Real Estate Tag

16 Apr China’s home prices fall for 10th straight month in fresh alarm for stronger policy response, revival plans

Posted at 05:28h in Asia

China’s home prices in the primary market fell for a 10th consecutive month in March, showing the government’s measures to support the nation’s struggling developers and lift consumer confidence are not sufficient to arrest the slump.Prices of new homes in 70 medium and large cities...

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15 Apr Opinion | 3 Asia property market trends investors shouldn’t ignore

Posted at 08:30h in Asia

Everyone loves a good story. In Asia’s real estate industry, there are plenty of themes and trends that attest to the appeal and resilience of the region’s residential and commercial sectors. Whether it is the huge potential for an institutionalised rental housing market in China...

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08 Apr Opinion | Hong Kong an outlier in making life easier for foreign homebuyers

Posted at 07:30h in Asia

This is patently not the case in other leading housing markets. Knight Frank, which monitors changes in rules and regulations that have implications for wealth flows and property markets, says shifts in policy are the biggest risk for international buyers of prime residential real estate...

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28 Mar Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank, BOC and Postal Savings Bank of China post earnings growth amid ‘positive signs of recovery’ in economy

Posted at 14:39h in Asia

“In 2024, we will adhere to the general principle of pursuing progress while maintaining stability, and will act as a major bank serving the real economy and as a cornerstone of financial stability.”ABC’s non-performing loan (NPL) ratio, a metric of potential bank losses, improved to...

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28 Mar Opinion | Hold the bazooka: weak China growth, low stimulus is new normal

Posted at 08:30h in Asia

This partly explains why the government has stepped up support for the crisis-ridden housing market. Beijing has intensified pressure on banks to assist vulnerable developers, cut mortgage rates to stimulate demand and provided low-cost financing to the urban village renovation and affordable housing programmes.It also...

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19 Mar Hong Kong private credit goes where banks fear to tread: loans against property

Posted at 00:30h in Asia

Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital and Pacific Aegis Capital Management Group (PACM) are building a US$400 million war chest to tap lending opportunities backed by properties in the city as they embrace the unloved real estate sector after it was shunned by banks taking a negative...

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18 Mar Opinion | Asia’s office sector is thriving, so where are the investors?

Posted at 07:30h in Asia

Just a cursory glance at office occupancy rates around the world reveals where the commercial property sector’s problems lie. In the United States, average occupancy rates in 10 leading cities stood at just 52.5 per cent at the beginning of March, according to data from...

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04 Mar Opinion | Why Asian buyers’ love of Australia’s property market endures

Posted at 08:30h in Asia

Yet Australia’s appeal to many Asian buyers endures, and by some measures it is growing. While the heyday of Chinese investors pouring huge sums of money into Australian residential property is long gone, Chinese buyers are back.In the second quarter of last year, mainland China...

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21 Feb Bank of East Asia cut its exposure to China’s troubled commercial property sector last year

Posted at 09:15h in Asia

The bank’s debt in the country’s commercial real estate sector has come down to 7.7 per cent of total lending, just over half what it was two years ago, and is expected to continue downwards. Yet BEA still made significant provisions for bad loans.“We continued...

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12 Feb Opinion | Are Asia’s property markets too resilient for their own good?

Posted at 08:30h in Asia

In the commercial sector, leasing activity in the office and retail sectors has been relatively strong, with many markets in the region enjoying brisk rental growth. Moreover, capital values have not fallen as sharply as in the US and Europe. Investment activity in the...

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