Real Estate

ABU DHABI / WAM Aldar Properties on Monday announced appointment of Al Rakha Contracting and General Transport LLC as the main contractor for infrastructure buildings and early works package for the first neighbourhood in the second phase of Alghadeer — an AED10 billion mega development, situated close to the border of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The AED335 million ($91.2 million) ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping’s mantra that homes should be for living in is falling on deaf ears, with tens of millions of apartments and houses standing empty across the country. Soon-to-be-published research will show roughly 22 percent of China’s urban housing stock is unoccupied, according to Professor Gan Li, who runs the main nationwide study. That adds up to ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Registration Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre (IFC) in Abu Dhabi. The MoU was signed by HE Sultan Butti bin Mejren, Director General of DLD, and Dhaher bin Dhaher Al Mheiri, CEO of the ADGM Registration Authority. Bin Mejren ...

Bloomberg Quay House in London’s Canary Wharf is a two-story glass box nestled among some of the tallest buildings in Europe. Its latest owners have grand plans, potentially transforming it into a hotel closer in height to its 600-foot neighbours. The property is the first acquisition from FirethornTrust, a firm backed by two billionaire American families: the Van Tuyls, who ...

Bloomberg Rents in the world’s costliest office market, Hong Kong, may fall for the first time in four years as an equities rout weighs on sentiment in the financial hub. Grade-A office rents in Central and Admiralty will decline by about four percent in 2019, Colliers International Inc. said in a report. That compares with an estimated gain of 9 ...

Bloomberg More signs have emerged that China’s housing market is cooling, with sales in the secondary market, land purchases by developers and contracted sales at the biggest builders all falling last month, as these three charts show. Sales of existing homes, which are quarantined from the government curbs on the new home market, last month plunged to a four-year low ...

Bloomberg This is how housing markets turn. Slowly. Six years of home-price gains outpacing wage growth; bidding wars replaced by sales at the asking price; days or weeks on the market turning into months; rising mortgage rates. First-time shoppers start to get priced out, making it harder for move-up buyers to sell, and the slowdown ripples gradually up the real ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s long romance with public housing is going through a rocky patch, threatening to undermine one of the most popular government policies. For decades, the no-frills, affordable apartments have been integral to the city-state’s way of life, helping young couples achieve their dreams of home ownership and housing the bulk of the population — while providing a stepping stone ...

Bloomberg Private home sales in Singapore jumped 51 percent in September as developers marketed more projects post the hungry-ghost festival month, a period Chinese buyers consider inauspicious, and as buyers moved past the additional cooling measures imposed in July. Developers in the city-state sold 932 units, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said in a statement on Monday. That compares with 617 ...

Bloomberg Singapore home prices may rise as much as 10 percent by the end of next year and are on track to double by 2030 as faster income growth overpowers recent property curbs and higher interest rates, according to according to Morgan Stanley. Home prices rose in four of the five previous rate hike cycles, Morgan Stanley analysts said in ...