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Global property prices increased by 6.6 percent in the year to March, the highest rate since the second quarter of 2010, according to the Knight Frank Global House Index released today. Read More »
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India's Union Cabinet passed a bill yesterday establishing a regulator for the real estate sector, a move expected to provide transparency and increase confidence for home buyers. The Real Estate Regu... Read More »
Despite government measures to restrict the property and a languishing Chinese stock market, Chinese developers have seen their stock prices race away. The sector leaped 11 percent in May alone, five ... Read More »
China's average house prices increased 4.3 percent year-over-year in April, providing further evidence that government measures aimed at cooling the country's property market are not working. Read More »
Cheung Kong Holding, the development company controlled by billionaire Li Ka-Shing, is returning deposits to buyers in a Hong Kong hotel project after regulators raised concerns about the scheme. Read More »
Long-standing predictions of a correction in Mumbai home prices have been wrong, as average prices are up 66 percent in the last four years. The astronomical residential price increase is 'undoubtedly... Read More »
Homes sales in New Zealand increased 25 percent in April from the year before, reaching a six year high, according to the latest data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand. There were 7,104 ho... Read More »
Hong Kong property sales are down 60 percent from a year ago, providing the first clear evidence that new government policies are slowing down one of the world's hottest markets. Prices are also slidi... Read More »
CNN recently focused on an interesting new phenomenon in Beijing-couples are getting divorced to buy more condos. The Chinese government recently started to enforce a 20 percent capital gains tax on a... Read More »
Hong Kong ushers in new rules this week that overhaul the way new properties are sold - measures that have been praised as long overdue by consumer advocates and largely resisted by the real estate in... Read More »
Luxury home prices in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta are up 38.1 percent from a year ago, making it the top performing luxury home market in the latest Knight Frank Prime Global Cities Index. Overal... Read More »
Home prices in Hong Kong could drop as much as 25 percent in the next two years, as new government regulations and rising mortgage interest rates impact the market, analysts say. Sanford C. Bernstein ... Read More »
A house labeled as "haunted" could translate into savings for buyers in Hong Kong. Properties where horrific incidents have occurred -- anything from a natural death or suicide to murder -- are often ... Read More »
China home prices increased in March for the third straight month, despite new government regulations designed to slow the market. Home sales generated 1.2 trillion yuan ($194 billion) in the first qu... Read More »
Has the runaway train of residential home prices in Hong Kong derailed? It certainly looks like the express has ground to a halt, if not come off the tracks altogether. Like Singapore and mainland Chi... Read More »
With China's rampant economic expansion stalling, institutional investors are shifting their attention to the country with Asia's second-fastest growing economy, Indonesia. Several sovereign wealth fu... Read More »
South Korea unveiled new measures this week aimed at stimulating the country's property market, part of a campaign to improve the faltering economy. First-time home buyers will be allowed to borrow mo... Read More »
Major cities across China have announced details of new property regulations designed to discourage speculators and calm soaring home prices. Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing were among the jurisdictio... Read More »
Shanghai-based Greenland Group, one of the largest developers in China, is turning its attention to the United States and Australia as it moves to increase its overseas investments. The company is loo... Read More »
Government measures implemented to slow soaring home prices in Hong Kong didn't work in 2012. Home values rose 23.6 percent for the year, the largest increase in the world, according to the Knight Fra... Read More »
Some of the luxury property markets hardest hit by the economic collapse posted the largest price increases in the world in 2012, according to Knight Frank's annual wealth report. Prices for Dubai lux... Read More »
