The prime minister’s support for the 'Vietnam's Silicon Valley' initiative has prompted HCMC to push ahead with a plan to merge three districts into one administrative unit.
The plan, which will to combine Districts 2, 9 and Thu Duc into one administrative unit and make it an "innovative urban area," has been submitted by the…
Cross-border buyers, with the majority from Asia, purchased 500,000 homes in the G7 countries last year, worth an aggregate value of US$250 billion, says property portal Juwai.com.
While the largest number of cross-border property buyers originate in mainland China, significant numbers also come from the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Singapore, India,…
Shan Saeed is chief economist at Kuala Lumpur-based IQI Global, the largest real estate agency network in Southeast Asia.
China's Belt and Road Initiative program is big -- so big that it scares political leaders in Western countries while at the same time providing them with an easy target for criticism.
The BRI encompasses more than 130…
Inquiries are hard to turn into sales, however, when there is still so much uncertainty about how bad the economic fallout could be. What is more, much of the world is still bound by restrictions on travel and movement. "In large part, Chinese consumer activity is coming back. But buyers can't yet travel to sign…
KUALA LUMPUR: As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads across the world creating new epicentres, Malaysia is taking a pragmatic approach in extending the movement control order (MCO) for another two weeks while relaxing certain regulations, says an analyst.
Juwai IQI chief economist Shan Saeed said the government’s decision to extend the MCO while accommodating the need to…
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 -- As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world creating new epicentres, Malaysia is taking a pragmatic approach in extending the movement control order (MCO) for another two weeks while relaxing certain regulations, says an analyst.
Juwai IQI chief economist Shan Saeed said the government’s decision to extend the MCO while accommodating the need…
KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 — The ringgit is expected to bounce back amid volatility and unpredictable currency markets, said Juwai IQI Global chief economist Shan Saeed.
He said the US dollar is expected to further weaken in the coming quarters as the US Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point to…
KUALA LUMPUR: Political wrangling could add a burden to the country’s economy, economists said, as the stock exchange closed at its lowest point yesterday since late 2010.
The experts believe the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government could deter investors looking for stability at a time when the coronavirus outbreak and trade war between the United…
IQI, the No. 1 real estate network in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, which sold US$1 billion of property in 2019, is betting big on the Dubai market with the announcement of opening its new Dubai office, its second, to cater to the growing local and international demand for Dubai real estate.
In 2019, IQI…
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 -- Chinese buyers accounted for RM8.4 billion worth of property sales in 2018, which is 12.1 per cent of the total transaction value and 0.4 per cent of total transaction share, according to an economics report from Chinese international property portal, Juwai.com, and Malaysian real estate agency network, IQI Global.
The…