PropertyO News
Commercial property, Mar 2009
Growth for auckland airport
Auckland Airport is looking to increase its small share of the low-cost carrier market under a growth strategy unveiled to investors...
Tue, Mar 31, 2009
Feeling the heat
Over 20 foreign banks including giants like Merrill Lynch, Bank of American, HBOS, RBS and Bank of Tokyo are withdrawing or considering scaling back lending to the commercial property market in Australia, it is claimed...
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
Micro-managing emigration
It's no secret that hoards of Brits would love to escape the economic downturn and move to pastures new, but who knew it would be quite so many? New research has found that four out of every five people living in Britain are desperate to emigrate, with the majority hoping to sun it up in Florida...
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
Foreigners shunning nz
Foreign buyers are shunning the New Zealand property investment market with the number of deals plummeting, according to the latest analysis...
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
Tax cuts for south korea
In an effort to stimulate their stalled domestic property market, South Korea has introduced new measures, including reducing the level of capital gains tax on land sales, in the hope that this will reverse the drop in demand...
Fri, Mar 20, 2009
Cracking the code
The building and construction sector has become a mainstay of the United Arab Emirates' economy over recent years and is now the third largest sector of the economy after oil and trade. After years of following British standards in the absence of a formal construction code, Dubai led the way with the development of a UAE building code...
Thu, Mar 19, 2009
Dispute resolution in dubai
A new mediation centre for real estate disputes is to be set up in Dubai to settle as many claims as possible before they have to resort to the higher Property Court...
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
Construction stalls in nz
A large number of big construction jobs in Auckland, New Zealand, have been temporarily shelved...
Fri, Mar 13, 2009
New zealand goes commercial
The volume of non-residential building work has increased for the two most recent quarters and the commercial building sector is faring better than the house-building business, according to Statistics New Zealand...
Wed, Mar 11, 2009
New mall for malaysia
Aero Mall, the first stand-alone and external airport mall in Malaysia currently under construction at Senai Airport, is scheduled to open by the end of the year...
Wed, Mar 11, 2009