SM Prime says it will open four new malls in Philippine provinces this year. The company will also intensify land-banking efforts to make it easier to develop properties in the future. The new SM Prime malls will be SM Mindpro Citimall in Zamboanga City, SM…
CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) has achieved a distributable income of S$108.1 million for the December quarter, up 5.1 per cent on the same period a year earlier. CMT’s manager, CapitaLand Mall Trust Management (CMTML), says full-year distributable income reach…
The Housing and Development Board of Singapore has awarded a parcel of land measuring 2.5ha to Sunway Bhd’s Singaporean unit Sunway Developments Pte Ltd (SDPL) and Hoi Hup Realty Pte Ltd after a successful bid. The land is slated for the SG$434.45 million…
Hong Kong’s new performing arts venue dedicated to Xiqu (Chinese Opera), has just opened. Located on the Eastern edge of the West Kowloon Cultural District, at the junction of Canton Road and Austin Road, the Xiqu Centre is directly accessible from the Hong…
Hanoi and HCMC will continue to be among the best performing office space markets globally in 2019, top property consultants have predicted. Troy Griffiths, deputy managing director of real estate service firm Savills, said that it was the case last year and…
Hotel Shilla announced Tuesday that it will actively begin expanding its brand abroad this year, the first new location being a resort in Da Nang, Vietnam. “Starting with Da Nang, we hope to expand our brand to more than 10 overseas locations in Southeast…
Hong Kong high-street retail rents dropped slightly in the final quarter of last year as weakened market sentiment impacted sales growth. According to a market update from property company CBRE, shop rents for the four core retail areas in the city dipped by…
Berjaya Land Bhd’s (BLand) subsidiary Berjaya Okinawa Development Co Ltd will develop the Four Seasons Resort and Private Residences Okinawa in Japan, which has an estimated gross development value of US$1 billion (RM4.1 billion), in partnership with…
Chinese Vice-Premier Han Zheng, the point man on Hong Kong and Macau affairs, recently gave the green light to the official document on the “Greater Bay Area” following extensive consultations with local governments, a Beijing source said. “No party or…
Courts Asia is to close one of its Indonesian megastores. “The group decided to close the Courts Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) City Megastore in Tangerang as it is historically not profitable and the group does not want to incur the high rental costs over the…
Property prices in the country are likely to continue their downtrend for at least the first half of the year (1H19), despite improving consumer sentiment and proactive government policies announced in the Budget 2019, online property company PropertyGuru…
Starbucks has opened its largest Southeast Asian location in Bali. The 20,000sqft Starbucks Dewata Coffee Sanctuary builds on 16 years of innovation in design, customer experience and community impact for the brand in Indonesia, where there are 370 Starbucks…
The Tan Son Nhat Airport could get a third terminal and other facilities at the cost of over $496 million. The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), which manages and operates civil airports in the country, has submitted to the Ministry of Transport a…
Design Orchard mall is set to open on January 25 hosting 61 homegrown labels. The new Orchard Road mall, a joint venture between the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), JTC Corporation and Enterprise Singapore, is conceived of as a home and exhibition space for…
The Klang Valley office market is expected to remain vibrant this year, despite the influx of new buildings which is expected to affect occupancy rates, said Knight Frank Malaysia. “Due to the influx of new buildings, particularly in TRX, occupancy rate in…
Rising interest rates, Malaysia’s slowing gross domestic product growth and unfavourable government policies will limit share price upside for Malaysian property development companies, said CGS-CIMB.Although it expects the property companies in its coverage…