Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China’s State Council, the equivalent of the country’s cabinet, issued new rules on overseas investment on Friday, August 18th, which restrict investment in real estate, hotels and other sectors.
In the document, the top level central government body divides potential investment… Read More>>
Developers enticed by Shanghai’s burgeoning tech and service sectors are betting that the city needs more offices, with nearly a quarter million square metres of new space being added to the city centre last quarter, according to figures compiled by… Read More>>
Sunac China has become the latest deal-hungry conglomerate to draw scrutiny from China’s regulators, with domestic banks reviewing the Tianjin-based developer’s credit risk following its decision to buy $9.3 billion worth of property assets from Dalian Wanda Group.
The China… Read More>>
Faced with skyrocketing housing prices in 2016, during the first half of this year, China implemented a fresh round of measures aimed at suppressing demand for housing, including a clampdown on financing for the real estate sector, and direct controls… Read More>>
After home prices jumped by as much as 76 percent in China’s first tier cities from the beginning of 2015 through the end of last year, the country’s leadership came into 2017 determined to stop speculation and cool down the… Read More>>
In Hong Kong, even micro-apartments just big enough to fit a car cost many times what the typical household earns each year. But there are signs that the world’s most unaffordable housing market may be reaching its limits, as a… Read More>>
Fewer Chinese cities saw housing price gains in May compared to the previous month as official measures to smooth out a bubbly residential market have begun to take effect. According to figures released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)… Read More>>
The Shanghai government today announced modifications to its rules punishing owners and developers of commercial-titled apartments after hundreds of homebuyers protested the policy measures over the weekend.
In a statement posted on the city’s Housing and Urban-Rural Development office website… Read More>>
Hundreds of chanting protesters took to the streets to voice their displeasure with new housing regulations in Shanghai on Saturday night, with video surfacing on social media of a large crowd marching in a busy downtown shopping district and ultimately… Read More>>
During the past year China’s senior living industry has seen a surge of new development projects as developers such as Poly Real Estate, and institutional investors including Taikang Life and Taiping Insurance, bet that recent government liberalisation of the sector… Read More>>
