Real Estate and Insurance Sectors

Insurance Market Reports cover over 170 territories and are the product of extensive research by Axco research consultants and provide comprehensive insight into all aspects of Non-Life (P&C) and Life & Benefits insurance markets on a per-country basis, including all major lines of business and essential legislative, insurance regulatory and tax compliance information.

(IFC and World Bank only). Formerly ISI Emerging Markets and EMIS Intelligence. Delivers company and industry information, relevant proprietary content, reports, statistics, fundamental news, customised alerts, an advanced search engine, and analytics to help understand emerging markets more clearly. 100+ emerging countries covered.

Factiva, a Dow Jones company, provides global news and business information to all World Bank Group and IMF staff. Factiva service is for internal use only. Registration is required. Users can search 33,000 authoritative sources in different language interfaces.

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EIU news and reports regarding insurance sectors

CBRE Research provides thoughtful, forward-looking insight into real estate trends, strategies and opportunities around the world to guide our clients in achieving distinctive and substantial performance.

Commercial real estate market insight is the essential ingredient in all of the services Colliers International offers. We monitor and identify commercial property trends and deliver projections to help you make critical decisions for your business's future

Real Estate and Retail market reports

Reports on commercial real estate markets around the world. Site may require registration, but registration is free.

With over 110 years’ experience, we provide our clients with global coverage via 417 offices and over 13,000 people throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas, focusing on all the prime residential and commercial property markets of the world.

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Includes brief profiles of leasing sector in selected countries.

(IFC and World Bank only). Formerly ISI Emerging Markets and EMIS Intelligence. Delivers company and industry information, relevant proprietary content, reports, statistics, fundamental news, customised alerts, an advanced search engine, and analytics to help understand emerging markets more clearly. 100+ emerging countries covered.

Factiva, a Dow Jones company, provides global news and business information to all World Bank Group and IMF staff. Factiva service is for internal use only. Registration is required. Users can search 33,000 authoritative sources in different language interfaces.

The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) has been operating as an independent think tank in South Africa since May 2014, pursuing its mission of making Africa’s housing finance markets work. CAHF’s work extends across the continent, and it is supported by and collaborates with a range of funders and partners.

The Global Housing Watch tracks developments in housing markets across the world on a quarterly basis. It provides current data on house prices as well as metrics used to assess valuation in housing markets, such as house price‑to‑rent and house-price‑to‑income ratios.

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monthly informed analysis on world property markets

A GLOBAL RESOURCE FOR HOUSING FINANCE INFORMATION
The Housing Finance Information Network (HOFINET) is a quality-assured web portal that consolidates regularly updated international housing finance knowledge in one central, easily accessible place.

The Housing Development Agency (HDA) is a national public sector development agency that acquires and prepares land as well as develop the land and project manage the development of housing and human settlements. We carry out our activities in partnership with a range of stakeholders including national, provincial and local government and municipalities, as well as with communities, developers, financiers and other affected parties. Established in 2009, the Agency is established by an Act of Parliament in 2008 and is accountable through its board to the Minister of Human Settlements.

is a worldwide networking organisation that enables its members to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in housing finance from around the world and to learn from each other’s experiences. The Union currently comprises 104 members covering 49 different countries.

an independent member-based association of 21 social housing institutions (SHIs) across South Africa and 2 support organisations.
"Ensure that the Social Housing sector grows and is strong and sustainable"

The UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management works to promote