Jay Clayton To Become Top US Intel Official On Monday

Renter Nation Returns? Multi-Family Unit Starts & Permits Soar In April On the back of a small uptick in homebuilder confidence (though still languishing)... ...Building Permits jumped notably (+5.8% MoM vs +2.5% exp) in preliminary April data (while Housing Starts dipped 2.8% MoM, though less than the 5.2% MoM decline expected)... The pace of starts and permits on a SAAR basis has remained flat for four years... Multi-family unit starts and permits soared in April... As single-family home starts stagnate... It appears builders believe that 'Renter Nation' is on its way back. ...

A Model For Europe? Switzerland Moves To Strengthen Country Against Foreign Property Owners And Migration Via Remix News, Foreign property owners will see their access to Swiss housing significantly reduced, as the Federal Council has decided to require authorization for their purchases. With foreigners accounting for more and more real estate transactions in the Western world, Switzerland’s tough measures may be a template for other nations. The new measure aims to combat the housing shortage, especially as the population is set to vote in two months on the Swiss People’s Party’s (SVP)...

Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the […]