Overseas Property Investment

The most recent asia property investment news from a variety of international property news sources.

Johor Baru city skyline and the city which is located within Iskandar Malaysia economic growth corriodr will benefit from the influx of local and foreign investments. EARLY last year, UEM Land Holdings Bhd CEO and MD Datuk Wan Abdullah Wan Ibrahim brought up the high aspirations he has for the company and Iskandar Malaysia. He [...]

The involvement of the Malaysian and Singaporean governments in the development of real estate in Johor and Singapore is significant in more ways than one. It is not only a move that harnesses the benefits to be reaped from real estate development in both countries; there is also the political side of it, besides the [...]

The Australian apartment market is bucking a softening trend of the overall housing market, especially in Sydney. Tighter Asian property rules lifting aparment market, especially Sydney SYDNEY: Tighter government regulations introduced by some Asian countries to cool sizzling house prices are contributing to higher demand for new apartments in Australia, property services firm CB Richard [...]

Good linkage: The future development’s proximity to the Marina Bay and future Downtown MRT stations will ensure that it is well served and easily accessible. — AFP PETALING JAYA: The coming together of Khazanah Nasional Bhd and Temasek Holdings to develop RM30bil worth of real estate projects in Singapore and Iskandar Malaysia will help UEM [...]

Given Asia’s current insatiable hunger for hotel projects and deal making at any cost, joint ventures are becoming far more commonplace.

KUALA LUMPUR: Real estate investment firm MGPA expects its grade A office building Vista Tower (formerly known as Empire Tower), located at the junction of Jalan Tun Razak and Jalan Ampang, to be fully taken up by year-end. MGPA Asia chief executive officer John Saunders said the building had already recorded a 60% take-up in [...]

JOHOR BARU: Johor is set to house the largest film complex in the region when Pinewood Studios Iskandar Malaysia (PSIM) opens its doors in 2013. PSIM chief executive officer Michael Lake said the complex, on a 32.37ha site in Nusajaya, would offer state-of-the-art facilities for film production and related activities. He said that among the [...]

Hawaii-based hospitalty group Outrigger Hotels and Resorts have appointed William Visser for the role of vice President Operations, Asia Pacific.

Malaysian-born property developer Maha Sinnathamby is looking for more development partners to accelerate his vision of completing his world class city in Australia. Sinnathamby bought 2,860 hectares of land 26km west of Brisbane and has been transforming the timber plantation in Springfield into a city over the past 20 years. Terry Honan, the business development [...]

Credits: Timo via Flickr $65,600. a few years ago that would have bought you a property where I live. Now, that is the average price of a property in Monaco, per square meter. The figure comes from the latest release of Knight Frank’s global index of luxury property prices. According to the index London is [...]