Yet Australia’s appeal to many Asian buyers endures, and by some measures it is growing. While the heyday of Chinese investors pouring huge sums of money into Australian residential property is long gone, Chinese buyers are back.In the second quarter of last year, mainland China...
Both mainland Chinese and international investors will be allowed to invest in interbank bonds through over-the-counter trades from May 1 as part of Beijing’s effort to attract investors into the country’s US$21.96 trillion bond market.“By allowing investors to use the over-the-counter channels to invest in...
One day last week, my screen of daily global stock market price indices was a sea of green as every price was up. India touched an all-time high a month ago, earlier this month it was Australia and last week the EuroStoxx 600, the US...
Yet even Singapore’s real estate industry has experienced a marked slowdown during the past year. The deceleration in activity is most evident in the residential market. Sales of new private homes last year fell to their lowest level since the 2008 financial crash, while...
Sectors related to clean energy were the biggest contributors to China’s economic growth in 2023, accounting for around 40 per cent of China’s GDP expansion last year, which analysts say is a “major pivot” in the world’s second-biggest economy.China invested an estimated 6.3 trillion yuan...
The brisk recovery has been a boon to Japan’s hotel investment market. Although hotels only account for 6 per cent of Asia’s commercial property transaction volumes, they comprised 15 per cent of investment activity in Japan in the first three-quarters of last year, according to...