Thailand’s king given full control of multi-billion dollar crown property
BANGKOK -- Thailand has amended a royal property law to formally give King Maha Vajiralongkorn full control of the agency which manages the multi-billion...
‘Star Wars’ hotel, Mickey Mouse ride coming to Walt Disney theme parks
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA -- An immersive “Star Wars” hotel, a new “Ratatouille” attraction and the first ever Mickey Mouse ride are just some of the...
HK’s mortgage lenders do business in the shadow
HONG KONG -- When Horan Fu decided to buy a 500-square-foot apartment for HK$7.4 million last year, the biggest draw was the developer’s offer...
Lanzhou positions itself as new Belt and Road economic hub
LANZHOU -- The city of Lanzhou signed 164 investment projects totaling more than RMB 111.4 billion during the 23rd Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair...
London’s Grosvenor House hotel sold to Ashkenazy
SEATTLE -- Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., the US real estate investor that recently bought a stake in New York’s Plaza Hotel, said that it acquired...
Filling Spaces (07/11/17)
Parkway Corporate’s top-offTHE FILINVEST group said it is on track to completing its office condominium Parkway Corporate Center by 2019 after a top-off ceremony...
Singapore home prices extend decline on curbs
SINGAPORE -- Singapore home prices fell in the quarter ended June, extending the drop in property values to a record 15th quarter as most...
Asian crisis and more, Joy Nostalg savvy boss says find opportunity
WITHOUT taking his eyes off his smartphone, Jacinto Ng, Jr. walked into Nostalgia -- the dining lounge at the posh service apartment Oakwood Premier...
Controversial Moscow housing plan becomes law
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a controversial law authorizing the demolition of several thousand Soviet-era Moscow apartment blocks and the relocation of...
Cost of getting on the UK property ladder surges to record
LONDON -- First-time buyers in the UK property market are paying a record amount to purchase a home, with Londoners shelling out almost double...
Hitler house expropriation stands — Austria court
AUSTRIA’S highest court ruled Friday in favor of last year’s controversial expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born, ending a long-running bitter...
Bernard-Henri Lévy puts $7-million Tangier Mansion on the market
BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY, a French public intellectual (they have those, still) was catapulted to fame in 1977 for his book attacking France’s Marxist left, Barbarism...