This week China’s real estate community sees a leading player leave to become a holiday home provider, plus some new sales management at Sotheby’s and promotions at JLL, CBRE and C&W. Read on for more details.
Randall Hall is now… Read More>>
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This week China’s real estate community sees a leading player leave to become a holiday home provider, plus some new sales management at Sotheby’s and promotions at JLL, CBRE and C&W. Read on for more details.
Randall Hall is now… Read More>>

China’s housing sales fell 7.7 percent in the first quarter, the country’s property sector witnessed a record default last month, and some real estate investors couldn’t be happier.
While the nation’s property developers were busy cutting back on new construction… Read More>>

Growth in China’s housing prices continued to slow during March, and a slackening in transactions brought housing sales revenues for the quarter down 7.7 percent compared to the same period last year. And now the market slowdown seems to be… Read More>>

China’s third-largest property developer reopened the international market for Chinese real estate bonds last week with a $500 million bond issue, after the mainland’s real estate firms had fled the markets following the high profile collapse of a Ningbo developer… Read More>>

Bankruptcy and bear markets are on the way for China’s property sector in 2014 and Hang Lung Properties Chairman Ronnie Chan couldn’t be happier.
I had a chance to speak with Chan when he appeared at a Real Estate Investment… Read More>>

Australia’s biggest developer of apartments is considering an offer to sell half of its business to an unnamed Chinese real estate company for A$3 billion (US$2.8 billion) according to a recent media report.
Sydney-based Meriton Group received the offer during… Read More>>

Following a record year in 2013, transaction volumes in Asia Pacific’s commercial real estate markets slid 15 percent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2014, with the value of investment deals in China dropping 18 percent, according to a recent… Read More>>

China’s largest developer by sales has joined with a Dutch design firm to create a man-made shopping valley linking eight residential towers in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen, in Fujian province.
China Vanke’s Vankely (for Vanke alley) is designed… Read More>>

China real estate sector veteran Sam Crispin is on his way back to the UK this week after a 20-year career in the country’s property industry, and a group of veteran executives gathered in Shanghai to bid farewell to their… Read More>>

Credit ratings agency Fitch has reviewed the risks and credit-worthiness of new US dollar debt securities proposed by a subsidiary of leading China real estate developer Poly Real Estate, and given the notes a rating of BBB+. The following is… Read More>>