Overseas Property Investment

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

KUALA LUMPUR: CB Richard Ellis Malaysia Sdn Bhd (CBRE) expects office rentals in Malaysia to stabilise in the first half of 2010, barring any major economic setbacks.
“Office rentals in Kuala Lumpur peaked at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008 and softened by about 15% as at the end of the fourth quarter of [...]

Commercial property have already fallen over 40% off their peak values of 2007, and it could get even worse. While the market will likely continue sliding in 2010, the rate of decline has slowed considerably, and November actually posted a positive price performance. For more on this, see the following…

The property market in Malaysia is on an upward trend with middle class suburban property prices rising driven by the steady stock market movement.
Ho Chin Soon, director of Ho Chin Soon Research, a property company that specialises in land use and ownership maps, said the KLCI which has been moving upwards from 2009 to 2010, [...]

Sunway City plans to inject the three office towers into its real estate investment trust
Sunway City Bhd (SunCity) will launch three office towers worth some RM800 million in Kuala Lumpur and within the Sunway Integrated Resort in Selangor.

The group plans to subsequently inject them into its real estate investment trust (REIT).
The property in Kuala Lumpur [...]

(From left): Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail signs his name while Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah and Ngeow Voon Yean look on at the launch of Sunway City Bhd’s Sunway Tower.
KUALA LUMPUR: Sunway City Bhd (SunCity) may inject Sunway Towers at Jalan Ampang and Sunway Hotel Seberang Jaya in Penang into its RM4bil real [...]

The government’s move to raise the minimum property purchase price for foreigners may hurt its campaign to promote Malaysia as a second home.

The Economic Planning Unit released a statement yesterday, saying that the ruling, first announced in June 2009, is effective January 1 2010.
In June, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the minimum [...]

Texas was well represented on FinestExpert.com’s list of the best cities for long-term property investment in 2010, with Dallas-Fort Worth garnering top honors and Houston and San Antonio also in the top four. The rankings reflected potential for positive cash-flow and long-term investment rather than…

Canada’s real estate market continues to rebound, and property investment is quickly regaining its appeal, sparking a turnaround and driving housing sales and prices from Toronto to Montreal and Vancouver. The momentum from 2009’s strong finish, spurred by attractive lending rates and renewed consumer…

Commercial property investments have managed to weather the worst of the financial beating, despite widespread misgivings over the industry’s health heading into the future. The outlook for real estate investment trusts is optimistic, given their inherent stability and renewed purchasing power. See…

Regular readers to the site will know that this is the next installment in a series of articles giving how to tips on buy to let property investment abroad, the first covered the potential pitfalls of buy to let investment abroad, and the second covered the potential pitfalls of buying off plan property overseas.

This one [...]