A report from the Daily Mail on Canada. "Flashbacks to college homes often bring up memories of tiny dorm rooms filled with bunk beds and cramped apartments falling apart at the seams. But many Vancouver college students are currently living in mansions for less than $1,000 a month thanks to the country's new taxes on empty homes."

"Chinese investors have been hit hard by both a foreign buyers' tax and a municipal vacancy tax, and they're turning to students for a solution. Isaiah Boodhoo, 22, is one of those students. oodhoo resides at The Castle, a nine-bedroom home shared by 14 students that is owned by an Afghani pop star. The stunning residence features glass chandeliers, a steam room, and a billiards table."

"Boodhoo's rent? Just $825 USD a month. 'Honestly, I would stay here for as long as I could,' he told Bloomberg. '$1,000 bucks for all this?'"

"And Boodhoo isn't the only student getting lucky in Vancouver.  Vancouver realtor Steve Saretsky revealed that some $3million USD homes are renting for just $3,369 USD a month. Some prospective renters are even calling realtors with offers to help maintain or do gardening at a home in exchange for absolutely no rent at all."

"It didn't always used to be like this, of course. Just a few years ago, Vancouver was the most unaffordable city in North America. The housing market was then hit with a number of new taxes in 2016, which has driven prices down 17 percent in Canada's richest neighborhood."

"While the new market has been a renter's dream, it's been a nightmare for sellers. One Canadian-Chinese homeowner is trying to sell a mansion that could cost her more than $104,000 in annual taxes. But while the home is listed for $8,161,841 USD, it's currently only getting offers for $4,642,515 USD."

"But the market has become a 'candy store' for home buyers now, driving down prices to figures that just years ago would have been unimaginable. Robin Rickards, 64, recently purchased a home for almost $748,792 less than the asking price. In 2016, Brandon Chapman, 28, couldn't even afford a one-bedroom condo. Now he's looking at detached homes."

"'We haven't closed on anything, but the market in my opinion is still trending down,' Chapman said. 'So why would I rush into buying something if I don't need it this second?'"

From Asia One on Malaysia. "A man unhappy with the alleged sub-standard quality of his brand-new serviced apartment vented his frustration the only way he knew how - by taking a sledgehammer to the floor and spray paint to the furniture. In a video which has gone viral on social media, the man, believed to be Malaysian, first demonstrates the difficulty in opening and closing the bedroom and bathroom sliding doors."

"The property in question appears to be the freehold Tropicana The Residences condominium located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. With a can of red spray paint in hand, he shows his displeasure over the flooring defects by spray-painting on the marble tiles found to be cracked or chipped, while complaining, 'You sold this to me at RM2 million?' A check online showed a one-bedder 714 sq ft unit going for RM1.8 million (S$591,474)."

"Things took a more drastic turn in the video, where the man is seen wearing protective headgear and eyeglasses. urning his attention to a sidetable which appears to be detachable from the headboard, he noted: 'Impeccable taste? This is an afterthought.'"

"'You give me this kind of sofa,' he says, before spray-painting over the couch. 'You don't even have a curtain rod, you call this a luxurious apartment,' he vented, marking a red 'X' on the curtains. 'This is definitely not acceptable to me.'"

"In the final few minutes of the video, the man rants: 'Your 'impeccable taste', you want me to accept, I don't accept... I don't need you to pay me, I don't like it,' adding that he intends to use the trashed apartment as a 'showflat' for other potential buyers and owners."

From The Guardian on Australia. "A Sydney real estate listing has drawn equal parts praise and ridicule for a custom-made two-minute video described as 'so breathtakingly horrific that it borders on art.'"

"The lavish cinematic offering, for a four-bedroom house in Padstow, shows a couple dancing through the property, prowling across their kitchen benchtop, awkwardly swimming, and then settling into bed – all to a pounding dance music soundtrack."

"The video, which was produced by a third party company, was removed and re-uploaded with a new backing song this morning, after it went viral. On Twitter, it was described as unnecessarily sexual, incredibly funny and 'the most real estate agent video I have ever seen.'"

"'Oh my: this is the perfect video for the late cycle phase of the Australian housing bubble' https://m.realestate.com.au/property-house . Floorplan analysis also found that anybody using the toilet would have been visible from the kitchen, and vice versa. "