Real Estate

Bloomberg Hong Kong will add artificial islands to counter a runaway property market that’s made the city the world’s least affordable for housing. The government will aim to reclaim 1,700 acres (688 hectares) off Lantau Island, the city’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday in a policy address. That compares with the 1,670 acres of extra land that a ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Taking advantage of the region’s largest gathering of real estate professionals, developers took to the halls of the Dubai World Trade Centre to announce and showcase projects worth billions of dirhams. Out of the 300 companies at Cityscape Global, five local developers have exhibited projects worth a total AED38.7 billion ($10.54bn) making up a large portion of ...

Bloomberg Singapore private home prices are still inching higher —albeit at the slowest pace in five quarters — even after the government imposed additional property curbs to avoid the risk of a sharp correction that could be destabilising to the city-state’s economy. An index tracking private residential prices increased 0.5 percent in the three months ended September 30 compared to ...

Bloomberg Foreign buyers face higher taxes on their purchase of homes in the UK as Prime Minister Theresa May starts unveiling policy plans before her Conservative party conference. The government said it will launch a consultation to increase stamp duty on individuals and companies not paying tax in the UK Ministers are considering a rate ranging from 1 percent to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Aldar Properties on Wednesday announced that its 100% owned subsidiary Aldar Investments has successfully issued its debut fixed rate US dollar denominated sukuk, with a tenor of 7 years, raising a total of $500 million. Aldar Investments is the region’s largest diversified real estate investment company. The new issuance demonstrates Aldar Investments’ ability to raise efficient ...

Bloomberg Buy the businesses that hold the real-estate assets rather than the ones that sell them. That’s the message from a growing number of analysts in Singapore who say REITs, or real estate investment trusts, are a better bet than developers in light of the island’s recent cooling measures. For much of 2017 and the first half of this year, ...

Bloomberg Property developers are cutting prices in Hong Kong to lure buyers amid the increasing downside risks in the world’s least-affordable housing market. Vanke Property Overseas Ltd. released 231 units of its new project Le Point in Tuen Mun, with prices as low as HK$9,878 ($1,265) per square foot, the lowest in the primary new-home market in about two years, ...

Bloomberg London house prices posted their biggest drop in almost a decade in July. Home prices fell 0.7 percent, the biggest decline since September 2009, the Office for National Statistics said. The average property in the capital cost $640,000. Trends in the London property market tend to start in boroughs in the centre and west of the city, before moving ...

Bloomberg As US household debt rises and wages stagnate, millions of Americans are tapping into home equity to keep up with day-to-day expenses. Twenty-four million homeowners believe borrowing against home equity is an acceptable way to cover regular bills, according to a Bankrate.com report. Cash-strapped millennials, low earners and the less educated were most likely to think home equity offered ...

Bloomberg China’s home prices rose at the fastest pace in almost two years in August, adding to the likelihood of more government tightening in the housing market. New-home prices gained 1.49 percent from the previous month, according to Bloomberg calculations based on data for 70 cities released by the National Bureau of Statistics. That compared with a 1.2 percent increase ...