Overseas Property Investment

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

Taiwanese authorities said Friday they plan to levy a special property tax in a bid to curb rising real estate prices and narrow the widening income gap. The finance ministry is proposing a minimum 10 percent special tax on non-residential properties that change owners frequently, aimed at countering speculative activities, said an official, without elaborating. [...]

Although previous efforts haven’t had much impact, Taiwan may roll out additional anti-speculation measures with a property tax on investment purchases and more frequent land value revisions for tax purposes. In an over-heated market, higher prices are leaving first-time buyers in the cold – prompting…

Mah Sing Group Bhd, the country’s fifth largest property developer by revenue, is in talks with the government and private land owners to buy land in the Klang Valley, Penang and Johor. Group managing director Tan Sri Leong Hoy Kum said the company is on an aggressive land acquisition trail. For government land, Leong said [...]

Timber outfit Eksons Corp Bhd is diversifying its income stream by venturing into property development to help offset any shortfall in plywood trading. Eksons, one of the largest manufacturer of tropical thin plywood in Asia Pacific, sells its plywood under the “Panda” brand name. Eksons executive director, Tang Seng Fatt, said there are challenges in [...]

An Austrian developer is to become the first to build on the famous come infamous Dubai World Islands — an archipelago of islands loosely matched to a map of the world; loosely in that the islands are in roughly the same place as the corresponding country on the map, but the islands are not shaped [...]

9 August 2010, Asia — The Asian real estate investment market showed signs of continuing to make steady improvement in the first half of 2010 with direct real estate investment in the region rising 136% year-on-year during the period to be recorded at an estimated US$30 billion. Although activity levels rose significantly in virtually every [...]

Greater China leads regional growth in demand for premium office 4 August 2010 Asia — Asia’s leading commercial centres recorded impressive growth in office demand in the second quarter of 2010 as the steady regional economic recovery encouraged multinational companies to reactivate expansion plans suspended earlier after the onset of the global financial crisis, according [...]

Law for the Promotion of Foreign Investment (Law No. 344) The main legislation that governs foreign investment consists of Law No. 344 for the Promotion of Foreign Investments and its bylaws, as well as other sector-specific laws that provide incentives for investment. Law No. 344 provides: a) equal treatment of foreign and domestic investment; b) [...]

Nicaragua is an original Member of the WTO, and attaches considerable importance to its participation in the multilateral trading system. Since the beginning of 1990s, Nicaragua has engaged in multilateral negotiations, regional and bilateral negotiations (Free Trade Agreements). Preferential agreements have become an important component of trade liberalization in Nicaragua. The country offers: 48 universities [...]

PETALING JAYA: I-Bhd executive chairman Tan Sri Lim Kim Hong is meeting top developers from Asian countries to discuss the expansion of the RM2bil I-City project in Shah Alam. “We are looking for a big brand that is strong in property development to spearhead the next phase of growth in I-City,” he told StarBiz yesterday, [...]