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 […]

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, […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The idea of crowdfunding isn’t particularly new. In fact, it may be one of the oldest concepts in civilization. Think of crowdfunding a little like taxes, where individuals pay into a large managed pot for use towards the common good of the collective group. While crowdfunding is voluntary and taxes are compulsory, the concept is […]

For some Chinese investors, the first step to purchasing millions of dollars in property on the other side of the globe is a lot like ordering a new t-shirt online – search and click. Social media is the catalyst, connecting Chinese buyers and overseas agents. At least one prospective buyer entrusted an agent with $100 […]