Overseas Property Investment

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

The Hong Kong property market has proven to be nearly uncontrollable as prices continue to spiral up and transaction volume climbs along with it. Residential real estate sales jumped 16.2% in February over the previous month and prices increased among both mass market homes and luxury properties. 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 [...]

A number of key hospitality assets are driving Hong Kong’s New World Development’s plan to launch an IPO in the second quarter of this year.

Hong Kong has again implements cooling measures for its red hot real estate market.

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 [...]

Thailand has been a popular destination for tourists and expatriates for over three decades.  Over this period  it has experienced an extended property boom, which has been particularly concentrated in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR).  The BMR contains 17% of Thailand’s population and accounts for 44% of its GDP.  Household incomes there average 42, 000 [...]

Media Release The new development at Amari on Patong’s southern headland is up for sale with the Onyx Group targetting Hong kong, where property prices are rising too fast.

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 French are seeking to protect their domestic property rental market against overseas buyers.  Foreign buyers tend to push house prices up, so it becomes more and more difficult for young people to get on the property ladder.  In Europe and America especially, wages are stagnant and their real values are actually falling as costs [...]