Canada’s Citizenship Certificate Wait Jumps to 33 Months as 136,000 Applications Pile Up
IRCC's processing-time estimate for a citizenship certificate has jumped to 33 months, with 136,000 applications pending, as ProPakistani and Business...
Fitch Upgrades Portugal’s Sovereign Rating to A+, Outlook Stable
Fitch upgraded Portugal's sovereign credit rating from A to A+ with a stable outlook, its highest grade since March 2011.
Greece to Raise Property Transfer Tax to 15% for Non-EU Buyers From January 2027
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that the property transfer tax for non-EU buyers will rise from 3% to 15% from...
UK annual house price growth edges up to 1.6% in August
UK annual house price growth rose to 1.6% in August, from a downwardly revised 1.4% in July, Nationwide's latest House...
Seoul’s property tax package is being softened. The market stopped trading anyway.
On 1 September, South Korea's cabinet approved a property tax package that is milder than the one announced a month...
Portugal posted the world’s fastest real house price growth while global prices fell
Portugal recorded the strongest annual rise in real house prices among the 57 economies tracked by the Bank for International...
A US judge blocks the birthright citizenship order — as the passport paperwork behind it surfaces
Two things happened on 2 September on the same policy thread, and they point in opposite directions.
UK regulator finds the liquidity gap in alternative funds sits in property
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published analysis of more than 11,000 alternative investment funds accessible to UK investors and...
Stamp duty is holding back millions of UK moves, lender research finds
Yorkshire Building Society has published research arguing that stamp duty is deterring millions of people from moving home and weighing...
China ends its 32-year tax exemption on foreign individuals’ dividends
From 1 September 2026, dividends and bonuses that foreign individuals receive from foreign-invested enterprises in China are subject to a...
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