Market Insight – Economy and Demand
Economic activity is the key factor determining demand for office space, and in an international metropolis like Shanghai, both the national and global economies exert strong influence on the local…
Market Insight – Serviced Apartments for Investment
Are Serviced Apartments Shanghai's Best Investment? The high demand for property that is characteristic of a booming metropolis has been attracting real estate investment to Shanghai for years now. Yet…
Market Insight – New Normal: a Dual National Market
Property prices are currently falling and investors registering losses in China's third- and fourth-tier cities; yet in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and the more prosperous of the 2nd-tier urban centers, demand…
Market Insight – Shanghai Coworking Craze
Are Co-Working Spaces The Next UBER Or Investor Graveyards? Coworking spaces have taken the Shanghai real estate market by storm, and everyone seems to want in on the action. Big Chinese developers such…
Price Appreciation Motivating Foreign Company Property Sales
Foreign firms in China have most often played the role of buyer in property sales transactions, but in recent years we have been seeing more and more foreign companies playing…
Bubble Threat Rises as GDP Growth Slows
Every year since around 2005 foreign media have been predicting an imminent and giant crash in the China housing market. The crash will be so severe, they say, that it…
Managing China Property in Downsizing or Closing Situations
When a foreign company in China has to close or downsize, its management will need to see to a range of matters such as compensation of laid-off staff, taxes, inventory and so…
The New Hotel Order
In the past three years the JC Mandarin Hotel on Nanjing Xi Lu, the Galaxy Hotel on Yan An Xi Lu, and the Lansheng Hotel on Quyang Lu have all…
2017 Shanghai Retail Property Outlook
The Shanghai retail scene continues its ongoing makeover in 2017 as another host of new malls opens for business and long-established retailers reinvent themselves in order to survive in an…
The Beginning of the End for Overseas Real Estate Investment?
On 18 August, this year the Chinese government rolled out its latest restrictions on overseas direct investments. Much has been made of the recent changes to regulations on investments abroad, with the results…
