Higher interest rates, mortgage curbs and the unknown effects of the general election are among the risk factors for the local market, says CBRE Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr famously quipped that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”. However this year will bring significant changes in the Bangkok property […]
China’s continued economic slowdown is reshaping the country’s real estate market, as investor confidence remains high.
Developers and buyers all want to know the impact on the property market of the 197-kilometre mass transit lines under construction in Bangkok. These new infrastructure developments, in addition to the 110km of existing mass transit lines, will improve access to and from inner city areas and link midtown areas. This will affect the property […]
The infiltration of blockchain, the technology that supports cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, into industries around the world is only a matter of time. The historically traditional commercial real estate industry won’t easily escape. In its simplest form, blockchain is a distributed database. By recording and combining transactions into a de-centralized, secure ledger system, it creates a […]
Placemaking is based on a simple principle: if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you will get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you will get people and places: Southeast Asia, not the least Bangkok, is playing catch-up. In a recent report, CBRE says sluggish retail sales and flat rental growth […]
Investors are attracted by strong occupier demand for logistics properties, and higher yields relative to other forms of traditional real estate. In Asia Pacific, drivers of growth for logistics and warehousing space include demand from third-party logistics operators and e-commerce companies. Direct real estate transaction volumes in the industrial sector totaled US$13.8 billion in 2016, […]
With growth in its core real estate business tied to the country’s economic growth, the company is targeting a larger international presence and a bigger lifestyle play to fulfil its ambitions of becoming a global brand. “We looked for partners that can help Sansiri grow further, partners that we could learn from in terms of […]
Property developers across Thailand are experiencing are increasingly attracted by hotel branded residences in order to spur price premium points and buyer demand. Currently there are 29 new hotel residence projects countrywide with nearly 90% of these located in resort areas. New research by consulting group C9 Hotelworks has pinpointed that the top 3 locations […]
