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State Bank says no to negotiable-interest loans
The Sate Bank of Vietnam had told credit organizations not to release negotiable-interest loans to customers investing in real estate and financial assets like gold, foreign currencies and stocks.
Bahrain property shifts focus to low-income housing
Bahraini real estate developers are eying investments in the country's low-income housing market to ride out a dearth of demand for high-end residences, executives said.
US new home sales slip back again
The annual rate of US new home sales fell unexpectedly in September, raising doubts about the strength of the housing sector's recovery
Halloween scare as home sales slump
Back-to-back holiday weekends and policy changes may have taken a toll on home sales. New data recording a plunge in home sales suggest that Hong Kong's hot housing market has had two very chilly weekends - on the Chung Yeung and Halloween weekends, and after government steps to squelch a potential property bubble.
Stable basic interest rate predicted
Lao Dong reports that economic experts predict that the basic interest rate is not likely to be raised prior to the third quarter of 2010.