Comments on: House price correction threatens EU growth

By: Mark Knowles

Mark Knowles — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:01:46 +0000

Martin – Yes, there are all sorts of reports available, much more comprehensive than zillow, which seems to have very little information, and the other site you mention, which still seems to be in development. But the EU is a big place and most of the reports tend to cover specific areas or cities. Which ones are you interested in?

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:58:08 +0000

I would be interested if there is available historical price data for the EU, like http://www.zillow.com/ or (what I have found so far for the EU) http://www.residentialprices.info/ ? This site seems to be fairly incomplete, if you look for example there http://www.residentialprices.info/report/es/ even avg. price/sq.m. is missing.

By: House price correction threatens EU growth « International Property Investment

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:43:15 +0000

[...] An unexpectedly sharp correction in house prices resulting from the global credit squeeze poses a significant risk to growth in Europe, according to the European Commission.The European Union’s executive arm forecast a gradual slowdown in growth from 2007 to 2008 but said continuing financial market turmoil meant the risks were “clearly tilted to the downside”.Among the threats it identifies is a worsening of the financial turmoil that could hit housing markets in Europe as well as the US “thereby deepening and prolonging the ongoing corrections”.So far, those European countries that saw the fastest growth in house prices, such as the UK, Spain, Ireland and France, have generally seen an orderly slowdown this year. Read more. [...]