Special purpose acquisition companies or SPACs have become a hot trend on Wall Street.
The amount of money raised by SPACs in the past 12 months has topped US$120bil, going by Bloomberg data. The fever is spreading closer to home. Indonesia’s Gojek and Tokopedia consider floating SPACs in the US instead of taking an initial…
With foreign homeownership rules being eased, Laos, one of the least developed countries in Southeast Asia, has the potential to become an investment hotspot and be the “new Cambodia”, according to analysts.
In August, the government formally rolled out revisions to a new law allowing foreign ownership of flats for the first time in…
We have again made the right call in 2021 in the oil market. As the year commenced, we at Juwai IQI shared with our valued clientele, through our newsletter, that according to our global market intelligence reconnaissance, oil prices will meander around US$50 to US$70 a barrel and that the forward price curve is very…
Juwai IQI, the Asian real estate technology group based in Kuala Lumpur, plans to build a data and tech team locally. The team is expected to have more than 1,000 employees eventually.
Malaysia was chosen as the R&D headquarters due to its larger workforce compared to Singapore, universal English proficiency and "a far-sighted outlook…
High-rolling buyers of the luxurious Barangaroo apartments owned by Crown are unlikely to be bothered if the casino no longer goes ahead, despite the possibility it could affect the value of properties, according to industry insiders.
Questions have been raised over the potential financial impact the scathing Bergin report into Crown Resorts could have on its…
According to Juwai IQI's data - from industry and government sources have revealed that from 2015 to 2020, Chinese acquirers purchased overseas residential real estate worth more than US$202.8 billion.
According to American think-tank data, from 2005 to 2020, Chinese cross-border commercial real estate investment totalled no less than US$104.8 billion.
Commercial real estate construction…
COVID-19 has created a financial bazooka for the global economy. Markets are going through an interplay between epidemiology and economics. Governments are having to trade off between healthcare and economic care.
Around 60-73 million people have lost their jobs globally. So the big question is: Is the global economy heading for reset…
New data reveals that Asian residential real estate assets are in aggregate now worth approximately US$90 trillion. That means Asia is home to about 45 cents of every dollar of residential real estate value located anywhere in the world. That’s why I believe Asia is an attractive post-COVID-19 opportunity for online marketplaces and technology companies.
We have…
Lily Chong, the Perth-based country head for IQI WA, said the Singaporean appetite for WA property was particularly strong. She said 60% of off-the-plan apartments— or 30 units —at Elements apartment tower at Carousel in Cannington had sold to Singapore-based buyers in the past five months.
Foreign Buyers account for only 6 % of me apartment…
After a tumultuous year in markets, cashed-up Chinese investors with nowhere to go are tipped to make a significant return to Australian real estate.
While restrictions will primarily stop them travelling during the Lunar Festival, Asian real estate company Juwai IQI anticipates the holiday and pandemic will only accelerate the outflow of capital into overseas…