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 Reading • 21 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 Reading • 20 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 Reading • 20 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 Reading • 15 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 Reading • 14 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 Reading • 14 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 Reading • 13 Sep 2017
Japan: The land of rising opportunities
According to reports, Japan’s property market has remained buoyant despite the global slowdown.
Continue Reading • 24 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 Reading • 24 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 Reading • 23 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 Reading • 21 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 Reading • 18 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 Reading • 17 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 Reading • 15 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 Reading • 10 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 Reading • 4 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 Reading • 3 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 Reading • 3 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 Reading • 1 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 Reading • 25 Jul 2017