Overseas Property Investment

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

The Australian apartment market is bucking a softening trend of the overall housing market, especially in Sydney. Tighter Asian property rules lifting aparment market, especially Sydney SYDNEY: Tighter government regulations introduced by some Asian countries to cool sizzling house prices are contributing to higher demand for new apartments in Australia, property services firm CB Richard [...]

UK: Rise in mortgage lending ‘fuelled by remortgaging’ [Guardian] UK government signs up builders, lenders for loan scheme [Reuters] Donald Trump: I want Sean Connery to open my golf course [Telegraph] Goldman Sachs’s Jonathan Egol Buys Manhattan Apartment for $3.72 Million [Bloomberg] Dubai homeowners face legal limbo over building upkeep [Arabian Business] Malaysian-born Chong among [...]

Expanding Thailand hospitality group Onyx are taking their new Ozo brand on the road.

Following the announcement of Hong Kong’s New World Hospitality’s pending acquisition after entering into a sales and purchase agreement for the US based Rosewood Hotels and Resorts

A sustained increase in luxury sales is making for a robust retail property market in Hong Kong. Statistics for 2010 show a 20% increase in gross sales in the luxury sector, even outpacing growth in overall retail sales. Consumer confidence and a strong labor market is stimulating retail sales across…

Prices of landed properties, especially in the hot spots of Klang Valley, are going through the roof. Strong demand continues to push up already high prices, especially landed properties. Future generations will have to get used to living in a box in the sky. The past six months have seen a deluge of property advertisements [...]

Credits: Timo via Flickr $65,600. a few years ago that would have bought you a property where I live. Now, that is the average price of a property in Monaco, per square meter. The figure comes from the latest release of Knight Frank’s global index of luxury property prices. According to the index London is [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Competition among lessors of office space in Kuala Lumpur is expected to intensify this year, with the annual average rentals of office space in the business district projected at US$25.19 (RM76) per sq ft. Global real estate firm Colliers International said completion of individual projects has been deferred from late 2010 to 2011. [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Property companies on Bursa Malaysia, which have lagged behind the performance of the broader market in the past month, are trading at valuations that put such counters at the upper band against its regional peers. Some analysts admit the valuations of the larger property companies are frothy but say there are reasons why [...]

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 [...]