Market
What is happening in property, dated and explained.
Renting in New South Wales: rent rises, lease endings and pets
New South Wales now limits rent rises to one a year, makes landlords give a reason to end a lease and puts a 21-day clock on pet requests. What the state's own pages say.
Foreign buyers of Singapore homes in figures since the 60% duty
What consultancies and ministers have published on foreign and permanent resident buyers of Singapore private homes since April 2023, from market share to treaty remissions and audits.
Singapore's Government Land Sales programme: how the two lists work
How Singapore sells State land to developers: the half-yearly programme, the Confirmed and Reserve Lists, the tender, the deadlines that follow, and the second-half 2026 figures.
Singapore: state chalet in Pasir Ris reopens as 380-room co-living hotel
A 1980s government chalet on state land in Pasir Ris now runs as Coliwoo Resort Changi. How the tender worked, what it costs in rent and who the rooms are for.
Singapore property auctions in figures: listings, sales and sellers
What Singapore's auction desks publish each quarter: how many properties are put up, how few sell under the hammer, and how lenders came to supply most of the list.
Seized Sentosa Cove bungalows: what a foreign buyer must clear first
Three forfeited landed properties in Singapore's Sentosa Cove are for sale by expression of interest. A foreign buyer needs state approval and pays 60% stamp duty on top of the price.
What goes into a tenancy agreement in Singapore: the CEA template
The Council for Estate Agencies' template tenancy agreement clause by clause: deposit, repairs, air-conditioning, early exit and inventory, then stamping, commission and the Small Claims Tribunals.
How to read Singapore's official home price indices and supply data
What the URA price and rental indices, the vacancy and pipeline tables and the HDB resale price index measure, when each comes out, and what none of them can say.
South Australia's auction rules: bidders, vendor bids and the Form 1
How a residential auction runs in South Australia: who must register to bid, how the reserve and vendor bids work, what dummy bidding is, and why there is no cooling-off.
South Australia and Western Australia: the 7% foreign buyer duties
Both states add 7% to a foreign buyer's duty bill on a home, but they test companies, trusts, land and later changes of status differently. The rules, side by side.
Texas property tax sales: bidding, deeds and the right to redeem
How a Texas tax sale runs under Tax Code chapters 33 and 34: the first-Tuesday auction, the bidder's tax statement, the officer's deed, redemption premiums and excess proceeds.
What US$100,000 rents: a Memphis house, a San Jose one-bedroom
A Zillow analysis of 7 October sets a US$2,500 rent budget against the 50 largest US metros: four bedrooms in Memphis, 650 square feet in San Jose.
AFIDA in the United States: how foreign owners report farmland
A foreign person who takes an interest in US agricultural land has 90 days to tell the Department of Agriculture. Who is covered, what counts as farmland, and what a late report costs.
How a US foreclosure auction works, from the 120-day rule to the sale
Federal rules set when a US mortgage servicer may start a foreclosure and when a sale must wait. State law sets the notices, the auction, redemption and deficiency.
How to read the weekly US mortgage rate: Freddie Mac's survey and APR
What Freddie Mac's weekly survey of US mortgage rates measures since November 2022, which loans it averages, and how it differs from a lender's quote and from an APR.
How to read US house price measures: FHFA index and Census medians
The FHFA index said US house prices rose 2.6% in a year while the Census median new home price fell 5.8%. What each official measure counts, and why they part.
US new-build homes: builder warranties and the federal rules
What a builder warranty covers on a new US home, where federal warranty law stops, the FHA and VA completion form, the builder's lender under RESPA and the land sales act.
How Section 8 vouchers work for private landlords in the United States
A guide to the Housing Choice Voucher programme from the owner's side: unit approval, inspections, rent tests, the payment contract, lease terms and ending a tenancy.
US tenant screening reports: a landlord's duties under the FCRA
What the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act asks of US landlords who buy tenant screening reports, and of the companies that sell them: purpose, notices, accuracy, time limits and disposal.
How the US Treasury and Marshals sell forfeited real estate
Forfeited homes and land in the United States are sold by two federal bodies on different terms. Deposits, online bidding, closing, deeds and default, as their own documents set them.