Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
China’s producer price index (PPI) contracted 1.6 percent year on year in January, following a 1.4-percent drop in December, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Friday.
The index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, has… Read More>>
Assets under management by China’s trust industry grew by 46 percent during 2013, as the industry — and seemingly the nations’s investors managed to shrug off the potential for default in the country’s loosely regulated shadow banking industry.
The China… Read More>>
Revenues for Singaporean retail developer CapitaMalls Asia dropped 8.7 percent during the fourth quarter of 2013, due mainly to a slow down in China, the company said in a statement this week.
According the most recent financial results for the… Read More>>
China’s trade surplus jumped 14 percent year-on-year in January to $31.86 billion amid signs of slowing economy, data showed Wednesday.
January exports rose 10.6 percent year-on-year to $207.13 billion U.S. dollars while imports increased 10 percent to $175.27 billion, the… Read More>>
China will step up efforts to investigate and punish any cases of falsified statistics, the country’s chief statistician said in remarks published on Wednesday, highlighting the issue of reliability of Chinese data.
The accuracy of economic statistics in general in… Read More>>
Higher mortgage rates and vanishing loan discounts may make it harder for China’s real estate developers to sell homes this year, as the government continues to rely on financial sector restrictions to slow down the real estate market.
Without introducing… Read More>>
A change in rules restricting pre-sale of luxury housing in China is likely to drive more high-end transactions in 2014, especially as China’s wealthy individuals confront policies that limit the quantity of homes they can purchase.
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While many analysts are predicting tougher times for China’s real estate industry in 2014, at least by one gauge the country’s property developers still believe that there is money to be made.
According to a report in today’s Wall Street… Read More>>
A Chinese developer is teaming up with the company behind one of Singapore’s Sentosa casinos to invest US$2.2 billion in a new gambling-centred project in South Korea, the companies announced this week.
The joint venture between Genting Singapore Plc and… Read More>>
Chinese investment in UK real estate didn’t just make headlines in China last year, according to one recent report, the flow of Chinese wealth into downtown London is a top global trend.
Chinese investors were behind a number of attention-grabbing… Read More>>
