“Luxury Tax” Hopes to Cool Property Market

Taiwan wants to pass a luxury tax in order to try and curtail wide spread property speculation and the worst wealth gap in a decade. The Taiwanese people support the move while real estate agents and the property sector do not. What do you think? You be the judge.


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Capital Markets Comeback in Full Swing

Even though this is a biased group, it definitely shows up the indicators toward more lending. George Smith Partners are a company that definitely has their pulse on the multi-family market. Lending is without question happening from the top end with the REITs and larger institutions but very stilted in the smaller asset size and secondary markets. That could easily change soon.


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ULI Panel Notes Growing Deal Flow

The great minds have decided that deal flow will pick up in 2011. I wish that we had come to the same conclusion...



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