House prices in Dubai market has foundered in the past year and in the Baltics, it is also bad. In Central Europe and in Israel has the prices are rising.

It is the UK valuation firm Knight Frank, which has produced a summary of the global housing market. The company has looked into the prices of houses between the third quarter of 2009 and the same period last year.

Overall, the world’s housing markets have recovered over the past year and more than two thirds of the 42 countries that Knight Frank unit has experienced price increases over the last three months. Despite this, the average price levels are lower in 60 percent of the country than they were a year ago:

“House prices will now rise in a clear majority of the countries included in the study. This can be compared with the second quarter, when prices rose in 50 percent of the countries,” says Liam Bailey, head of house analysis at Knight Frank.

Most of all has the prices raised in Israel. Here has the prices going up an average of 14 percent. Although Malta and Alpine countries Switzerland and Austria have seen sharp increases in house prices over the past year. During the last quarter, have the housing market in Singapore increased strongest and climbed by over 15 percent.

Sweden is among the countries in the minus column. The Swedish house prices have dropped, with 0.4 percent during the past year. This puts Sweden in the middle of the table.

Dubai has the worst problem. Prices have almost halves in the Emirate over twelve months.   With this place Dubai itself at the bottom of the list, before the two Baltic states of Estonia and Lithuania and Bulgaria.

Knight Frank also notes that several countries in Europe have not yet seen rising house prices during a single quarter after the credit crisis. These include Spain Ireland and Denmark.

Footnote. Knight Frank house price index is compiled using official data from each county’s statistical agency.

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A couple of weeks ago come news that Dubai World, which is behind Dubai’s extravagant construction of artificial islands and giant skyscrapers, suspend payments in six months.

Because of the massive State interference in the company has data led to speculation that the Dubai state should halt payments, or at least that the state is unable to guarantee Dubai World’s commitment.  The conglomerate Dubai World has asked for debt restructuring and extension of credit from lenders to May 2010.

More problems, Nakheel, a property development company owned by Dubai World, reported during its first six months of its fiscal year broken a loss of 13.4 billion dirhams. This corresponds to a loss of 3.7 billion U.S. dollars.

Last week had Dubai World talks with a number of banks to restructure 26 billion dollars in debt, which includes a bond for 3.5 billion U.S. dollars issued by Nakheel. The bond will expire on 14 December. The government of Dubai announced that it will pay 4.1 billion U.S. dollars to cover the liabilities of property developer Nakheel.

Every week come new information about the finance crisis in Dubai, and in this new finance crisis are all the banks in the world involved in.  Every bank around the world has borrowed out money to Dubai spectacular building companies and the other building project in Dubai like The World islands, Waterfront, the subway, the ski slope, Palm Deira, Maritime City and many more fantasy project. Now have the banks understand there that they maybe don’t going to get the money back. The rich oil states around Dubai are not willing to pay the bill; they are going too asked for debt restructuring and extension of credit.

The affect are, that our mortgage in Spain and Europe is going to be higher and no new mortgage to clients. So here in Marbella and the rest of Spain, it’s going to be more apartments and villas for sale on the market to lower prices, the banks have to take over more properties which they must sell to any prices, so the prices is going down more.

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The Property market in Dubai leads the current financial crisis league. Nowhere has real estate values plummeted as steep as in the previously booming Persian Gulf coast. House prices dived in Dubai by 32 percent during the last twelve months. The properties prices on the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah (Dubai Palm Island) outside Dubai is now down to its lowest level in three years. It costs only 2.450 dollar/square meter to buy a house among the luxury villas, hotels and shops on the palm-shaped island.

It is 60 percent less than for only six months ago and the lowest square meter prices in three years. Meanwhile, rents in the area has lost a third in the spring since March. Previous twelve-month period was a red-hot market, where the prices rose by 48 percent. This means that Dubai in a year has gone from being the world’s fastest growing real estate market to the world’s second worst. Only depressed Latvia house prices fell more.

Shortly thereafter came the U.S. and the UK with house price falls of around 18 percent.

The much smaller list of markets with rising property prices, top the report with Israel, which increased by 11 percent during the period. Deuce and three in the list is the Czech Republic and tax paradise Jersey in the English Channel.