Countries with good health care systems and highly ranked abilities to react to viral outbreaks are likely to benefit from an increase in buyer activity.

The city has fallen off Hurun’s annual list of the top 50 cities ranked by house price increase after months of civil unrest devastated the market

The government has until the end of 2020 to amend the law as it looks to bring property prices under control, but developers say it will discourage investors.

When Duterte pursued closer ties with China, it brought planeloads of Chinese tourists to the Southeast Asian nation. The coronavirus outbreak is reversing the trend, much to the pain of airline companies.

A joint venture between an Australian and a Chinese company will go ahead with the development of a A$18.2 million (US$12.2 million) resort project in Western Australia targeting solely Chinese tourists.

Hong Kong-listed Far East Consortium’s acquisition of Ensign House, an office building in Canary Wharf for £28.25 million, is a sign that appetite for prime London property is returning among foreign investors.

Thailand, US and Australia – some of the preferred destinations of Chinese property buyers – are witnessing a lull in activity, while property agencies’ move to suspend operations in the mainland has also affected sales.

The brisk sales, even amid a coronavirus outbreak that has stopped property exhibitions and an ongoing political crisis, shows how the Hong Kong government’s easing of mortgage rules is effectively attracting more first-time buyers into the market.

Portugal has been widely touted as an ideal property investment destination for Hongkongers looking to escape the city's recent political unrest. But a long-time Hong Kong resident who moved to Lisbon recently said it was anything but ideal.

Hong Kong’s office and retail space rents, the world’s priciest, have slipped under the weight of trade war and social unrest. Can a prolonged coronavirus outbreak knock them off the perch?

An Irish fund is offering rich Hongkongers a way to gain permanent residency by investing €1 million in family-run hotels near Dublin

Hong Kong is no longer the largest commercial real-estate market in Asia-Pacific, having lost its crown to Tokyo in 2019, data and analytics firm Real Capital Analytics said on Thursday.

Investors are likely to reconsider the long-term prospects of real estate in major Australian cities such as Sydney and Melbourne, following bush fires that have destroyed 2,500 homes and killed 29 people, and are still burning, according to an analyst.

More than a decade after falling in love with Niseko, two women entrepreneurs from Hong Kong are tapping into the booming tourism in the Japanese ski resort again with their third property venture.

Hong Kong has been ranked as the world’s most unaffordable housing market for a 10th straight year in 2019, with social unrest failing to make any meaningful dent on home prices last year, study shows.

Office rents in Hong Kong’s Central district, the world’s most expensive commercial property market for a fourth straight year in 2019, are poised to start declining this year and might plunge by up to 40 per cent by 2022, according to the most pessimistic forecast.

Asia-Pacific will remain the favoured investment destination among Chinese property buyers in 2020, after they shifted their attention to the region last year, analysts said.

The new year is promising to be a brighter place for property investors looking for opportunities outside Hong Kong, as industry consultants favour tried-and-tested locations in Europe and Southeast Asia.

Analysts say the clear mandate given to Prime Minister Boris Johnson will finally lift the Brexit fog of uncertainty clouding London’s real estate market. It did not take long for a Hong Kong developer to make its first foray there.

Hong Kong-based investors have been quietly buying up properties in Scotland, channelling their capital away from home amid months of anti-government protests. A luxury hotel at St Andrews is the latest addition.

Investment in Hong Kong’s warehouses, logistics and data centres plunged 52 per cent to US$719.9 million in the third quarter as civil unrest worsened

A Hong Kong-based luxury property developer is making Hanazono village in Niseko its next launch pad to profitability as the Japanese ski resort town grows in popularity.

Prime property prices in Singapore and Sydney expected to rise by 3 per cent and 4 per cent, respectively, according to a Knight Frank report.

Property developers are upbeat on the growth prospects of the two cities as there is a lot of foreign and government investment going into these areas while offering better yields and growth than London.

The legislation passed in Washington, which has angered Beijing, adds to the perception that the US does not welcome investment from China

China’s march into fifth-generation mobile telecommunications technology and the booming e-commerce are elevating the value of internet data centres (IDCs), making them a viable investment for alternative asset managers.

Singapore is more entrepreneur friendly than Hong Kong, according to Osome, which offers a paperless service that helps start-ups with registration and operations.

Hong Kong King Wai Group is motivated by Beijing’s push to forge closer business ties with Portuguese-speaking economies and Hongkongers seeking sanctuary abroad through property deals

Sluggish sales continue to hamper the housing market despite government initiatives to relax mortgage lending rules for first-time buyers.

More than five months of social unrest in Hong Kong is starting to hurt prime office landlords with rent falling by the most in a decade as multinationals downsized and mainland Chinese firms retreated from the city.