Overseas Property Investment

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

PROPERTY consultants say the short-term outlook for the office market in the Klang Valley is soft, with supply outstripping demand, while the local retail sector continues to offer good prospects. A recent “Property Market Outlook” report for the second half of 2011 by consultancy CH Williams Talhar & Wong Sdn Bhd (WTW) says the office [...]

Green city: To become a world class city, Kuala Lumpur must also be sustainable. One way of doing that is by building and designing buildings with minimal environmental degradation, in other words, building green buildings. Building by-laws should compel developers to provide green features in their projects While green solutions have long been adapted by [...]

A view of the waterfront facing Singapore’s financial district. Aberdeen’s latest property fund will be offered to investors seeking to gain exposure to real estate in the Asia-Pacific. — AP SINGAPORE: Aberdeen Asset Management Asia has launched a property fund of funds aimed at institutional investors seeking to gain exposure to real estate in the [...]

A view of the waterfront facing Singapore’s financial district. Aberdeen’s latest property fund will be offered to investors seeking to gain exposure to real estate in the Asia-Pacific. — AP SINGAPORE: Aberdeen Asset Management Asia has launched a property fund of funds aimed at institutional investors seeking to gain exposure to real estate in the [...]

Fast emerging budget hotel chain Tune are developing a 150 room property in Patong.

SINGAPORE: Housing Development Board (HDB) flat prices in the second quarter rose at their fastest pace since the third quarter of last year. According to preliminary estimates, the Housing Board resale price index in the second quarter rose 2.9% to a fresh record from the previous quarter. Resale flat prices in the first three months [...]

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 strength of the Brazilian Real against the Dollar is giving Brazilians more buying power in the US property market than they have had for a generation. Because of this the growing Brazilian middle class is buying up Florida properties, mainly in Miami, according to a Folha de São Paulo study released Monday. Further than [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Dijaya Corp Bhd plans to develop properties worth RM2.5 billion after buying a 14.5ha freehold land in Subang, Selangor. The property developer’s subsidiary, Tropicana Subang Development Sdn Bhd, bought four parcels of freehold land from Chunghwa Picture Tubes (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd for RM385.5 million in an agreement signed yesterday. Dijaya plans to transform [...]

Property prices in Sao Paulo fell in the final months of 2010 but there is little cause for concern, especially given the rapid growth preceding the minor falls. In Brazil’s emerging market there is no such thing as an official indice, or even an indice as well respected as those of the UK lenders like [...]