Overseas Property Investment

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

An emerging middle class should sustain China’s housing market, although, some in the industry worry that the latest round of real estate cooling measures may have been too effective. A slowdown in sales and price growth is prompting calls for suspension of these measures, but others insist there is…

Last month, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak told Johor Umno branch leaders not to be emotional or parochial about Singapore investments. For years, there has been this unhappiness about Singapore’s presence in the state, from the day tourists to corporate investors. The fact remains that Johor – and the country – need the [...]

9 August 2010, Asia — The Asian real estate investment market showed signs of continuing to make steady improvement in the first half of 2010 with direct real estate investment in the region rising 136% year-on-year during the period to be recorded at an estimated US$30 billion. Although activity levels rose significantly in virtually every [...]

A real estate agent talks to prospective buyer behind a scaled model of a housing development in Beijing. The government has instructed banks to stop extending mortgage loans to people buying third homes in major cities. – AFP BEIJING: Property prices in China’s major cities will fall later this year because of the government’s tightening [...]

With a double dip threatening the US commercial sector, foreign investors are poised to pounce on property bargains while domestic buyers stay on the sidelines. China is working on a half billion dollar real estate deal, and the Canadian Pension Fund has an even larger purchase in their sights…

Mumbai: The commercial lease and rental space in India will witness a low occupancy rate till 2011, indicates the latest report by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Jones Lang Lasalle Meghraj. The report, ‘The Seven Stars of India – India’s best performing micro markets for occupiers’ consist the trend and forecast on realty rental [...]

CapitaMalls Asia Ltd, the retail property unit of Southeast Asia’s biggest developer, may seek shopping-center ventures in Vietnam after expanding in markets including China and India. Singapore-based CapitaMalls may collaborate with its parent company CapitaLand Ltd to explore “interesting opportunities” in Vietnam, Chief Executive Officer Lim Beng Chee said. CapitaLand, which is building homes in [...]

Greater China leads regional growth in demand for premium office 4 August 2010 Asia — Asia’s leading commercial centres recorded impressive growth in office demand in the second quarter of 2010 as the steady regional economic recovery encouraged multinational companies to reactivate expansion plans suspended earlier after the onset of the global financial crisis, according [...]

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Further evidence has emerged that the Chinese government’s efforts to cool the housing market are finally bearing fruit. According to the government index of 70 cities, house prices fell 0.1% in June compared to May, the first month on month decline since March last year according to experts. Experts believe that this is the first [...]