London skyline The total value of residential property purchases exceeding US$15.5 million is set to rise by 27 percent in the world’s top financial centres of...
Author: Jonathan Pincus, Harvard University The tight monetary policy that Vietnam introduced in 2011 has revealed deep fissures in the country’s political economy. These fissures have...
Singapore The HDB released its Resale Price Index (RPI) for the first quarter of 2013, this week. The RPI went up 1.2 percent to 205.4 points...
By Mike Ives Hong Kong’s government introduced new property taxes last autumn in a bid to cool the city’s overheated property market. Analysts, however, say many...
Author: Trevor Wilson, ANU Australia hosted a high-level government delegation from Myanmar this week, led by President Thein Sein. Thein Sein’s ambitious program of economic and...
Some investors are honing in on London’s property market Overseas property firms are taking advantage of the cooling measures recently introduced in Singapore and Hong Kong,...
Hong Kong’s Monetary Authority introduced a further round of cooling measures to the market in February Property prices in Hong Kong are likely to rise for...
There are over 1.1 million private housing units in Hong Kong Hong Kong is unlikely to follow Singapore’s example by increasing taxes for owners of luxury...
Authorities have announced new measures in a bid to cool Hong Kong’s overheating property market New cooling measures have been unveiled in Hong Kong after the...