Meanwhile, several Hong Kong-listed property shares linked to a deal involving Dalian Wanda jumped in afternoon trade. That followed an announcement filed by Wanda Hotel Development to the Hong Kong Exchange refuting media reports it was disposing of ... ( read original story ...)
Travelodge Opens Second Hotel in Hong Kong
As we strengthen our footprint in Hong Kong and Thailand, our development pipeline is strong ... This will ultimately drive enhanced property valuation and returns to our co-investors and shareholders." ( read original story ...)
Will Headwinds In China Keep Investors From Pouring Billions Into U.S. Real Estate?
Chinese investment in U.S. property markets dropped 17% year-over-year to $4.7B ... Colliers noted growing opportunities for Asian investors to shift their spending to markets in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and India. Increased inflows of cash in the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Housing Burden Grows Even Heavier as Home Prices Soar
Living in the world’s most-expensive property market means having to set aside more than half your income as mortgage payments. Hong Kong’s mortgage-payment-to-income ratio rose to 54.2 percent in June, the highest since 1998, figures from Centaline ... ( read original story ...)
Targeting Singapore’s property market, Chinese developers leave a trail of unease
The highest and winning bid was a record S$1.002 billion, lodged by a consortium of two Chinese developers, Logan Property and the Nanshan Group. The winning bid by Logan, which is listed in Hong Kong, was higher than the second bid made by Hong Kong’s ... ( read original story ...)
Shine light on high management fees
Hong Kong’s skyrocketing property prices are getting a lot of people hot under the collar. No less frustrating are the management fees, payable by either the landlord or the tenant. The amounts charged by some new housing projects can be so high that ... ( read original story ...)
Agile Group Plans to Issue U.S. Dollar-Denominated Bonds
Property developer Agile Group Holdings Ltd. (AGPYF) said Monday it plans to issue U.S. dollar-denominated bonds and will use the net proceeds to refinance part of the 2014 U.S. dollar-denominated notes. The Hong Kong-listed developer said completion of ... ( read original story ...)
Nazri: Property tourism can attract foreign investments
Nazri said property in Malaysia continued to be an attractive investment opportunity for foreign investors, on par with locations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and China. He added that property tourism accounted for a major portion of income for the ... ( read original story ...)
Cheung Kong Property Rallies After Solid 1H Profit
Shares in Cheung Kong Property (1113.HK) were up as much as 4.3% in Hong Kong trading Friday morning in a mixed day for companies controlled by local tycoon Li Ka-shing. CK Property, whose interests include property, utilities and aircraft leasing ... ( read original story ...)
What it means when Li Ka-shing’s property flagship becomes Cheung Kong Asset
Li Ka-shing’s strategy to reinvest his lofty returns from Hong Kong and mainland China property investments into stable cash-generating assets in western developed countries is a long known open secret. What has caught some by surprise is the pace and ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Country Garden says it’s back on track in Malaysia. Is it?
Yu said the new deals emphasised just how Malaysia and the Iskandar development region – where Forest City is sited – stood to gain from the private-property venture. The Iskandar zone is three times the size of Hong Kong and has drawn in billions of ... ( read original story ...)
Vision in a time of turbulence: Lessons for a post-Brexit Britain from Hong Kong
This has yet to generate notable ripple effects in Hong Kong, however, with the property market remaining, for the time being, robust and rosy-cheeked. It is even possible that Brexit may offer some solid opportunities for Hong Kong. Richard Graham ... ( read original story ...)
Buyer of Peninsula Hotels stake tries pre-empting takeover talk
HONG KONG -- Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels' new second-largest shareholder ... Underlying profit -- calculated by subtracting the after-tax effects of property revaluation and other items -- rose 19% to HK$181 million. ( read original story ...)
Optimism about a new pact
It also touches on trade in services, investment, intellectual property rights, dispute settlements, horizontal and institutional issues, economic and technical cooperation, and other areas of interest to be mutually agreed upon. In 2015, Hong Kong was ... ( read original story ...)