Friday Asia Digest: The Great Tokyo Rebound | Asian Real Estate Gets Greener Two decades of deflation, following the great Japanese property bubble burst in the early nineties, have left speculative investors on the sidelines as far as Japan is concerned. The ultra-safe and highly regulated business environment, tax incentives for foreign investors, and even the promise of spectacular cash-flow, in a world gone mad with negatively geared sub-prime properties, have not been enough to lure … [Read more...]
Friday Asia Digest: The Great Tokyo Rebound | Asian Real Estate Gets Greener
September 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Hotels, Casinos & Other Luxuries. Turkey is the New London
September 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Hotels, Casinos & Other Luxuries. Turkey is the New London5 months, 10 offers, and 68.5 million AUD – this is what it took to sell the world’s first 6-star, fashion branded designer hotel – The Palazzo Versace, on Australia’s Gold Coast. The trophy asset was sold to an undisclosed Hong-Kong based consortium, whose bid was the strongest out of the myriad of prospects who, according to the selling agent, have been jetting in with their respective entourages to … [Read more...]
Asia Digest – Beer-Maker Brewing SE-Asia’s Biggest Deal, Australia Real Estate Crash Looming
September 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Asia Digest – Beer-Maker Brewing SE-Asia’s Biggest Deal, Australia Real Estate Crash Looming Singaporean Fraser & Neave Ltd (more commonly known as F&N), one of the world’s biggest and oldest drink makers, has recently completed the drafting of a deal which will see it selling its brewery business to Heineken NV at 5.4 billion SGD (4.3 billion USD). With further fracturing and selling of F&N’s other assets anticipated, the remaining lion’s share of the company’s … [Read more...]
Friday Asia Digest – Asians Buying Up NYC & London | Taiwan’s Time in the Sun
September 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Asians Buying Up NYC & London | Taiwan’s Time in the Sun An unexpected source for economic recovery hopes in New-York City and London (pictured on right) has emerged this week, as reports of a rapid increase in Asian ownership of properties in prime locations around the two metropolises are published in various media outlets.Investors from mainland China and Hong Kong have been bidding like crazy on top-notch properties around London, including but not limited to … [Read more...]
Friday Asia Digest – Japan’s Stability VS Hong-Kong’s Luxury Bubble
August 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Japan’s Stability VS Hong-Kong’s Luxury Bubble As the economic freefall continues in Europe, more and more of the continent’s largest funds, banking groups and investment companies send their cash to Japan – seen as one of Asia’s (and indeed the world’s) more stable, safe and regulated financial environments – and in recent months seemingly at the end of its two-decade long property slump. As the strongest economies in Europe are North European, it’s … [Read more...]
Friday Asia Digest – Theme Parks Flourish as Indo/China’s Thrill Ride Ends
August 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Theme Parks Flourish as Indo/China’s Thrill Ride Ends India‘s declining currency and less than regulated business environment has finally caught up with its speculative real estate sector, with international investors rattled by the Indian Government’s increasing focus on offshore structures and threat to apply tax rules retroactively to purchases and sales of India domestic entities through offshore entities, as well as seemingly un-addressed lack of regulation … [Read more...]
Friday Asia Digest – Pension & Retirement Funds Venture Overseas
August 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Pension & Retirement Funds Venture Overseas Global cross-border investment trends intensified this week, as pension and retirement funds join the international property investing party. CalPERS, (California Public Employees’ Retirement System), the USA’s largest public pension fund, with assets of 237 billion USD, is committing $530 million to invest in ARA, a new Chinese real estate funds which, in turn, invests in high-quality downtown office buildings … [Read more...]
Friday Asia Digest – Emerging Markets Lead Asian Supremacy
August 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Friday Asia Digest – Emerging Markets Lead Asian Supremacy Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia – Asia’s TrailblazersStill hot on the heels of last week’s released financial figures, summing up the first two quarters of Asian property market performance, deeper analysis now reveals that prime property prices in the region have risen %3.4 since the beginning of 2012 – a trend led mostly by Thailand and Indonesia. In Bangkok alone (pictured on right), prices have risen by an astounding %29 … [Read more...]
Real Estate in Singapore: Housing, Capital Gains, Positives & Negatives
May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Real Estate in Singapore: Housing, Capital Gains, Positives & NegativesSingapore’s Unique Housing Market“By the time Singapore attained self-government in 1959, the housing shortage and its related problems such as overcrowding and squatter colonies had reached alarming proportions. Public housing for the lower-income groups was thus given top priority and HDB (Housing Development Board) was set up by February 1960.This marked the beginning of large-scale public housing development in … [Read more...]
Real Estate in Singapore: Explorations of Asia for Property Investors
May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Real Estate in Singapore: Explorations of Asia for Property InvestorsAh, Asia.It used to be so mysterious, exotic and dangerous. And in many peoples’ minds, it still is largely populated by martial artists and dragons, mysterious and foreboding, head-to-toe tattooed organized crime figures, deranged and dangerous regimes and bewildering technology, all nestled against a backdrop of incomprehensible cultural norms, sights and alien alphabets. All in all, more the substance of fiction and … [Read more...]
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Friday Asia Digest: China’s Mega-Rich Lose Billions, Asia Bubble Potential Intensifies
Friday Asia Digest: China’s Mega-Rich Lose Billions, Asia Bubble Potential Intensifies China‘s property billionaires are far from happy this year, as government measures intended to curb speculation in China’s huge and virginal private ownership property market have been put into place. 8 of the country’s richest property moguls, all of whom are on Forbes’ “top Asian 100″ rich list, have lost a combined 3.87 billion USD, or 16% of their wealth, in the last year. Hui Ka Yan, … [Read more...]