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Beijing Wall’s Downfall Prompts China Housing Policy Debate
The destruction of an steel gate by angry homeowners in a Beijing compound has sparked an online debate about housing rights in the nation’s capital, and created a new headache for one of China’s...
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Hong Kong Expats Now Facing Home Rental Prices Double Singapore’s
For residents suffering through a New York winter, or commuting on the tube in London, Hong Kong seems glamorous — walking down the streets in skyscrapers-filled Central, partying in nightlife hotspot...
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China Home Prices Rise in 57 of 70 Cities After First-Tier Markets Frozen
Home prices are rising across China, but smaller cities are getting most of the action, the latest official data shows. New home prices, excluding government-subsidized housing, rose in 57 out of 70...
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Singapore Office Rents Expected to Surge 25% in Two Years, Leading Asia Pacific
Singapore office rents are projected to surge by over 25 percent from 2017 through 2019, leading the pack among Asia Pacific markets and more than twice as fast as downtown Hong Kong, according to...
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Singapore’s CDL Praised for Green, Female-Friendly Culture
Singaporean property giant City Developments Limited (CDL) is the world’s only real estate company to be honoured for both its female-friendly culture and green initiatives by a pair of newly released...
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Hong Kong Housing Starts Dropped 33% in 2017 After 2016 Surge
Hong Kong saw a 33 percent plunge in the number of private residential units that started construction last year, falling from 25,500 in 2016 to 17,000, according to figures from the city’s Transport...
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China’s CBRC Warns on Using M&A Loans for Land Grabs
China’s banking watchdog is clamping down on lending for land deals in Shanghai, amid a central government campaign to deleverage the property sector. A circular recently issued by the Shanghai branch...
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Kailong Promotes Ivan Ho to HK CEO, Launches USD Fund with $500M Target
Hong Kong-based real estate investment manager Kailong is raising a new, US dollar-denominated fund focussing on properties in Greater China, with a target size of $500 million. Ivan Ho, who has just...
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Surging Hong Kong Drove $158B Asia Pacific Property Deal Peak in 2017
Hong Kong shouldered aside Tokyo to take the crown as the most active metropolitan investment market in Asia Pacific last year, with deals for income-producing assets jumping 39 percent year-on-year to...
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Hong Kong Boosts Land Sale Transparency in Battle Against Crazy Bidders
Hong Kong is learning from its all-time rival Singapore as it seeks to tame the city’s land prices. In addition to the tender amount of the successful bidder in land sales, the Hong Kong government...
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Cost of Cars and Clothes Makes Singapore the World’s Priciest City
Asia Pacific is home to four of the top ten most expensive cities in the world for expatriates and business travelers, according to a new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The biannual...
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Home Prices Drop in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen as China Property Freeze...
The number of mainland cities seeing new home prices rise dropped to 44 in February from 50 the previous month, according to the latest figures from China’s National Bureau of Statistics, as demand...
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Singapore Expats Rejoice as Town Ranks Tops for Living
Singapore once again takes the crown as Asia’s best city for expatriates, according to the Mercer 2018 Quality of Living survey which grades 231 cities according to factors like banking services,...
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Hong Kong Home Prices Could Rise Another 10% in 2018 as Colliers Sees...
The cost of shelter in Hong Kong continues to defy the laws of gravity, after new home prices in the city surged by 18 percent last quarter to the second-highest level since 1996. But while the ongoing...
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Beijing Restricts Building Heights in Prime District — Derails RMB 8.6B in...
The Beijing government has retroactively restricted the height of buildings in a prime plot of the city’s core business district to as low as 100 metres, truncating the building heights and potential...
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Anbang’s Wu Xiaohui Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison, $1.6B in Assets Confiscated
Anbang Insurance Group’s founder and former chairman Wu Xiaohui has been sentenced by a Chinese court to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement, China’s official news agency Xinhua reported...
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Shanghai Existing Home Sales Fell 22% in April Amid Credit Clampdown
Sales of existing homes in Shanghai fell by almost one-fourth last month as the Chinese government continues to clamp down on sales of pricey housing in an effort to keep residential real estate prices...
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$3B Investment Wave Expected to Drive Proptech Innovation in Asia
At a time when more than 300 million Chinese have used online food delivery and some 10 percent of the mainland population have signed up for ride-hailing apps, one may wonder when the tech revolution...
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CapitaLand Leads Asia’s Real Estate Fund Managers as AUM for Top Players Rise...
CapitaLand again led an annual ranking of Asia Pacific’s largest property fund managers, as the Singapore firm built a war chest of $61.3 billion of assets under management (AUM) in 2017, according to...
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Singapore Government to Boost Private Housing Pipeline By 8,040 More Homes in...
Singapore’s government is launching sites that can yield a total of up to 8,040 private residential units in the second half of 2018, keeping pace with new supply in the first half, while ramping up...
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