Bangkok buyers look further afield
DDproperty.com - PropertyGuru's market-leading Thailand property portal - can exclusively reveal that Bangkok’s Thai property buyers are searching further from the city for their ideal home to buy or rent.According to data captured in June from Thailand’s number one...
Continue Reading • 15 Jul 2014
Best of the Philippines do battle
The eighteen shortlisted awards for this year’s Philippines Property Awards have been revealed, with the coveted Best Developer award to be fought between Ayala Land and Filinvest.The accolades, which will be presented at a gala dinner on July 29 in Manila, will be handed to winners and...
Continue Reading • 14 Jul 2014
Asian HNWIs favour non-domestic equities
Asian high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) have been eyeing to invest in overseas markets, looking out for differentiated products that offer greater stability and higher potential yields, according to a research note reported in the media.Released by East & Partners, the research note was...
Continue Reading • 14 Jul 2014
Confidence boost in Sth Australia
Confidence levels in the South Australian property market have rebounded according to a leading indicator of business sentiment. The Property Council/ANZ Property Industry Confidence Survey's leading index for the second quarter of 2014 jumped four points to 114, the second highest level...
Continue Reading • 14 Jul 2014
Revealed: Australia's hotspots
The Housing Industry Association, the voice of Australia's residential building industry, has released the latest edition of its Population and Residential Building Hotspots report, providing an overview of Australia's fastest growing metropolitan and regional areas in 2012/13. A...
Continue Reading • 14 Jul 2014
Chinese looking at NW London
High-end London real estate agent Aston Chase has seen a recent surge in interest from Asia - with three significant sales to Chinese individuals in as many months. The most notable being a stunning detached house on Elm Tree Road in London's St John’s Wood, NW8 (pictured) with a...
Continue Reading • 11 Jul 2014
Experts agree time to buy Thailand is now
With this question on the lips of many, experts from Thailand spoke exclusively to PropertyGuru.com.sg. to give their views as to whether now is the right time to buy property in the Kingdom, and offer words of advice to anyone reconsidering their options after last month’s military...
Continue Reading • 11 Jul 2014
MIPIM: EcoHouse Award not paid
EXCLUSIVE: When overseas property developer EcoHouse won the Best Brazilian Project for its Bosque Das Acacias development at the MIPIM Awards in March, the news was treated with both scepticism and irony by many of the Singapore developers still waiting for either the return of their capital or...
Continue Reading • 10 Jul 2014
Ongoing engagement on Johor reclamation plans
Singapore has been engaging Malaysia on reclamation plans in Johor, which has sparked concerns on the transboundary and environmental impact. The city-state was not given prior information on two reclamation projects that are in close proximity to Singapore, said Senior Minister of State for...
Continue Reading • 10 Jul 2014
London garage for sale at $1.06m
A single garage in the W8 area of Kensington, West London, has just been placed on the market with a guide price of £500,000 (S$1.06 million).Positioned to the west of Palace Gate and accessed via Canning Place Mews, the “discreetly located” 279 sq ft property is being offered...
Continue Reading • 8 Jul 2014
Will foreign ownership be possible after tomorrow's Indonesian elections?
Indonesians go to the polls tomorrow (Wednesday) to elect a new president, with one candidate intending to allow foreign property buyers to purchase luxury units priced at least IDR2.5 billion (S$265,000) in larger cities and on Bali.Presidential candidate Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, suggests...
Continue Reading • 8 Jul 2014
Watch Listing isn't a worry for EcoHouse says Chief Ops Officer
Overseas property developer EcoHouse has again maintained it is not in breach of any agreements with its investors, and described yesterday morning's report it has been placed on the Investor Watch List by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as “not news”.In an email...
Continue Reading • 8 Jul 2014
Johor tax on developers to benefit fishermen
Property developers involved in sea reclamation work in Johor will have to pay a tax of RM0.30 for every square foot, which will form part of a special aid programme for fishermen affected by the work, according to the state’s Chief Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin and reported in the...
Continue Reading • 7 Jul 2014
EcoHouse on MAS Watch List
Singapore’s Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has placed overseas property developer EcoHouse on its Investor Alert List.The list, according to the MAS website, provides a listing of unregulated persons who, based on information received by MAS, may have been wrongly perceived as being...
Continue Reading • 7 Jul 2014
Wealthy Asians eyeing Philippine condos
The Philippines’ property market is now witnessing more foreign buyers, according to media reports.Yield-hungry investors from Japan to Malaysia now purchase condos there in bulk, shifting money from traditional property hotspots such as Singapore and Hong Kong, where governments have...
Continue Reading • 3 Jul 2014
Sydney is world's most liveable city
Australia’s largest city is the world’s most liveable metropolis according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) report, which compared 30 global cities on social and economic factors.London came in second followed by San Francisco and Berlin, while Hong Kong rounded out the...
Continue Reading • 2 Jul 2014
The Asian rush for black gold
Latest figures from the National Association of Realtors revealed that Chinese buyers now account for 12 percent of all foreign investors in American real estate.And in his first public engagement since taking up office, Max Baucus, the U.S. Ambassador to China, highlighted the importance of...
Continue Reading • 2 Jul 2014
Look what's coming to Bangkok
Piling work has begun on what is touted as being the largest private property development to ever take place in Thailand, and one that will bring a world-class iconic development to central Bangkok.Work on the THB50 billion Iconsiam project, a joint-venture between developers Siam Piwat,...
Continue Reading • 2 Jul 2014
Oxley's SOHO concept in Cambodia a big draw
More than 500 residential units and 200 SOHO (Small office Home office) units have been snapped up at Oxley Holdings’ new mixed-use development in Cambodia.Launched on 12 June, the majority of buyers at The Bridge in Phnom Penh are Cambodians, but the freehold property comprising 963 SOHO...
Continue Reading • 1 Jul 2014
JB readying for new wave of Singapore buyers
Demand hotting up for new developments surrounding the future rapid transit system (RTS) and CIQ complex.Malaysian developers are positioning themselves to tap on the anticipated surge in Singaporean buyers for properties located in Johor Bahru city centre; particularly projects near the future...
Continue Reading • 27 Jun 2014