Overseas Property Investment

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

The Coalition government began its term of office with a clear policy focus, clearly defined aims and clearly defined methods.  George Osborne will be judged as a success or as a failure by the UK’s ability to improve economic performance by reducing sovereign debt.  To this end, cuts to welfare, to pensions and to benefits [...]

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 [...]

Almost alone in Europe, Germany is economically in good shape and solvent.  Almost alone in Europe, Berlin’s property market is on the up, with the result – probably also unique in Europe – that the number of squatters in the city is actually decreasing. Berlin isn’t a success story within Germany, on paper at least.  [...]

Desaru is expected to be earmarked as the leisure and tourism region for Johor DESARU, a tourist destination that never quite took off, seems to finally be on the right track with growing interests from investors keen to tap the area’s tourism prospects. The latest interest comes from UEM Land Holdings Bhd, which announced on [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: SP Setia Bhd is aiming for half of its revenue to come from overseas projects in five years. “We want to be an international property player, not just a regional property player,” president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin said on the sidelines of Invest Malaysia 2012 conference. Liew said [...]

Online asking prices of S$50m for posh homes not unusual in S’pore Singapore: A luxury bungalow in Sentosa Cove with a staggering S$108mil price tag. A huge, swanky condo unit in Cuscaden Walk on sale for a cool S$68mil. Homes are being tagged with a level of prices never seen before here. Online asking prices [...]

Latest Phuket remains at the pinnacle for property at a price as evidenced by the International property Awards, which saw one of Phuket’s top real estate firms triumph twice.

The debate on the RM1mil price tag for foreign buyers is only relevant in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur and some of the more affluent Selangor neighbourhoods, parts of Penang and small parts of Iskandar. The rest of the country is pretty much stuck in the RM300,000 RM600,000 category. The current unhappiness expressed by [...]

UAE – Dubai We already reported on how UAE’s thriving aviation industry is helping the region keep out of trouble, and now apparently it’s even flown in to revive those flat lining property markets. Rental specialists, Campaya, just cited Dubai as this holiday season’s go-to destination of choice, reporting a marked uptick in demand for [...]

PETALING JAYA: Bandar Raya Developments Bhd (BRDB) has yet to appoint an independent international property valuation firm to manage the tender exercise for the sale of BR Property Holdings Sdn Bhd, which owns the successful Bangsar Shopping Centre and Menara BRDB as well as the CapSquare Retail Centre and the Permas Jusco Mall. “We will [...]