Growth in rentals on luxury residential properties cooled last quarter, as policymakers took steps to rein in inflation. Sustained demand, however, will keep the market bullish this year, Knight Frank says.

Hotels in mainland China will need to raise their performance and returns to succeed as real estate investment trusts, according to JLL. A 4 per cent annual return will be favoured by regulators and investors.

Mainland China’s commercial and financial hub will relax home purchase restrictions and grant subsidies to people buying new flats in a move designed to breathe life back into the city’s real estate sector.

AIA Group, Asia’s largest insurer, is picking an opportune time to look for office buildings in mainland China to house its operations. A two-year slump in the property market has rendered these assets ‘affordable.’

Distressed properties in Europe are presenting opportunistic gains for global investors because of supply and demand imbalances and pressure from high borrowing costs, UK-based Patron Capital Partners says.

Dubai is shaping up to be a new favourite for buyers, thanks to a booming real estate market and fast-track residency scheme, agents say. It handed out 158,000 ‘golden visas’, dwarfing the 13,000 that Portugal has issued since 2012.

Home purchases in Hong Kong are slowing down after an initial spate of enthusiasm sparked by the government’s rollback of cooling measures in February.

The latest government measures are merely ‘a drop in the ocean’, and rebuilding homebuyers’ confidence in the presale system is a precondition for any revival, analysts say.

Troubled property developer receives lifeline a day after Fitch Ratings downgraded its default ratings.

The People’s Bank of China keeps a running tab of big policy moves, and it shows that trillions of yuan worth of support measures have been rolled out since 2021.

China is seeking to defuse financial risks, with asset management companies expected to help other ailing sectors, particularly property developers, but the firms are already highly leveraged due to bond financing and exposure to the troubled real estate sector.

Post receives statement from Dubai-based head of protocol and security management a day after publishing interview with Eleanor Jane Mak.

Prospective homebuyers are visiting showrooms in droves while transactions have revived, according to agents, soon after Beijing unveiled its most aggressive measures to revive the housing market.

Sheikh due to arrive no later than June to attend opening ceremony of private office but name change possible to reduce focus on his ties with ruling family, aide Eleanor Jane Mak says.

By allowing local governments and state-owned enterprises to buy unsold land and housing from distressed developers, China is betting a property slump weighing down the economy can be stopped once and for all.

Hong Kong residents fill their shopping trolleys and tummies in Shenzhen while Singaporeans hop across to Johor Bahru as they make the most of cheaper prices, denting the stability of their retail sectors.

Economist Richard Koo’s theories influenced Western policy decisions after the global financial crisis, and now he has strong words for Chinese policymakers on the need for fiscal stimulus to ward off a ‘balance-sheet recession’.

Recovery in China’s luxury home market is gaining pace, while recent measures by the government could help turn around the fortunes of the property industry.

The mainland has US$3.9 trillion worth of unsold properties, which makes Beijing’s funding plan account for less than 2 per cent of that excess inventory, a Barclays report said.

Beijing has announced 300 billion-yuan in funds to help clear excess housing inventory, as well as measures to ensure developers have access to financing and that homes are delivered on time.

Another set of weak housing market data for April underscores the urgency among officials in Beijing to stem the crisis and rescue some of the nation’s biggest yet cash-strapped developers.

China’s property investment fall accelerated in the first four months of the year, while retail sales growth slowed in April, data released on Friday showed.

Authorities in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang province, are planning to buy homes and rent them at affordable rates, to reduce inventory and boost sales.

Hong Kong is missing out on an office investment boom in the Asia-Pacific region this year as a supply glut and high vacancy rates put investors off the segment, according to analysts.

Starwood Capital Group, one of the largest real estate investors worldwide, is part of a consortium of shareholders proposing to take Asian warehouse developer ESR Group private.

The flagship developer of tycoon Li Ka-shing has slashed the price of some of the remaining flats at its project in the Northern Metropolis by almost a third compared with when it was first launched in 2021.

Luxury homes – categorised as those priced over 15 million rupees – made up more than one-fifth of all residential units sold across India’s seven top cities in the first quarter.

UBS may start rewarding its bankers for referring clients to the firm’s wealth management business, in a first for the Zurich-based lender