Overseas Property Investment

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

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 [...]

Property Man of the Year 2010 Datuk Alan Tong Kok Mau (holding trophy), group chairman of Bukit Kiara Properties, sharing a light moment with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin. Looking on are organising chairman Datuk Robin Tan Yeong Ching (left) and FIABCI Malaysia president Yeow Thit Sang (right). PETALING JAYA: It was a [...]

KUCHING: Naim Holdings Bhd has earmarked three high-end property developments in Miri and here for the largely untapped Malaysia My Second Home programme in Sarawak. Corporate services and human resource senior director Ricky Kho said the three projects with gross development value (GDV) close to RM400mil were scheduled for launch next year and in 2012. [...]

Despite the fact that the proposed Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) is not a pronouncement of the Government dishing out contracts it would pay for, analysts have highlighted the construction and property sectors as key beneficiaries. Recall that the ETP requires the private sector to come up with most of the funding for the projects. However, [...]

Property developer Dijaya Corporation Bhd has bought two parcels of prime land totalling 37 acres in Danga Bay, Iskandar Malaysia, for RM308 million. The land is being acquired by Goldhill Quest Sdn Bhd, a joint venture between Nagasari Cerdas Sdn Bhd (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dijaya Corp) and Global Corporate Development Sdn Bhd, owned by [...]

Mah Sing Group Bhd has acquired three pieces of land in the Klang Valley which have a combined gross development value (GDV) of about RM1.1 billion. In a statement today, Mah Sing said the land would reinforce its strength as one of the few developers in the country to offer a complete range of properties, [...]

Property hunters and investors can expect another round of exciting properties to be showcased at the upcoming iProperty.com EXPO at the Mid Valley Exhibition Centre until tomorrow. Organised by iProperty.com Malaysia, the exhibition brings together the hottest local and international properties from India, the Pacific Islands, Bali, the UK and more. Some 50,000 home buyers [...]

BEIJING: Accountant Jiao Yurong carefully organised her family’s finances to put her son through university in the US. Now that he has the coveted degree, she has been saving to buy him a flat. But soaring property prices in China – and a series of moves by the government to rein them in – are [...]

BEIJING: China is drawing up a new curb on property developers as part of a host of measures to cool the country’s red-hot property market, the state-controlled China Securities Journal reported yesterday. The plan would ban developers from investing revenue from pre-sales of uncompleted property developments in new projects, it said, citing an unnamed source [...]

BEIJING: China is likely to introduce a property tax on residential housing in the first half of the year as part of its attempts to curb real estate prices, state media reported yesterday. The levy would be imposed on a trial basis in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and the southern city of Shenzhen, the Economic Observer [...]