"HSBC mortgage deal helps sale in HK of Tokyo flats" from South China Morning Post

"Japanese developer Mitsui Fudosan Residential has put three Tokyo developments on sale in Hong Kong.
The marketing venture will be a first in Hong Kong for Mitsui Fudosan, which is one of Japan's leading developers. The company's executive manager, Yutaka Saito, said the projects would be pitched at wealthy local and mainland investors."

"Chongqing will impose a tax on high-end properties to curb speculation in the real estate market and contain surging prices, according to state media." from South China Morning Post

"Property sale turns chaotic" from South China Morning Post

"ZHEJIANG" - There was chaos on Saturday when thousands of people queued up to buy properties in Hangzhou's suburban Xiaoshan district, the Beijing Times reports. A representative of the developer said they prepared to sell only 468 flats, but more than 2,000 people showed up. People were dissatisfied with the limited supply of housing and accused the developer of hoarding properties or selling some flats to staff."

"With property prices down and the stock market certain to slump in response to all the bad news, China's emerging middle class consumers would see their accumulated wealth - which is largely asset based- painfully depleted. In response they would cut back their spending." from South China Morning Post

"Sino-Ocean and Nan Fung to develop Dalian property" from South China Morning Post

"Beijing-based developer Sino-Ocean Land Holdings has jointed forces with Hong Kong's Nan Fung Group to develop a property project in Dalian for US$650 million."

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"Property bubble concerns hinder Spain's recovery" from South China Morning Post

"All-out building in suburbs, the country and especially on the coast was the engine of the economy in the past decade. "In the last eight years, two-thirds of the homes built in Europe were in Spain," said Christian Palau, director of the online real estate advertising site Fotocasa."


"The British weekly The Economist calculated recently that Spanish properties remained 46.7 per cent overpriced. The European Commission estimates they are overpriced by 17 per cent."

"New Zealnd house prices rose last month at the slowest pace in almost a year as consumer confidence slumped." from South China Morning Post

"HK developers are heading north" from South China Morning Post

"While the government and legislators in Hong Kong deliberate over whether to increase the amount of office space in Central, or let companies find new locations on the east of the island or in Kowloon, the city's developers are reaching for the sky in Shanghai."

"The central government plans to set limits on foreigners buying mainland property to curb speculation and sterm an inflow of hot money, the Securities Times newspaper reported."

"The number of approvals for new homes to be built in New Zealand rose slightly in September as housing activity was sluggish amid a patchy economic recovery." from South China Morning Post

"In an interview with the Beijing Times last week, the founder of the project - who goes by the name BloodyMap online - explained that he started the map to convince prospective homebuyers to boycott developers who employ violence." from Wall Street Journal

"Mainland property investors have been turning in growing numbers to more transparent and stable Western market since the beginning of the year to cash in on falling prices and weaker currencies. Australia, Britain and Canada are the most popular destinations for the investors, and Japan's property market - considered to be at the bottom of a market cycle - is also popular option, analysts say." from South China Morning Post