Property buyers shift gaze away from Metro Manila
By Jochebed B. Gonzales
Senior Researcher
CONSUMER home buying sentiment in the Philippines improved last quarter, boosted by households’ increasing optimism over properties located in areas...
The hidden fortification: Bamboos redefine home-building in Asia
BAMBOO is native through most of Asia -- from the tropical jungles of Thailand and Vietnam, to the resort villages in Bali, to the...
Homeless in Hong Kong: soaring costs fuel housing crisis in Asian financial hub
HONG KONG -- Cheung Muk-gun’s home is an illegal, wooden shack under a highway in one of the poorest areas of Hong Kong, where...
China ousted as Asia’s no. 1 buyer of US commercial property
SINGAPORE -- Singapore ousted China to become the biggest Asian investor in US commercial property last year.
It was the first time since 2012 that...
A master plan for a stretch of Pasig riverfront
A STRETCH of the Pasig riverfront is being developed into an estate that will revive public access to the waterfront.
That waterfront estate — 35...
New Mumbai metro to beat traffic, but at what cost?
MUMBAI — A new underground metro is expected to ease the burden on Mumbai’s notoriously congested roads and railways, but not everybody in India’s...
Chinese cities’ moves to ease residency curbs fuel property demand
CHENGDU/BEIJING — China’s provincial capitals have discovered a way to keep apartment sales booming by making it much easier for graduates to get coveted...
Taguig City: a rising office kingdom
By Bjorn Biel M. Beltran
Special Features Writer
TAGUIG CITY is no stranger to change. From a farming and fishing settlement between the ancient kingdoms of...
Network of roads and bridges mapped to connect Davao’s eight hot spots
DAVAO CITY -- An initial urban master plan for Davao will involve the establishment of eight circumferential transport and development corridors, complete with key...
US embassy’s new ‘off location’ digs
LONDON -- The new US embassy in London is located in a former post-industrial wasteland on the south side of the River Thames --...
Hong Kong home prices reach double 1997 level and stocks rally
HONG KONG — Here’s a scary statistic: Hong Kong home prices are more than double their 1997 levels, when the city’s biggest housing bubble...
Using ‘digital Lego’, communities redesign India’s crowded slums
MUMBAI — When urban designer Trupti Vaitla asked residents of a Mumbai slum what new features they’d like to see in their dilapidated public...