GLG Topic: China Property Market

I am sure you do not need me to tell you of the growing significance of the commercial real estate industry in the Asia Pacific region, both from a development and investment perspective, and the part that both local and international designers and advisers are playing in bringing a greater level of...

Chinese property markets have grown at a tremendous rate over the last 5 years and the government regulator has made great efforts to slow things down to more manageable levels. The implications of a Chinese property crash are unthinkable but not unimaginable and there have been many recent articles...

Given that the Hong Kong property market, in particular the residential sector, is regarded as one of the key measures, if not the barometer of the economic health of the city region, it is not surprising that “what state the market” inevitably surfaces, be it during a chat over a coffee in Starbucks,...

However well intentioned, often it seems that government measures to slow real estate market investment and price increases are having the opposite affect to that intended. There are some very basic reasons.