Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Leading real estate consultancy CBRE released a podcast recently on Asia’s commercial real estate market which foresees healthy growth for the region, despite the global downturn.
As reported last week in Toronto’s Globe and Mail (nice to see that someone’s… Read More>>
Considering that my day-job is running China’s largest online marketplace for industrial real estate, I spend a great deal of time helping to promote China’s industrial parks. However, this week I noticed a headline in the China Daily that even… Read More>>
In case anyone was still unclear which direction China’s residential real estate market is heading, data released by the National Statistics Bureau this weekend showed real estate prices dropping the most this year during the month of November. Perhaps more… Read More>>
An announcement by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on December 16th made clear that China’s capital plans to keep in place restrictions on the residential real estate market designed to control housing prices. However, the Commission also… Read More>>
Luxury residential developer Star River announced on its website recently that it would be offering rebates of 15 to 20 percent or more to buyers of units in its new projects in Shanghai. In order to prevent having unhappy recent… Read More>>
During the past few months there has begun to be more speculation that China would soon relax regulations designed to dampen the real estate sector. However, investors anticipating a return to the rapid sales and startlingly price growth of 2009… Read More>>
China’s overheated real-estate market has become a source of fascination and dread for investors. With a significant share of the economy tied up in construction, and global commodity prices hanging on Chinese demand, the recent drop… Read More>>
As someone who builds online real estate applications for a living I was amazed to see the latest addition to Baidu’s online resources today when the company announced that it was adding floor plans of building interiors to its Baidu… Read More>>
Today I had the pleasure of hearing Shaun Rein speak at a meeting of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club, and considering that Shaun is known as one of China’s most outspoken bulls, he was surprising pessimistic about the country’s prospects… Read More>>
