Overseas Property Investment

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

Nestled in Mexico’s Colonial Highlands is the hilly capital of Guanajuato, which offers an exceptional quality of life. With its winding streets and romantic passageways, it’s an attractive place to live as well as a functional one: many of the streets are free of cars, so getting around is a pleasure…

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 [...]

SINGAPORE: Perennial Real Estate, a firm set up by former CapitaLand retail chief Pua Seck Guan, has hired Goldman Sachs, DBS and Standard Chartered to help it raise as much as S$1 billion (RM2.38 billion) in a property trust initial public offering (IPO), sources with knowledge of the deal said yesterday. Perennial intends to list [...]

Singaporean and Malaysian investors today announced a partnership to jointly develop a RM500 million new waterfront residential and commercial project in Johor. To be known as Azea Properties, the high-end development will be coming up on a 1.68 hectare site in Danga Bay – one of the key flagship zones within Iskandar Malaysia. The Singapore [...]

Malaysia’s Hong Leong Group property arm, GuocoLand (China) Ltd (GLC), is set to go bigger into integrated development in China from its early years of single building projects when it first set foot in that country. GLC managing director Violet Lee said that after GLC’s flagship project, Guoson Centre, won the Best International Mixed-Use Development [...]

It is hungry for more land bank in China and GuocoLand China Ltd group managing director Violet Lee said the company had allocated about 6.6 billion yuan (RM3.1bil) to increase its land bank SHANGHAI: GuocoLand Ltd, which is a Singapore-listed property investment arm of Malaysian conglomerate Hong Leong Group, will hunt for other land in [...]

In the horror film Drag Me To Hell, an old gypsy woman was so angered by a loans officer’s refusal to extend her mortgage payment that she attacked her in the bank parking lot and later placed a curse on her. The young officer, Christine Brown, could have chosen to help Sylvia Ganush but she [...]

11 October 2010, Bangkok – Cambodia’s first luxury private island resort has released its last remaining over-water villas to potential buyers looking to secure a rare piece of paradise. Song Saa Private Island will be the first resort to be built in Cambodia’s pristine Koh Rong Archipelago, and sets a new standard for responsible high-end [...]

Chennai-based Oriental Hotels Ltd is planning to expand its footprint by adding more hotels. The company will add two more properties to its existing eight in the next two years, when its total room inventory will be 1,250. Currently, the company’s eight properties are managed by Taj. The proposed properties in Coimbatore and Bangalore will [...]

NEW DELHI: Yet another piece of the real estate market appears to be getting back in shape. After realtors focused on the affordable housing space, where demand remained reasonable when market prices crashed two years ago, they are now launching luxury homes as the segment is witnessing early signals of an upswing in demand. Sensing [...]