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                • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
                  Young families join the Tokyo drift from city to country

                  Japan’s smaller centres and rural locations exert a post-pandemic pull as more companies also leave the capital’s orbit

                  A Japanese couple stand in their garden with house and banana plant behind
                • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
                  News in-depthNikkei Asia
                  Singapore bargain-hunters target distressed Chinese properties

                  Wave of developer defaults follows Beijing’s crackdown on speculation

                  Construction sites in China’s Henan province
                • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
                  Hong Kong economy
                  Prestigious Hong Kong flats stand empty as property market slumps

                  Prices set to drop at least 10% this year with developers forced into fire sales

                  People sit on a bench overlooking Hong Kong
                • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
                  Renting in Tokyo: the perks and the pitfalls

                  International tenants may find lower rents and less competition than in other global cities, but also hidden costs and obstacles

                  The view across Tokyo’s skyline towards Mount Fuji, showing crowded buildings in Koto, Minato and Chuo
                • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
                  LexChinese politics & policy
                  China property: $150bn is not enough to lift sector out of its slump Premium content

                  Predictions of a crash hitting the financial system are wide of the mark. The outlook is instead for slow, attritional correction

                  Residential buildings under construction at Tahoe Group’s Cathay Courtyard development in Shanghai, China
                • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
                  Japanese business & finance
                  Hong Kong elite descends on Tokyo for bargain property buys

                  Investors join luxury real estate tours as yen hits record lows and Bank of Japan sticks to ultra-loose policies

                  People walk down a colourful street in Tokyo
                • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
                  Hong Kong economy
                  Mainland China property companies pull back in Hong Kong

                  Cash-strapped developers sell up and shun land sales after Evergrande liquidity shock

                  The Two International Finance Centre building and other skyscrapers in Hong Kong’s Central district in 2021
                • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
                  Ruchir Sharma
                  China is less likely to back Russia while facing troubles of its own

                  Systemic risk in the property sector and early signs of Japanification threaten both its economy and alliances

                  A residential block under construction in Nanning city in south China last year
                • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
                  Can Kuala Lumpur lure back international workers?

                  The city has affordable homes and a vibrant culture, but bureaucracy and a downturn are deterring many

                  Rapid KL train on an elevated track
                • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
                  Hong Kong conundrum: sky-high prices and flats the size of parking spaces

                  Ranked the world’s least affordable housing market, the cramped city suffers from a lack of supply

                • Monday, 20 September, 2021
                  LexEvergrande Real Estate Group
                  Evergrande: predictability of defaults reduces contagion risk Premium content

                  The likeliest scenario is that shareholders will be wiped out while its lenders absorb big losses

                  A housing complex developed by Evergrande in Luoyang, China
                • Wednesday, 25 August, 2021
                  News in-depthChinese politics & policy
                  Private schools distort China’s property market, frustrating Xi’s egalitarian quest

                  Policy battles market forces over for-profit schools built by developers near residential projects

                  Chinese students queue up in lines during a mass rally for the upcoming annual college entrance examination
                • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
                  House & Home
                  Superstition, murder and the mystery of Hong Kong’s ‘haunted’ houses

                  Why do homes on some of the world’s most expensive real estate lie derelict and unloved?

                  Illustration of ‘The haunting of Dragon Lodge’ by Thomas Hale
                • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
                  Inside BusinessJune Yoon
                  Hong Kong property defies the gloomy forecasts

                  Developers reap benefit of demand from mainland China buyers

                  Property adverts in Hong Kong
                • Monday, 22 March, 2021
                  A complete guide to the healthy home
                  Where do you sit on the ‘mappiness’ index? 

                  Health and wellbeing ratings are now major factors when it comes to buying a property. Here are the happiest places around

                • Friday, 20 November, 2020
                  Singapore property market draws expats from Hong Kong

                  Buyers and businesses disillusioned with political troubles are quietly moving to the city-state

                • Friday, 13 November, 2020
                  Seoul woos wealthy homebuyers but prices locals out of the market

                  Its bid to become an alternative to Asia’s financial hubs has resulted in a divided city

                  Yeouido Hangang Park, on Yeouido Island, home to Seoul’s financial district
                • Tuesday, 1 September, 2020
                  FT Wealth
                  Covid-19 and security law cloud outlook for Hong Kong luxury homes

                  Sky-high prices forecast to fall as mainland buyers hold back in the face of uncertainty

                • Wednesday, 22 July, 2020
                  News in-depthProperty sector
                  Hong Kongers eye UK property as they weigh escape routes

                  British homes are relatively cheap for city residents unnerved by new security law

                • Friday, 8 May, 2020
                  Property sector
                  A ray of light in global property

                  How markets are beginning to stir from their coronavirus-induced slumber

                • Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
                  Coronavirus: why property markets in Asia are struggling to recover

                  Homebuyers in Hong Kong, Singapore and China remain hesitant

                  People wearing protective face masks visit the lookout of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong on February 25, 2020. - The new coronavirus has peaked in China but could still grow into a pandemic, the World Health Organization warned, as infections mushroom in other countries. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP) (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE/AFP via Getty Images)
                • Friday, 6 March, 2020
                  The taming of Sri Lanka’s top-end housing market

                  Slow economic growth and an excess of prime property have hit Colombo hard

                  City view and houses and the beach side with beautiful ocean, photo taken in the main road near the beach in Colombo city, Sri Lanka, taken by drone device. photo taken on 29/08/2018
                • Monday, 16 December, 2019
                  Property sector
                  Cheap Hong Kong property stocks tempt investors

                  Price falls in wake of pro-democracy protests lure interest

                  Riot police confront demonstrators in an attempt to disperse them inside New Town Plaza shopping mall, operated by Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., during a protest in the Shatin district of Hong Kong, China, on Sunday, July 14, 2019. Hong Kong demonstrators gathered for another weekend of protests with a growing list of grievances, maintaining pressure on Chief Executive Carrie Lam who was reported to have offered her resignature several times in recent weeks to her political masters in Beijing. Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg
                • Sunday, 1 December, 2019
                  Indonesia
                  Billionaire Indonesian property tycoon Ciputra dies at 88 Premium content

                  Born poor to Chinese immigrant parents, he built a real estate empire

                • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
                  House & Home
                  What the protests mean for Hong Kong homeowners

                  Property prices are falling in one of the world’s most expensive cities

                  Illustration: Tim Marrs
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