Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
The fastest appreciating office space in mainland China sits just across the border from Hong Kong in Shenzhen, where average office rentals increased 17.4 percent in the first quarter, compared to the same period last year.
According to a recent… Read More>>
Ground was broken for a 120,000 square metre mixed-use development in downtown Beijing recently and the complex’s “Mountain-Water City” design aims to create man-made mountains at the edge of the world’s second-largest city park.
Designed by Beijing-based MAD Architects,… Read More>>
China’s residential real estate market continued to slow in March as price increases slackened and the number of sales fell in many cities across the country. The market also reported more cases of developers discounting homes to reduce inventories, even… Read More>>
Two separate surveys by private research firms show that the increase in China housing prices slowed in February. At the same time, figures from Beijing and Shanghai show that transactions have fallen off dramatically as buyers and sellers both wait… Read More>>
As the air quality in China’s capital once again hit “crazy bad” levels in recent weeks, a new kind of real estate bubble might just be the solution to Beijing’s woes. But this bubble is made of plastic, rather than… Read More>>
More than 140,000 families are lining up for only 2,000 homes on sale in a new affordable housing project in Beijing as China’s nascent low-cost housing scheme struggles to meet demand.
The Beijing project is located along the fifth ring… Read More>>
Local governments in China favor letting the market determine real estate prices, except when it might become a hot topic at internal party meetings. This seems to be the message from the recent cancellation of an upcoming land sale in… Read More>>
Sales of commercial property dropped by as much as 72 percent in 43 of 90 cities across China last month, according to a report released by a division of real estate agency e-House.
The report published this week by CRIC, the real estate information division of e-House finds that Beijing recorded only 6094 commercial real estate transactions during January, and in terms of area, only 744,300 square meters were sold.
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>>
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>>
