‘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...
Keep saving HK, China’s coming for your best land
HONG KONG -- It takes around 35 years for a median-income household to buy a 90-square meter (970-square foot) apartment in Hong Kong. So,...
