Affordability is likely to become more important in the real estate market to Saudis as most struggle to buy the large villas most common in the kingdom.

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Bangkok’s condominium market, slowing even before the pandemic, has hit its lowest point in a decade.

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OPINION: Since the dawn of farming, the rain has signalled renewal and hope while drought has signalled disaster and despair.

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As The Australian Financial Review has urged, Australia’s property chiefs want governments to now rapidly reopen state borders and lift remaining restrictions across most of the country. Other businesses too need to urge workers and shoppers back to the office towers, warehouses and retail malls that will drive Australia’s economy out of recession and into a brighter recovery. Transmission of COVID-19 is now at negligible levels outside Victoria, with no new cases of community transmission in NSW yesterday and all others in quarantine.

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A senior bank economist says we’re still in a “phoney war” stage of the Covid-induced economic crisis.

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