Overseas Property Investment

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

The spike in Chinese real estate sales and prices is not just limited to larger cities like Shanghai and Beijing, analysts say. As the government attempts to curb rising prices in large urban areas with purchase restrictions, developers are moving to make a profit in smaller cities. Vanke, China’s…

KUALA LUMPUR: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its industry outlook for China’s real estate development sector to negative from stable, as credit conditions in that country have become increasingly challenging. In a statement Wednesday, June 15, Standard & Poor’s said that elsewhere in the region, the soaring market in Hong Kong may be [...]

This month, as part of its “the 10 Best” series the Observer has attempted to chart the world’s top 10 tall buildings, and according to critics hasn’t done a particularly good job. 1: The Chrysler Building, New York Credits: Flickr It all starts wonderfully with the gorgeous Chrysler building in New York. The Chrysler building [...]

Latest A Chinese group with land in Patong plans to open a new waterpark there, a Phuket vice governor has learned. Details of the proposal and timing have yet to be revealed.

SINGAPORE: Malaysians residing in Singapore can assume a vital role in promoting the “Malaysia My Second Home Programme” (MM2H) among Singaporeans, says Tourism Malaysia director in Singapore Zalizam Zakaria. He said Singaporeans were among the top ten purchasers of properties in Malaysia under MM2H followed by Japanese, British, Americans, Chinese nationals, Iranians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indian [...]

Vancouver Canada is the best place in the world to live. This is according to the top 10 chart of the world’s most liveable cities revealed by the Economist Intelligence Unit. This is the fifth straight year that Vancouver, with its world class services and facilities has topped the chart. This time the report put [...]

A group of what you might call professional squatters, but would be more likely to call opportunistic anarchists have seized one of Colonel Gaddafi’s London Residences. The group calling itself “Topple the Tyrants” occupied the residence in Hampstead Garden Suburb on Wednesday. “Saif Gaddafi and the Gaddafi regime have taken millions of pounds, billions of [...]

Back on board the China property market rollercoaster as we ride into 2011. Before the last stop we watch a sub-index of property stocks on the Shanghai Composite Index slump 28% at the end of last year on the promise of new property taxes to curb growth. Now as it seems unlikely the taxes will [...]

The fact that the average salaried workers are ready to buy into properties many times their annual income is food for thought. LONG-TERM sustainable house prices ought to be determined by two key fundamentals household income and rental returns. The relationship between household average annual income and property prices is an important one as it [...]

Eric Chan with an artist’s impression of Quayside condominiums in Seri Tanjung Pinang phase one. EASTERN and Oriental Bhd (E&O) will be leveraging on its expertise and reputation as a lifestyle developer to undertake more upmarket projects outside its traditional markets of Kuala Lumpur and Penang. Deputy managing director Eric Chan says the group is [...]