22 Aug 2012

The struggling United States property market is being buoyed by a tide of investment from China. Reports abound of wealthy buyers from Hong Kong and the mainland snapping up distressed real estate...

15 Feb 2012

Forecasters are wary of calling the bottom of property cycles, for obvious reasons. But what's happening in the United States has many hoping for the best.

13 Feb 2012

Some useful resources for investing in distressed US real estate:

www.nreionline.com

18 Jan 2012

The Estate Agents Authority (EAA) plans to issue a binding circular stipulating how property agents specify the 'saleable area' of second-hand residential properties.

14 Dec 2011

Buying homes online is not common practice on the mainland. But will a forthcoming attention-grabbing online auction organised by a group of 20 developers change buying habits in the property...

A few months ago I described the amazing procedures I had to go through to open an account with a local Hong Kong bank. It was a lengthy process involving a lot of form-filling and even tape-...

As the property market enters a wintry mood in Hong Kong, real estate agents are increasingly turning their attention to foreign sales.

Waking up from the American dream has been painful for much of the United States in terms of real estate, but there have been brighter spots of late.

Canada's real estate market remains a global stand-out, according to the latest analysis by Scotia Economics.

These are worrying times for Hong Kong's real estate agents. New mortgages fell to a 28-month low of 6,579 in September, according to data from the Land Registry.

The Greek economic tragedy is very unlikely to have any kind of happy ending, unless of course you are an international investor looking to gain a foothold in paradise.

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