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Latest news and features on international property, including developers, buying habits and property price trends.
Crashing waves on beach at Kalim beach Phuket. Photo: Shutterstock
Thailand

Bangkok’s housing glut spreads to Phuket as developers eye tourist demand

Unsold inventory in Phuket rose to 4,982 units across 16 projects at the end of the fourth quarter last year, Colliers said.

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Architecture and design

When the Lady of the manor returned to her English country home

Hong Kong property

Hong Kong’s Link takes rental hits amid fight to retain retail tenants

Hong Kong property

NWD-led group gets US$166 million from home sales in Hong Kong Southern district

Buyers include people from The Peak, the Southern district, Kowloon, as well as affluent individuals from mainland China and overseas.

Deep Water Pavilia in Wong Chuk Hang. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong property

HKEX chairman Carlson Tong sells Pok Fu Lam luxury home for US$9 million

The four-bedroom house at Villa Cecil fetched around three times the investment in 2000.

Hong Kong property

Hong Kong’s Gale Well continues asset sales with US$66 million Stanley property

The deleveraging property investor has sold a number of properties recently, while other assets remain on the market.

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Property investment

The View | Trump’s war on universities not a threat to student housing market

The market remains attractive despite the scapegoating of foreign students in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

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People walk through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong property

As Hong Kong office rents plummet, landlords upgrade with video walls

JLL says nearly 44 per cent of Hong Kong’s grade A office space is more than 30 years old.

Middle East

Capital from Hong Kong, mainland China sets sights on UAE property

Inquiries from Chinese buyers surge and Hong Kong’s Gaw Capital and Black Spade Capital make investments.

Property financing

Lawrence Ho’s family office invests in Hong Kong real estate broker IFCX

Investment by Black Spade follows the billionaire’s bet on Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast Auto in 2023.

Black Spade signs a deal to invest in IFCX, its first venture into the real estate sector. Photo: Handout
Asia housing and property

Indonesia, Vietnam industrial property demand to rise: Knight Frank

Knight Frank says demand for manufacturing-related real estate could rise by as much as 20 per cent in Indonesia and Vietnam.

An apparel factory in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: AFP
Fame and celebrity

Meet car loan billionaire Don Hankey’s glam daughter-in-law Skye Hankey

Married to the billionaire’s son Rufus, the socialite is known for her extravagant lifestyle and impressive collection of luxury handbags, but keeps her private life low key.

Thailand

Earthquake jitters sway Thailand’s market for high-rise office towers

Concerns over building safety are adding further pressure to a market that was already grappling with slowing demand.

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Asia housing and property

Wealthy Chinese turn away from US real estate amid Trump’s trade war

A growing number of Chinese homebuyers are shifting their attention to markets like Thailand, Australia, Singapore and the UK.

Potential homebuyers evaluate residential promotions from a salesperson at the 47th House and Condo Expo in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 20, 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE
Hong Kong property

Hong Kong office tenants pay world’s second-highest costs: Savills

City’s office-space costs, which trail only London’s West End, declined 1.1 per cent in the first quarter, property consultancy says.

A tram travels among office buildings in Central on January 17, 2025. Photo: Edmond So
Banking & finance

Macroscope | A world economy on the brink could use some win-win cooperation

With a global financial crisis looming, governments are left with few options beyond bracing for what’s to come and working together.

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Asia housing and property

The View | Trump tariff storm can’t take shine off US property market

Trump’s reckless policies have caused a surge in risk, but the US property market will continue to capitalise on its unique strengths.

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Hong Kong

Asia-Pacific office tenants eye flexible spaces, short leases as trade war lingers

Despite a 42 per cent slide over the past six years, prime office rents in Hong Kong remained the most expensive in the region.

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Jakarta’s business district as seen on April 14, 2025. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

Opinion | China can offer Trump the trillions of investment dollars America needs

If Trump’s Maga goal is genuine, cooperation with China – and opening the doors to Chinese investment – is his only rational choice.

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Asia housing and property

The View | Asian real estate in a Trumpian age: buy Japan and India, avoid China?

While China might be fertile ground for experienced investors, Japan and India have more of the stability and fundamentals markets demand.

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Singapore

Ong Beng Seng to step down from Singapore property firm amid Iswaran scandal

The man who brought Formula One to Singapore is leaving his property firm, with a guilty plea pending in a prominent corruption scandal.

Ong Beng Seng arrives at a court in Singapore in October last year. Photo: Reuters
Asia housing and property

The View | Why Asian real estate is safe from Trump’s tariff blitz

Trump’s tariffs will inevitably dampen sentiment towards Asian real estate, but domestic demand will act as a shock absorber.

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People walk along Shibuya Crossing during snowfall in Tokyo on March 4. Japan’s safe-haven credentials, the boom in overseas tourism amid the plunge in the yen and growing confidence in reflation help explain why Tokyo was the best-performing commercial property investment market among the leading cities in Asia for the last three years. Photo: AFP
Spain

Spaniards march in 40 cities to protest growing housing crisis

Thousands marched in the capital Madrid and 30 other cities, organised by housing activists and backed by Spain’s main trade unions.

Asia housing and property

The View | How Indonesia can calm property investors’ fears of a return to 1998

Concern about democratic backsliding and poor liquidity are obscuring otherwise solid fundamentals in one of Asia’s largest markets.

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Hong Kong property

2 of Hong Kong’s biggest developers miss profit goals amid slump

‘The global economy is expected to remain challenging in 2025’, says CK Asset chairman Victor Li Tzar-kuoi.

CK Asset chairman Victor Li Tzar-kuoi. Photo: Handout
Asia housing and property

The View | Asia’s commercial property market growing in diversity and complexity

While a shortage of investible assets and less attractive returns pose challenges, commercial property in Asia has come far in recent years.

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Tokyo Skytree stands between buildings in a residential area of Tokyo on February 20. Photo: AFP
Property financing

American demand for overseas property, residency surges under Trump

UK, Portugal and Australia see influx as investment migration becomes ‘essential insurance’ against uncertainty, consultant says.

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Millionaires and billionaires

Meet billionaire Vlad Doronin, the ‘Russian James Bond’ behind Aman hotels

Vladislav Doronin, CEO of the ultra-luxurious Aman Resorts, just sold his Miami-area home for a whopping US$120 million – so who is he exactly?

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