Overseas Property Investment

The most recent chinese 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Opus Hong Kong – home of the most expensive apartment in Asia The world’s second most expensive apartment isn’t in New York or Paris or Berlin, or even Tokyo.  It’s in Hong Kong, where Asia’s priciest living space –and the second most costly in the world, after One Hyde Park, in London – has gone [...]

  Chinese property investors does not show the same interest in the US property market as before The stream of foreign buyers that seemed to be filling the empty reservoirs of the US property market has dried up, according to Real Estate Economy Watch.  Just a few short weeks ago, in August of this year, [...]

The past couple of years, in tandem with the rise in property prices in major towns and cities in the country, Kajang’s property market has generated quite a bit of interest among both developers and house buyers. Located about 20km from the city of Kuala Lumpur, Kajang is benefiting from its second-tier location status as [...]

Opus Hong Kong – home of the most expensive apartment in Asia The world’s second most expensive apartment isn’t in New York or Paris or Berlin, or even Tokyo.  It’s in Hong Kong, where Asia’s priciest living space –and the second most costly in the world, after One Hyde Park, in London – has gone [...]