Dan Yian, a real estate agent in Chongqing, the largest city in southwestern China, said that the volume of housing transactions there had slowed by 20 to 30percentt so far this year.
In both January and February the volume of housing sales fell sharply from the previous month.Since late last year the government has been deploying some of its usual tactics to cool the market, such as bigger down-payment requirements for second homes and the reimposition of a sales tax for properties sold within five years.
Whilst sophisticated water meters are available that can, in theory, measure the volume of in-house and outside house water usage at individual taps, their use is somewhat problematic in an extensive household water usage survey.
The very first thing I did was remove the tiles to recover the simplicity and volume of the house.
The total volume of summer house sales in the past 12 months here was 7.3 billion Swedish kronor, or $1.1 billion.
My aunt's stuff, my uncle's stuff, my grandfather's stuff, and Grandma's second husband's stuff filled, I'd estimate, about half the total volume of the house.
Mr. Case, the Wellesley economist, said he was heartened by the minimal pace of housing starts by builders and the exuberant sales volume of existing houses.
Power, who says the demolition of the Heygate has served only to exacerbate the housing shortage in Southwark, makes the obvious – but strangely ignored – point that the volume of social housing should reflect general economic conditions.
But Mr Oxley thinks the volume of new housing is only one factor affecting the real issue, which is affordability, or rather the lack of it.Average house prices in Britain did not correct themselves by as much as America's after the credit crunch, despite a similar housing bubble fuelled by cheap loans.
But he warned about the uncertainties surrounding the forthcoming general election and hit out at the "slow and tedious process" of obtaining planning approvals which "is the biggest single obstacle to the industry increasing the volume of new houses that the country needs".
