GLG News by Real Estate Experts (Asia)

The Beijing market has shown considerable improvements in the last 2 years with some new offers with a higher level of retail tenant. In some respects Beijing can be said to have overtaken China's commercial capital Shanghai 

Several rounds of tightening regulations around foreign property investment in China. Despite this investment has increased as have property prices across the country due to high returns and currency appreciation.

The recent record land sale in Shanghai's prime Nanjing Road will set a new benchmark for the city's commercial real estate market raising expectations for other developers and pushing up costs for end users. This comes at a bad time for the regulator who for the last 4 years have been issuing edict...

This is yet another article announcing woes of the Beijing retail market. But the analysis is wrong, high prices are not the problem.

The development of the real estate sector in India is mainly combined with strong economic growth, rising income levels and urbanization. Ever since the liberalization of the Indian economy, the urban landscape of India has changed dramatically. Initially the advantages of a growing economy and subsequent...

When one hears today of significant short term capital gains being made through trading at the top end of the residential market, one might be forgiven for thinking that not much has changed since the heady days immediately prior to the handover in 1997. In practice, however, the situation is very different...

Vietnam’s economy has shown one of the strongest growth rates in Asia over the past two years (8.4% in 2005 and 8.2% in 2006) and this looks set to be repeated in 2007. This level of growth together with low labour costs and a young and highly motivated workforce had attracted significant overseas interest...

As with all laws in China, it is easier to make a law than it is to implement it and it will take time for China to develop the oversight of its real estate market and close the various loopholes that always seem to appear when it passes new legislation.

The economic and political stability since the elections held in 2002 and the depreciating US Dollar caused a serious growth in almost all sectors in Turkey. This is actually pictured in the real GNP growth figures for the last 22 consecutive periods. I believe, after the elections in July 22, 2007...

Mumbai which is often touted as the 'Manhattan of India’ is ranked seventh among the most expensive cities in the world to do business and stay in. With property prices touching all time highs, the current scenario is being questioned and is labeled as a bubble by many.