Revealed: criminals and unlicensed agents operating across Australia’s real estate sector | Housing

Convicted criminals and unlicensed agents are operating in the real estate sector across multiple states, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.

In New South Wales, the Guardian has established that two individuals convicted of dishonesty offences have been allowed back

Celebrity real estate broker gives reality check on housing: Prices won’t go down

One celebrity real estate agent made a gloomy prediction about the health of the U.S. housing market

“Ukraine had a shortage of adequate housing before the war” says UN’s Richard Evans

The United Nations’ refugee agency is repairing Ukrainian homes damaged by Russian attacks, but they need to be built back to a better standard than before the war, says project lead Richard Evans in this interview.

Richard Evans, the emergency

$40.7M in federal funding to build, repair affordable housing in Burnaby and New West

“Investing in low-cost housing not only helps to prevent homelessness and other unsafe living conditions but also supports economic opportunities.”

Eight figures in federal funding unveiled today, July 26, will help more affordable housing become available in Burnaby and New

Analyst warns of a housing market crisis in the South

The American South is teetering on the edge of a housing market crisis, according to real estate analyst Nick Gerli.

The post-2020 rush to build new homes in states like Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas has led to a glut

New Directions Housing in Louisville launches free home repair program

New Directions Housing Corporation in Louisville received a $1.2 million grant, and the money will be used to help repair seniors in the community.The grant came from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The program applied for the …

Interprovincial migration helps fuel tight Calgary housing market

Relatively more affordable housing types, such as row and apartment-style homes, saw the most significant year-over-year price gains

Celebrity real estate agent Mauricio Umansky warns ‘perfect storm’ of housing unaffordability brewing

Celebrity real estate agent Mauricio Umansky is sounding the alarm over the “perfect storm of total unaffordability”

Commercial real estate bubble will burst, says top economist who predicted 2008 housing crisis

While a lot has recovered and rebounded since the pandemic (think Thanksgiving travel and gathering en masse), work environments seem forever changed. The pandemic emptied office buildings as we once knew them, and central business districts suffered. Commercial real estate …

The housing crisis plus other letters, Aug. 18: ‘The best thing I can do to provide for my children in the distant future is to buy real estate and rent it out’

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A for sale sign is displayed outside a home in Toronto in December, 2021.CARLOS OSORIO/Reuters

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