Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive city for companies to locate employees, with mainland competitor Shanghai coming tenth, according to a recent survey by real estate consultancy Savills.
However, a separate poll published today by the Economist rates Singapore… Read More>>
Beijing-based real estate company Soho China announced on Friday that it is selling two commercial projects in Shanghai for RMB 5.23 billion ($851 million). The sale price is well below what the developer asked for, as the market for commercial… Read More>>
Shanghai-based developer Greenland Group, is planning to invest RMB 20 billion (US$3.3 billion) to develop a resort hotel and residential projects in southern Malaysia close to the border with Singapore, in the latest overseas move by one of China’s most… Read More>>
With China’s banks facing competition for deposits from trusts on one side and online wealth management products on another, nearly 90 percent have ended mortgage discounts for first time home buyers.
The end of preferential rates was revealed in a… Read More>>
Asia’s richest man managed to raise profits at his primary property firm by 10 percent in 2013 by selling off properties in China, even as the contribution from the company’s Hong Kong operation fell into a slump.
Cheung Kong Holdings… Read More>>
Investment in Manhattan office properties reached US$5.5 billion in 2013, with an influx of Chinese investors helping drive the market to a record high, according to a recent market study.
The report from international property consultancy Colliers International found that… Read More>>
Australian real estate developer Goodman Group announced today that it has signed an agreement to lease 54,880 sqm of logistics space in Suzhou to Cainiao, the logistics firm that supports Jack Ma’s Taobao e-commerce platform.
The deal between Goodman and… 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>>
As China’s upper crust snatch up investor visas to Australia and the US, the ordinary folks are looking to retire someplace closer to home, according to one of China’s biggest real estate developers.
Speaking at a recent real estate forum… Read More>>
CIFI Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd., one of the 100 biggest real estate developers in China announced today that it had achieved contracted sales of RMB15.32 billion in 2013, representing a significant increase of 60.5 percent over the RMB9.54 billion it… Read More>>
