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Hong Kong lacks land for residential use

While the Hong Kong government has partly attributed its housing woes to the city’s hilly terrain, which makes development difficult, a market watcher believes...

Continue Reading21 Sep 2017

Keppel Land acquires Jakarta site for S$59mil

Keppel Land has acquired a parcel of land in Jakarta’s central business district for S$59.4 million.

Continue Reading20 Sep 2017

More luxury apartment projects in Ho Chi Minh City

Since the beginning of this year, many new luxury apartment projects have kicked off on “golden land" sites in Ho Chi Minh City’s (HCMC) central districts...

Continue Reading20 Sep 2017

City Docklands launches offices in Asia

London-based estate agency City Docklands Limited recently launched its Asian business, City Docklands Global, with offices in Singapore and Hong Kong...

Continue Reading15 Sep 2017

Property prices in three Asia Pacific cities getting risky

A consultancy firm has warned that real estate prices in Asia Pacific have hit risky levels, particularly in Sydney, Shanghai and Hong Kong, media reports said...

Continue Reading14 Sep 2017

Asia will be home to 10 smart cities within 8 years

The Asia-Pacific region will give rise to around 10 smart cities by 2025, a leading analyst predicted. More than half of these will be in China...

Continue Reading14 Sep 2017

Vietnamese developers not scared of Ghost Month

After a two-quarter break, some of Vietnam’s major real estate developers suddenly launched flagship projects between late August and early September...

Continue Reading13 Sep 2017

Japan: The land of rising opportunities

According to reports, Japan’s property market has remained buoyant despite the global slowdown.

Continue Reading24 Aug 2017

Chinese property investors scale back overseas acquisitions

Famous for being big spenders in the global property market over the last four years, Chinese investors’ most favoured overseas destinations in 2016 include the United States, Australia and Hong Kong.

Continue Reading24 Aug 2017

Overseas properties owned by Chinese not fully-utilised

A UBS survey showed that overseas properties owned by mainland Chinese are not fully-utilised, with 25 percent of Chinese buyers leaving their apartments vacant while another 25 percent use their homes on a temporary basis

Continue Reading23 Aug 2017

Tropicana Corporation wins big at PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Malaysia) 2017

A total of 21 awards were presented at the black-tie event that welcomed almost 300 guests

Continue Reading21 Aug 2017

Guangzhou luxury home prices soars 35.6%

China’s third biggest city Guangzhou saw luxury home prices surge 35.6 percent over the 12 months to June – the highest increase among 41 global cities tracked by Knight Frank

Continue Reading18 Aug 2017

R.I.P. TPP: What's next for Asia?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping trade pact that would have given 11 Pacific Rim nations greater market access to the US and vice-versa, is dead

Continue Reading17 Aug 2017

Hong Kong’s public housing hit record price

The property boom in Hong Kong has spread to public housing, with a 126 sq m housing unit at the Fung Tak Estate in Kowloon district sold for a record price of HK$1.95 million early last month

Continue Reading15 Aug 2017

Johor Sultan: RTS design impractical, unsustainable

The Sultan of Johor has slammed the proposed design of the Rapid Transit System (RTS) rail track between Singapore and Johor Bahru...

Continue Reading10 Aug 2017

Property investors feeling the heat of Australia’s lending restriction

After stoking soaring house prices in Australia, property investors are being squeezed as the country’s biggest banks have tightened eligibility requirements...

Continue Reading4 Aug 2017

Nominations open for PropertyGuru Philippines Property Awards 2018

Nominations are now open for the sixth annual edition of the PropertyGuru Philippines Property Awards, which was officially launched...

Continue Reading3 Aug 2017

Thai properties becoming more popular to Chinese

According to Thai developer Sansiri, which plans to open three new offices in China this year in addition to its Beijing branch, home purchases by Chinese buyers in Thailand had increased steadily in the past three years

Continue Reading3 Aug 2017

Chinese interest in overseas property strong despite capital controls

Despite tighter capital controls, appetite among Chinese buyers for overseas property remains strong with the US emerging as a popular investment destination...

Continue Reading1 Aug 2017

S’pore firms sell Melbourne housing project for AU$34m

Singapore-based firms Lian Beng Group and KSH Holdings have jointly sold a freehold property at 596 St Kilda Road in Melbourne...

Continue Reading25 Jul 2017