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House prices weathering COVID storm

Due to the pandemic, there has been a small rise in house prices and rentals while other real estate values have fallen, according to a new property index. Following the same trend

25th April 2021

Cyprus/Property

Cyprus house prices up 2.4% in Q4 2020

In the fourth quarter of 2020, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 5.4% in the eurozone, 5.7% across the EU and 2.4% in Cyprus, compared with the

9th April 2021

Europe/Property

Cyprus real estate sales value dipped 32% in 2020

The total value of Cyprus real estate transactions in 2020 reached €3 bln, recording a drop of 32% compared to 2019, with Paphos feeling the worst of it while Nicosia was more

8th April 2021

Cyprus/Property

Rethinking the value and cost of real estate

This article doesn’t concern itself with the etymology of cost, price, value and worth; it focuses on the mess these terms are causing to the banking system. In everyday language, cost, price,

8th April 2021

Comment/Property

Cypriots warm to online property auctions

Online auctions of properties once-owned by banks through debt-to-asset swaps are taking off in Cyprus as property management firms see their digital sales grow during the pandemic. A private online platform, BidX1,

5th April 2021

Business/Property

Size matters when buying an apartment

There is great confusion regarding the size of apartments and how this is measured in Cyprus. Each group or developer use their own methodology of calculation, so the unsuspecting buyer does not

3rd April 2021

Comment/Property

Buying properties acquired by banks or investment funds

By Niki Tsivitanou After 2015, many properties passed into bank ownership, mainly through debt-to-asset swaps or foreclosures. Subsequently, some were acquired by credit acquiring companies, and, in the near future, more are

25th March 2021

Comment/Property

Real estate ripe for investment funds

The time is ripe, at least for an initial review, for the creation of small-scale real estate investment funds in Cyprus, based on the following: Prices have reached rock bottom for suitable

6th March 2021

Columnists/Property

Working from home alters office space dynamic

By Pavlos Loizou Based on responses from more than 4,300 office-based workers and 1,500 Senior Decision Makers on behalf of their employees surveyed across six countries, Barclays Capital believes the work from

3rd March 2021

Comment/Property

Property sales figures can lie

By Pavlos Loizou When the Department of Lands and Surveys released data on sales contracts for January, it struck me the numbers and percentages were presented without analysis, indicating the beginning of

25th February 2021

Comment/Cyprus/Property