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Following a record-breaking 2015, this year’s opening months saw investment market in the 16 Greater China cities experienced a plunge in transaction volume Total (...)
The economy in Hong Kong continued to witness the moderate growth recorded last year. External demand still remained weak. Real GDP increased slightly by (...)
Due to the tight available space in major core areas like Lujiazui and Jing’an, the Shanghai city average grade A office rental increased by (...)
December 2015 saw the opening of Aeon Mall Panyu and CapitalMall in Baiyun New Town. Parc Central Plaza had its soft-opening at the end (...)
Due to the strong market demand, the increase in vacancy rate had no significant impact on rent. In Q1 2016, Beijing’s average Grade A (...)
Affected by the Chinese New Year, supply of housing in Shenzhen slowed down in the first two months of 2016; however, supply of saleable (...)
Over the last quarter, more Asian countries embraced looser monetary policies. Together with the launch of quantitative easing in Europe, the widespread global easing (...)
Total commercial real estate investment transactions (excluding residential and hotel properties) in Japan sharply increased in Q4 2014 compared to Q3. Volume in Q4 (...)
The tier I office market in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen has undergone a phase of dynamic expansion over the past nine years, during (...)
Economic momentum in Asia Pacific was largely subdued in the third quarter. Most of the macroeconomic indicators released in Q3 showed disappointing growth, paving (...)
Total investment volume dropped 22.1% quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) to be recorded at US$28.4bn. Most notably, investment in the building segment plunged 59.4% q-o-q or 63.6% year-on-year (...)
Beijing – grade A office rental pushed up by CBD, with increase of 1.94% In Q3 2014, Beijing grade A office rents rose 1.94% quarter-on-quarter (...)
Shanghai – Grade A office rental sees a slight rise In Q3 2014, we witnessed the citywide grade A office rental in Shanghai reverse (...)
Total commercial real estate investment transactions (excluding residential and hotel properties) decreased further by 22% to JPY547 billion in Q3 2014, from JPY699 billion (...)
Office market activities were mostly driven by mid-sized professional services companies and finance companies that were actively looking for office space for in-house expansion (...)
This quarter, grade A office rents were stable in most districts. The citywide average rent remained at NT$2,440 (US$82) per ping per month. (...)
Shenzhen - New supply in the residential market increases but transaction drops New supply in the primary market rose as developers rushed to launch (...)
In the second quarter of 2014, the South Korean economy grew by 3.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) to a nominal GDP of KRW 367.7 trillion. The average (...)
Guangzhou – CBD more attractive with slight drop in office rents The mature business atmosphere and increasing supply in Pearl River New City are (...)
The concept of establishing the Capital Economic Region (“CER”) has been around since 2004. But, there has been a lot of behind the scenes (...)
The DTZ China Fair Value IndexTM score rose to 53 in Q2 2014, up from 39 in the previous quarter, and meaning that property (...)
The Asia Pacific economy is recovering. A combination of faster export growth, higher domestic production and capital spending is boosting GDP. We expect GDP (...)
Affected by the drop in land sales, total investment transaction volume for Q2 2014 dropped by 47.7% q-o-q to be recorded at US$29.6bn. Nonetheless, (...)
In the first of 2014, the China office market remained relatively active with an aggregate net absorption of 945,000 sq m or a year-on-year (...)
Shenzhen – Active demand for Grade A office pushed up rent Demand for grade A office in Q2 was more active than in Q1. (...)
In the second quarter of this year, we witnessed the overall availability ratio for industrial properties rise slightly by 0.5 percentage points to reach (...)
In Q2 2014, the Beijing high-end residential market was active, though the mass market was weak. High-end residential properties were attractive for their scarcity (...)
The Japanese economy faced a turning point on 1 April 2014, as the government lifted the consumption tax rate for the first time in (...)
Office rents remained relatively flat this quarter with Kowloon East having dropped by 3.2% quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q). Demand in Central/Admiralty is currently being fuelled by (...)
The overall office leasing market was active in Q2, while a decentralisation trend has gradually become more significant. In comparison, with no new supply, (...)
Nowhere in China is the current boom in the national Technology Media Telecommunication (TMT) sector more evident than in Beijing, where of the 18,000 (...)
Asia Pacific started 2014 on a softer note. Many of the headline economic indicators in Q1 suggested disappointing growth across the Asia Pacific Economists (...)
The Chinese office market is entering into a period of unprecedented supply over the next three years. There is a 25.6 million sq m (...)
The finance sector was very active in Central and continued to be the most active demand driver in the Central Financial District (CFD). As (...)
Beijing – Downturn in the high-end residential market Affected by both Spring Festival holiday and the tightening credit market, Beijing’s high-end residential market witnessed (...)
Guangzhou – Office leasing and sales buoyant in Zhujiang New Town The office leasing market started to pick up approaching the end of Q1, (...)
Shenzhen - Rent for grade A office edges up Net absorption in the Shenzhen office market reached 17,215 sq m. Along with the uptick (...)
Shanghai – Average grade A office rental dips this quarter Shanghai’s grade A office rental saw a slight drop after rebounding for one quarter. (...)
In 2013, the South Korean economy continued its modest recovery during the course of the year and grew by 3.0% year-on-year (y-o-y) to a (...)
Total commercial real estate investment transaction (excluding residential and hotel properties) further expanded by 38% to JPY 1,333 bn in Q1 2014 from JPY (...)
The Japanese economy in 2014 continued to grow, albeit at a modest pace. Both the monetary and fiscal policies of ‘Abenomics’ have shown steady (...)
In this report, we analyse the Tokyo prime retail market. This market has recently benefitted from a significant improvement in private consumption. This has (...)
In light of the imminent start of US tapering and renewed financial market volatility in recent months, economists have become more cautious about Asia’s (...)
The office market in China rebounded in the latter half of 2013. Given the ongoing wave of completion of new properties in many cities, (...)
The Japanese economy improved significantly over the year in 2013. The change of government and the monetary policy introduced by the Bank of Japan (...)
Shenzhen – Rent for grade A office increased modestly In Q4, the Avic Center, with 72,000 sq m of office space, entered the market; (...)
Shanghai – Office rents rebound Shanghai’s grade A office rental rebounded after three consecutive quarters of decline. The average rent increased 1.5% quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) (...)
This quarter, grade A office rents were stable in most districts. The citywide average rent reached NT$2,310 (US$79) per ping per month, a 0.13% (...)
Guangzhou – Investment volume rebounds The leasing market saw a significant pick-up of momentum with the overall net absorption increasing to 86,860 sq m (...)
In Q3 2013, the South Korean economy continued on the path to modest recovery and grew by 1.1% quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) for two consecutive quarters (...)
This quarter, about 891,100 sq ft of new office space was completed, bringing total grade A office stock to reach 78,994,024 sq ft. Demand (...)
Economic sentiment has improved markedly, with risk aversion no longer in focus. In fact, the outlook has now improved so much that many central (...)
We are pleased to release the 2013-2014 Asia Pacific edition of our ‘Property Investment Guide’. The guide provides an overview of the framework for property (...)
In Q2 2013, China’s GDP growth forecast for the year was downgraded to just over 7%, representing the lowest level of GDP growth in (...)