Property Prices Quotes

The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.

It's impossible for the government to curb property prices.

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

For resident stability, I fully agree with the government's stance that stabilizing the housing market should be the first and foremost step.

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

I already own two houses - one in Malad and another in Thane - but I sold off the Thane apartment and bought one in Bandra, because it was convenient and larger than my other homes.

The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.

I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

The 'Shoreditchification' of certain areas, although it's seen as a negative by some, has actually been very positive for parts of London.

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.

Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

When we talk about a city's cost of living, we don't mean food, transportation, or clothing, which cost about the same everywhere. We mean housing.

I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

It's impossible to know precisely what constitutes the right house price but I do know that house prices doubling or even tripling over a 10 year period caused a lot of people to find that getting a foot on the housing ladder is near on impossible.