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In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending April 10th, 2021... an economic forecast from the International Monetary Fund, home price growth around the world, and a survey on having pets at work. Economic News We begin with economic news from this past week, and an upbeat forecast from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF raised its 2021 U.S. economic outlook from 5.1% to 6.4%. It expects to see a slowdown next year to 4.4% which is stronger than the Federal Reserve’s 3.3% prediction. The IMF also expects that pandemic-related losses for other major economies will be smaller than what we saw after the financial crisis. It is expecting global growth to be just slightly less than the U.S. this year, and about the same next year. The IMF also expressed support for the Fed’s “go slow” policy on interest rate hikes and tapering. The IMF’s chief economist, Gita Gopinath, says: “They have pledged to, kind of, given sufficient advance warning if they are going to reverse course… so we expect that would hap