The virtual tour landscape has significantly changed pre pandemic and post pandemic. Where 360 virtual tours were once seen as more of a fad and just one of the marketing techniques that the real estate industry regularly deploys, it is now a tool that home seekers expect when they view a new property launch. During […]
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With walls coming back up , it would seem open floor plans are falling out of favour in the interior design world. Yet, we are still seeing a majority of homeowners here in Singapore going for the open concept look. It makes sense, with homes here on the smaller side. An open floor plan, with […]
2018 Asia-Pacific Market & Sectors To Watch (Top 5 Cities)
The survey results for this year’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Asia Pacific report reflect a combination of cross currents—some of them strikingly different—created by different types of investors as they pursue a range of different strategies. Most obviously, there is a growing divergence between investors embracing either growth- or yield-driven approaches: on the one […]
Will the next successful smart city be in Southeast Asia?
The region is embracing the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” As the world moves on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it begs the question: Will it take root in Southeast Asia first? If technological and real estate trends continue, the region is on course to see a massive metamorphosis in the way denizens work, shop, […]
7 Habits Of Highly Effective Online Property Listings
In the ultra competitive cut-throat world of online portal property listings, some listings are left to die a natural death while some flourish and sprout new business for the lister. Comparing the death listings and the lively ones which bring in the eyeballs time after time, one tends to see a pattern emerge, and applying […]
Asia Accounts for Four of Five Most Expensive Office Markets Globally
Based on CBRE’s semi-annual Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs survey, Asia continued to dominate the world’s most expensive office locations, accounting for four of the top five markets. London’s West End remains the world’s highest-priced office market. London’s West End’s overall prime occupancy costs topped the ‘most expensive’ list at US$267 per sq. ft. per […]
Singapore’s Crowded Property Portal Market Set To Get Even Hotter With Entry Of Billionaire Peter Lim
Singapore billionaire businessman Peter Lim has bought a 20% stake for an undisclosed sum in the new property portal, theedgeproperty.com. Mr Lim, recently ranked No.8 in Forbes Magazine’s annual list of the city states’s billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion, is entering into an already crowded property portal market which has seen […]
UK Estate agents launch new property website
A group of estate agents has launched a new property website to rival Rightmove and Zoopla, which dominate the market. Called Onthemarket.com, it has been set up by a consortium of estate agency firms from around the UK. All agents that use the new site to advertise their properties for sale will automatically become part […]
Chinese Pour $1.23B into Sydney Real Estate in Last 2 Months, Wanda Announces $1bn Mixed Use Development No.1 Sydney
China’s outbound investment wave continued to flow into Sydney as buyers from the mainland and Hong Kong acquired more than $1.23 billion worth of major assets during the last two months of 2014. Most of the investors were major mainland property developers looking to escape the dwindling returns of a slumping Chinese property market. Companies […]
The Great Success of Real Estate Crowdfunding
Real estate crowdfunding has been growing more and more over the last couple of years, as it was also shown by our latest Crowd Valley Market Reports. This type of crowdfunding, which bases its roots in the US market, where the first dedicated portals started their activities, has increased by double between the years 2012-2013 […]