Homes

WHAT'S NEXT?: The number of smart homes is expected to grow further and by 2020 it is expected 46.2 million homes in the US and 44.9 million in Europe will be classed as smart homes. By 2022 there could be nearly 500 smart devices that can be connected to a smart home.

[New] In Florida, losses from flooding could devalue homes by between 15 percent and 35 percent by 2050, which would devastate local tax revenue and make long-term borrowing unavailable.
[New] The economy still looks set for a pretty challenging 2020 and there will still be appreciable uncertainties, including on the UK-EU relationship front, meaning the upside for house prices in 2020 is likely to be limited.
[New] A group of industry stakeholders is urging the Trump administration to take action to ensure adequate supplies of fuel for freight and air travel and home heating in advance of a change in the type of fuel the maritime industry will use beginning next year.
[New] Next year will bring more interesting fruit and vegetable flours (like banana) into home pantries, with products such as cauliflower flour in bulk and baking aisles, rather than already baked into crusts and snack products.
[New] The World Bank predicts that 40 percent of the world's population will need new housing and basic infrastructure in the next 14 years.
[New] Given Orlando's projected population growth for the coming 5 years, it does not come as a surprise that the majority of respondents (a whopping 75%) recommend buying multi-family homes for investment.
[New] Like many other major cities in the 2020 US housing market, Charlotte is currently suffering from a lack of supply and limited housing inventory: Home prices could continue to rise over the months ahead and into 2020.
[New] While 8K will remain out of reach for the vast majority of US households, new television sales are trending solidly towards 4K, HDR-ready sets utilizing OLED technology.
[New] A Future Homes Standard, to be introduced by 2025, will require new build homes to be future proofed with low carbon heating and world leading levels of energy efficiency.
[New] 2025 will see new build homes future-proofed with low carbon heating and world leading standards of energy efficiency by 2025.
[New] Global Sensors in the Smart Home market 2019 research study presents a statistics overview of the industry including definitions, classifications, risk factors, opportunities, technological growth and recent developments in Sensors in the Smart Home market.
[New] Revenue from the smart home market is expected to show an annual growth rate of 17.6 percent, resulting in a global market volume of more than $141 billion by 2023.
[New] The Indian IoT market is expected to touch $9 billion by 2020 across sectors such as telecom, health, vehicles and homes, among others.
[New] US housing appears poised to take a leading role in real GDP growth over the forecast horizon for the first time in years, further bolstering our modest-but-solid growth forecasts through 2021.
[New] A separate study by the National University of Singapore projected that by 2050, Singapore would be home to one million diabetics if current trends continue.
[New] Sub-Saharan Africa has a huge opportunity to boost growth, create jobs and improve social stability thanks to a burgeoning population that will be home to 25% of the under-25 global population by 2025.
[New] Unlike the vast majority of the best real estate markets for investing in the US, the Philadelphia housing market 2020 will be dominated by townhouses, not single family homes.
[New] There were concerns earlier this year that the NDAA might fail for the first time in 58 years over steep divides between the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Republican-controlled Senate over Trump's policies.
The City of Toronto is developing a new Action Plan to address the full spectrum of housing issues in Toronto now, to 2030.
The next year will follow a jam-packed 2019, as markets surged from January lows despite trade war escalation, flashing recession warnings, the US House of Representative's impeachment inquiry, and slowing economic growth around the world.
Combined with higher crude runs, the loss of HSFO demand from bunkers will send the global residual fuels market into oversupply in 2020 and 2021, forcing excess resid to find a home in power generation.
With a third of Londoners now renting and by 2025, 60% of Londoners expected to be renting, new home building cannot keep pace with the demand for rental homes, which explains the soaring popularity of London's many new residential developments.
One out of three U.S. households will be headed by someone over 65 by 2035, and by 2038, the number of heads of households aged 70 to 79 will hit 10.7 million, with the number of 80-and-over households projected to reach 17.5 million.

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Last updated: 25 January 2020