China Revives Plans for Real Estate Investment Trusts, Report Says
Fran Wang via Caixin | China’s drive to boost the housing rental market is spurring the revival of plans to let companies offer real estate investment trusts (REITs) to the public.
Fran Wang via Caixin | China’s drive to boost the housing rental market is spurring the revival of plans to let companies offer real estate investment trusts (REITs) to the public.
Spain’s property sector continues generating good news: housing purchases over the last two years have been rising at double digit rates, prices increasing ten months in a row around 4%. Real estate companies as well as Socimis underlie behind this positive trend. Merlin Properties is a top pick in the real estate sector. It has a portfolio of top quality, diversified assets.
ATL Capital |For most people, the summer is a time for relaxing and taking a well-earned break from work. But it can also bring instability and suprises in the stock markets. While August has been a negative month for investments for the last eight years, it’s September which is traditionally the worst summertime month.
The new 5 billion euros highway investment plan, which includes the collaboration of private capital, presented today by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will go some way to rectifying the slump in public works tenders which has continued over the last few months.
Of its total exports, Spain only sells 5% of high-technology products overseas, or 1.65% of GDP. The country needs to boost investment in high-tech goods and services.
Despite the success of the Brexit vote last June, the indicators show that 2016 has not only not been a bad year, but has been one of the best in terms of bilateral Spanish-UK economic relations. Spanish exports reached record highs, despite the pound’s depreciation. And Spanish companies are committed to maintaining investments in the UK.
Chinese investors want to make money and insist on having good information. Data applications are appearing on demand and there is a record level of collaboration on information amongst big businessmen.
In 2016, Spain was once again the European country which received the most funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB), for a total of 11.5 billion euros, in terms of investment per unit of GDP or, in other words, in relation to the size of its economy.
Fernando Rodríguez | Robo advisors will move $2.2 billion in the US in 2020, with annual growth of 68%, according to the consultancy firm A.T.Kearney. And companies like Feelcapital, Indexa, Finizens and TechRules are boosting this business in Spain.
Miguel Ángel Tramullas | The price of second-hand homes is recovering in Spain, in part driven by the interest of investors who are buying in the big cities to then rent the property out, as a viable option given the lack of alternative investments.