Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Increasing investor pessimism about China’s real estate market has put a scare into at least one of the world’s largest credit agencies, as Moody’s Investor Service this week downgraded the country’s property sector from stable to negative.
In a report… Read More>>
Asian investors seem to have discovered Germany’s real estate market last year as purchases of Germany property reached $1.27 billion in 2013.
While still a fraction of the sums put into the US or UK markets, the new investment record… Read More>>
In what could be a sign of changing government attitudes towards regulating the country’s property market, a high level Chinese government economist this week recommended cutting bank reserve requirements, as well as other changes in monetary policy in order to… Read More>>
Real estate consultancy Knight Frank this week announced David Ji as its new head of Research & Consultancy for Greater China.
Ji has taken charge of Knight Frank’s research and consultancy efforts after Thomas Lam, who previously ran the division… Read More>>
New York Stock Exchange-listed developer Xinyuan Real Estate (NYSE:XIN) announced on Friday that its contracted sales had dropped to $273.9 million in the first quarter of this year, a 53 percent fall compared to the same period last year,… Read More>>
Official figures released this week indicate that housing prices in China continue to cool down, although a majority of the country’s largest cities still see prices rising.
According to the latest survey by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, average home… Read More>>
The $300 million Star Mall Shenyang Plaza is due to hold its grand opening in northeastern China on the 24th of this month, illustrating continued investor faith in the future of China’s retail sector.
The 325,000 square metre shopping centre… Read More>>
The depressing economics of China’s housing bubble are going viral on the Weibo microblogging platform this week as a series of maps is sparking discussion among the country’ netizens about the unaffordability of homes nationwide.
The maps, which compare and… Read More>>
China’s most diversified investor took a step into Japan’s recovering real estate market last week when it bought real estate investment management company IDERA Capital Management Ltd from Japanese private equity firm Unison Capital. The deal was announced on IDERA’s… Read More>>
This week Asia’s real estate community sees a number of agency people hopping to new shops across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, as well as new opportunities for professionals at developers, design firms and finance companies across the region…. Read More>>
