Overseas Property Investment

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

Sales in Beijing’s commercial property surged by an enormous 320.5 percent during the first 10 days of March, following moves by the Chinese State Council to cool the residential market. From March 1, the sale of a residential property will require an income tax of 20 percent on profit made from the…

Hong Kong is one of the most competitive real estate markets on earth.  Financial Secretary John Tsang told the New York Times that property prices had risen by 120% since 2008.  Obviously, that hasn’t been matched by an increase in income anywhere, let alone in Hong Kong, so while expatriates might be in a stronger [...]

Some experts have reported as much as 20% increases in property prices in major Chinese cities like Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou and many who believe those reports are calling it a potentially disastrous real estate bubble. U.S. investors have taken note and talking heads have been seen…

America used to lead the world in skyscrapers – in fact there once were none outside the USA.  But once balloon-frame construction caught on across the globe, the Flatiron Building, the Tacoma in new York and 1913’s Cass Gilbert-designed Woolworth Building were rapidly eclipsed. Tall buildings make sense in cities where ground space is at [...]

House Prices Have Supported Prosperity, But Might Be About to Fall Canada has been one of the few major economies worldwide to avoid a housing crash in the years since 2008.  But some commentators call the strong housing market that has supported Canada’s enduring prosperity a bubble, and there are even signs that it may [...]

Spain has announed plans to grant permanent residency status to foreign nationals who buy Spnish property priced at €160k or above. The Secretary of State for Trade, Jaime Garcia-Legaz, announced the plan at a conference in Madrid in November of last year.  ’In coming weeks,’ Mr. Garcia-Legaz told reporters, ‘we will start to reform the [...]

For years, the property market in London was buoyed up by investment by foreign buyers, who regarded the city as a safe place to put their money during the financial turmoil following the 2008 crash.  But now, the city faces the threat of a bubble, according to Ben Habib, Chief Executive of First Property Group. [...]

China’s emerging middle class are increasingly leaving the country to live abroad, according to the most recent statistics.  In 2010, 508,000 Chinese left for the 34 countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.  In 2011, the United States received 87,000 permanent residents from China, up from 70,000 the previous year, indicating [...]

SHAH ALAM: SP Setia Bhd will kick off the worldwide launch for the first phase of its Battersea Power Station project in January next year, said its top executive. “It will be a worldwide launch stretching over a six-month period,” SP Setia president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Liew Kee Si told pressmen after [...]

MALAYSIA Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) and Mitsui Fudosan Co Ltd will build the first upscale Japan factory outlet in Southeast Asia at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. To be known as Mitsui Outlet Park KLIA, it will be built on a 20.25ha site, complete with F&B and entertainment facilities as its complementary components [...]