CHINA has finished building a national and unified system for real estate registration, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday (Apr 25), in a landmark move that will boost transparency in ownership.
A HOUSING affordability crisis is brewing in the UK, with more than 1.4 million homeowners forced to refinance their mortgages this year at significantly higher interest rates.
SOUTH Korea proposed introducing a bill to protect the housing rights of people that have been scammed millions of US dollars in rental schemes as the fallout from the crisis grows.
PUMMELLED by a housing crisis that caused a record-breaking slump last year, some Chinese property developers are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, but analysts warn the sector is still on course to slow down in the long term.
WHEN Jaya Thursfield found a house he wanted to buy in Japan a few years ago, friends and family told him to forget it. The place wasn’t worth the trouble, they said. After all, it stood in a forest of shoulder-high weeds after being abandoned about seven years earlier – ...
BALLOT for an HDB flat. Get married and move in. Fulfil the minimum occupation period. Sell the flat and upgrade to a condominium. This is the typical real estate journey of many Singaporean couples.
BETWEEN 2018 and 2021, 0.5 per cent of private residential properties transacted – or one in 200 sales – involved so-called 99-to-1 or similar arrangements, said Senior Minister of State for Finance Chee Hong Tat on Friday (Apr 20).
HOI Hup Realty and Sunway Developments opened previews for The Continuum on Friday (Apr 21), with indicative prices ranging from about S$2,580 per square foot (psf) to more than S$2,800 psf.
ASIA-PACIFIC investors raised US$54.8 billion in new capital in 2022 to be ploughed into real estate, 6 per cent more than the year before, a survey of investment managers has found.