Due to the decrease in real-estate transactions, even the public notaries have to suffer.
In the first semester of 2009, over 45000 fewer real-estate transactions have been recorded, compared to the same period of last year.
Due to the decrease in real-estate transactions, realtors are not the only ones to suffer. Public notaries have recorded consistent drops in the amounts cashed in as taxes for the real-estate transactions revenues.
In the first trimester of this year, according to the National Union of Public Notaries, over 45000 less transactions have been recorded, significantly less than in the same period of 2008. Implicitly, the amounts cashed in by the notaries are lower than in the same period last year.
08/04/2010 March has brought an unexpected increase in the level of average prices for old properties in the Capital City, and also in other large cities, according the the monitoring reports of one of the most important websites that specialize in this profile. Though statistically real, acoording to real-estate analysts, this increase has no relevance.
07/04/2010 The world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, has been re-opened for the public after 2 months since several visitors were jammed in the elevator at floor #124.
01/04/2010 An ecological house conserves or deposits more resources than it consumes, these being then reused in the surrounding environment. At the opposite pole, the standard house consumes more energy and is less resistant to earthquakes.
