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Major APAC property markets show signs of sustaining recovery

Find out how Japan, Singapore, Australia, and other key markets fared in Q2.

Major APAC property markets show signs of sustaining recovery

Find out how Japan, Singapore, Australia, and other key markets fared in Q2.

5 key demand drivers for asset repurposing in APAC

Investors are focused on newer assets, and older ones are being driven to obsolescence.

APAC investment volume surges 99% to US$41b in Q2 2021

A quarter of the volume consists of large-ticket transactions of over US$1b.

These are the largest property transactions in Malaysia in Q2

The total transaction value of RM2.14b (approx. US$506m) doubled year-on-year.

Going, going, gone: Singapore’s auction success rates to breach 5% mark this year

Knight Frank says owner-occupiers and investors will continue to target value-purchases throughout the year. 

Universities turn to flex office spaces for alternative revenue stream 

Co-working spaces are providing universities with additional cash flow as COVID causes crippling revenue crunch.

Here’s a rundown of Singapore’s Q2 investment sales figures across all property sectors

Industrial investment sales nearly doubled from S$491m in Q1 to S$924m in Q2.

Taiwanese developers aggressively seeking development sites amidst lockdowns

They acquired a total of NT$50.4b (approx. US$1.8b) worth of land in Q2.

Here are Vietnam’s biggest property M&A and fund-raising deals in Q2

Logistics is still a hot segment with 394 industrial zones as of May.

APAC property investments up 39% to US$83.5b in H1 2021

A majority of the investments (69%) came from China, Australia and South Korea.

Commercial property investments in regional New South Wales gain momentum

Newcastle, Wollongong, and Gosbord are attracting hefty investments.

Hong Kong investment volume surges 168% to USD3.3b in Q2

Institutional investors accounted for 71% of all commercial transaction volumes in the quarter.

Singapore shophouses now investors’ newest “collector’s item”: Knight Frank

The total transaction value of S$836.1m in H1 2021 is already 91.6% of 2020’s totals.

Over 1 in 2 Malaysian investors expect healthcare, logistics assets’ capital values to outperform

Thanks to the rising e-commerce penetration rate and the shift towards omnichannel retailing.

The worst could truly be over for the Hong Kong property market 

Rents have bottomed out and the economy bodes well for capital value growth in the second half of 2021.