This week’s news items bear the mark of stability and sustained growth outlooks for Asian economies as a whole, underpinned by a robust property market, and led by China‘s modestly re-vitalised real-estate sector – while the region’s REIT market, firmly asserting itself as “the place to be” produces some spectacular numbers – China’s New Leadership [...]

Foreign investors, led by Chinese, have been purchasing extensively in water-rich rural Japan – one of the wold’s top 10% countries in water resources, and also the only country in the Asia-Pacific region that doesn’t regulate property investment by foreigners. As a result, certain land in certain areas – particularly Hokkaido, in the country’s North [...]

The old “China/Hong-Kong love/hate dependency/independency” relationship issue is ringing louder and truer than ever this week, as the state of both countries’ property markets provides observers and analysts with a fascinating opportunity to study the complex relationship between the two. Both China and Hong-Kong governments have introduced strict and severely limiting cooling measures, in several [...]

China‘s property billionaires are far from happy this year, as government measures intended to curb speculation in China’s huge and virginal private ownership property market have been put into place. 8 of the country’s richest property moguls, all of whom are on Forbes’ “top Asian 100″ rich list, have lost a combined 3.87 billion USD, [...]

An ugly spat between local developers and government officials in Phuket, one of Thailand’s and Asia’s most luxurious resort property markets (pictured on right) threatens to derail the country’s stellar rise to real-estate supremacy evident in the last few years. A series of government-sponsored investigations over encroachment onto public land and allegations of corruption and [...]