed Property

Investor sentiment surrounding the US real estate market appears to be low. More than half of property owners and renters in the country (54 per cent) believe that the sector will not fully recover until at least 2014....

Globally the number of distressed properties listed for sale is expected to increase, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has claimed....

Investors from Asia and Europe are expected to bolster housing sales in Central Florida in 2011, with many looking to take advantage of the "undervalued" property that is on the market. Florida house prices are bottoming out and international property buyers look like reviving the Florida housing market this year, Stirling Sotheby's International Realty has claimed....

Property investments in Spain could look more attractive as the country shows that it is not in as bad a deficit as had been thought....

A growing number of foreign buyers are looking to the US market for investment opportunities, with Florida the favoured destination. Real estate agents in Miami have reported an influx of buyers from Europe, South America and Canada as prices in the state remain at rock bottom....

Homes in the US are set to drop in value significantly by the end of the year, a new report has suggested. In total, residential prices will have fallen by USD 1.9 trillion when the year closes....

High unemployment levels and rising personal debt are helping to contribute to a slowdown in growth of the US property market. Capital Economics has claimed that these factors are helping to dissuade individuals from making purchases in the sector despite record-low mortgage rates....

Investing in property in the US has been described as a "winner". Real estate portal Property Abroad has claimed that current low prices in the country can "only go up over the terms of the investment"....

Real estate markets around the world are set to slow considerably in 2011 following the post-crash bounce. According to the Global Residential Market Forecast from estate agent Knight Frank, prices are likely to remain fairly static in the coming 12 months....

Commercial property investors in the US who have not witnessed the expected deluge of distressed real estate enter the market are focussing their attention on quality assets. This is according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Korpacz Real Estate Investors survey....

An increasing number of international investors are looking towards Asian property markets for returns. In particular, Japan is proving to be a favoured destination, with over USD 2 billion in deals already agreed this year....

Expectations of a deluge of distressed property coming onto the market in coming years is keeping transaction levels down as investors wait patiently on the sidelines, it has been claimed.

IPE has reported that an increasing number of real estate investors in the US are becoming "more diligent" when it comes to parting with their money and waiting for the right opportunities to present themselves....

Performance in emerging destinations and Asian real estate markets are among the best in the world.

The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Global Commercial Property Survey has highlighted that destinations within the two regions are comfortably outperforming more developed countries....

Globally commercial real estate appears to be performing strongly. Interest in the area remains strong and in many markets transaction levels are heading back to the level previously seen during its 2007 peak....

Commercial real estate is hot property. At least the latest research suggests that an increasing number of property investors are turning to the area looking for reasonable returns.

European real estate in particular appears to be at the forefront of many buyers' minds....

The number of overseas investors searching for homes in the U.S. has skyrocketed 192 percent in the last year, according to recent statistics....

Freddie Mac's housing inventory, along with the number of homeowners filing forbearance agreements, increased at substantial rates in the first half of 2010...

Despite a slight upward trend in prices of late, thanks to the homebuyer credit, worrisome signs remain for the US housing market...

Distressed property in the foreclosure process in the US is selling at an average of 27% lower than other real estate with almost a third of all transactions involving those in some stage of mortgage

Whilst the term "distressed" when applied to property is not all that new, in the past couple of years the term has certainly become more prevalent in the industry, especially in the US. With this article we outline some of the key points regarding distressed property and things to bear in mind when considering it as an investment....

RealtyTrac projects an increase of one million foreclosure filings for 2010, compared to a year ago....

An Abu Dhabi-backed fund is expected to announce as early as today it has bought out the senior debt in a stalled Omani real estate project in a landmark regional distressed real estate deal.

Real estate investors around the globe can expect to see a rise in the number of distressed properties entering the market during the second quarter of 2010, with the US and Ireland leading the way.....

With the recent furore surrounding the restructuring of Greek debt and fears that it will have a profound effect on economic recovery, how is the real estate market going to cope?....

Individuals are returning to the Portuguese market and looking to invest in property following the influx of distressed bargain hunters that flooded the country last year. Agents and developers are beginning to report a shift in demographics in line with economic recovery....

Property investment can be a profitable business.... if you get it right. Many have made mistakes and lost money instead of gaining from their ventures. We list the top 5 common mistakes made so hopefully you can be more assured of a profitable property investment.....