Owner of real estate and investment agencies in China and Europe, Long Fang Hu, illustrates to idealista / news the actuality of the Chinese real estate market after the outbreak of the covid-19. Long Fang Hu explains that used house prices have fallen by 30% and that the pace of sales has fallen between 10% and 30% in January and February. However, in March there was a slight recovery in activity and the rental market remained almost stable.
In this period, in which coronavirus has obliged us to change our habits, a thing over everything has come to light: the problem of over-pollution. While we were closed at home, doing our duty to avoid the spread of the contagion, we saw the nature taking a sigh of relief. We saw videos of wild animals that walked undisturbed along the streets of towns, the water of canals in Venice becoming clear, dolphins playing near the docks of ports. Personally, I experienced a night of absolute silence, then another one where in the only sound was the rain falling on the balcony and on the ground. Now that phase 2 is started and gradually we’re moving again, I ask myself how pollution situation will evolve: will we adopt more green behaviours?
Thailand’s tourism industry seems to have grown exponentially over the last 40 years. In fact, the last time we saw fewer than 10 million visitors in a year was in 2001, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.