Pangasinan Housing Fair
The first-ever two-day Pangasinan Housing Fair kicked off Thursday at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center here. The is sponsored jointly by the United Architects of the Philippines-Pangasinan Scale Chapter, in partnership with the provincial government and the Pag-IBIG Fund. Engr. Alvin Bigay, Provincial Housing and Urban Development Officer, said the event is in line [...]
China’s non-manufacturing activity goes up
China’s non-manufacturing activity rose in August despite the country’s slowing economy, an industry group said Monday. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) of China’s non-manufacturing sector came in at 56.3 percent in August, up from 55.6 percent a month earlier, according to the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP). A reading of 50 or above [...]
Australian-based multinational property management and investment company
The Australian-based multinational property management and investment company, Lend Lease said on Monday, it would invest more capital in Asia, focusing on the retail sector in Singapore, Malaysia and China in the near term. “The outlook for Lend Lease is very positive, provided we execute well on the delivery of this pipeline,” Lend Lease chairman [...]
Australian mixed housing finance data
Australian mixed housing finance data would not prevent the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) from raising the cash rate in November, economists said on Monday. Australian housing finance commitments for owner-occupied housing rose one percent in August to 47,540, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said on Monday. While the median market forecast was for [...]
Residential Property Prices in Ireland
Residential property prices in Ireland continued to plummet in November, according to figures from the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO) released on Tuesday. In the year to November, prices of houses and apartments nationwide fell by 15.6 percent. This is the biggest annual fall since February 2010 and compares with a decline of 11.5 percent [...]
South East Asia Property Awards 2011 Winners
Winners of the inaugural South East Asia Property Awards 2011 were announced last night (November 30, 2011), at a Gala Dinner attended by over 300 industry leaders at Singapore’s Hotel Fort Canning. Winners of the 2011 South East Asia Property Awards are: Best Developer (SE Asia) Far East Organization Best Villa Development (SE Asia) Song [...]
Lopez-owned First Philippine Industrial Corp Rebuilds West Tower Condo
The Lopez-owned First Philippine Industrial Corp. (FPIC) said that the rehabilitation works at the 22-storey West Tower condominium building in Makati City that was affected by last year’s oil spillage will be completed before the year ends. FPIC President Tony Mabasa said the company and its contractors had completed assessments of the building’s rehabilitation needs [...]
Booming US Healthcare Construction Projects
Healthcare real estate construction rebounded nearly 49 percent in 2010 – and Hammes Company led the way. Last year, the costs of completed healthcare construction projects nationwide totaled about $12.6 billion, up sharply from the roughly $8.5 billion completed during 2009. And, as it has been for 12 consecutive years, Hammes Company was the nation’s [...]
Japan Real Estate Company to Build Condo Towers in Singapore
Mitsubishi Estate Co. <8802> said Thursday that it will construct two condominium towers in Singapore in a joint project with local real estate developer CapitaLand Residential Singapore. The major Japanese real restate company will invest 5 billion yen in the project, or 25 pct of the total costs.