Salient to Investors: European countries including the UK, Denmark and Switzerland are enacting policies to stem housing bubbles, yet with German mortgage volumes at the highest in 16 years, Germans are taking out smaller home loans and repaying them faster as prudent borrowers and lenders bet that record-low interest rates
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: German apartment portfolios valued at $18.8 billion changed hands in 2013, the most since 2006. German homes have been targeted by investors seeking to profit from steady rental income that is supported by a growing economy and low unemployment. CBRE said companies spent 23 percent more on
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Continued stimulus on cooling global growth led by weakening in developing nations amid stagnant inflation and job growth in much of the industrial world risks inflating asset bubbles central bankers will have to face later. Talk of unsustainable home-price increases is spreading from Germany to New Zealand,
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