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Beijing Office 1H 2018

01 May 2018

Underpinned by stable economic growth, the Beijing Grade A office market recorded a largely positive performance in 2017. A total of 819,200 sq m of new supply was launched during the year, registering a 12.2% year-on-year (YoY) growth and marking a record high since 2009. Total Grade A office stock increased by 8.3% YoY to 10.7 million sq m by the end of 2017.

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Guangzhou Residential - 1H 2018

01 May 2018

Guangzhou continues to attract people from all over China. It offers a modern living standard, high-level resources, abundant job opportunities, and a steady economy. It is not only a first-tier city in China, but also upgraded to "alpha level", being among the top 50 global cities in World Urban System Rankings, released by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) in June 2017.

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Hong Kong Industrial - 1H 2018

01 May 2018

Residential, retail, even office values regularly grab headlines in local newspapers but not so industrial prices which is surprising, because the sector has proved to be the quiet achiever of the Hong Kong property market over recent years. If luxury residential, prime retail and Grade A office prices have risen by 152%, 82% and 243% respectively since Q4/2008, industrial prices are up by a full 263% and warehouse values by 270%. This stratospheric growth is often overlooked by investors focused on more traditional asset classes in established locations. So what are the reasons behind this outperformance and will it continue?

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Jakarta Retail - 1H 2018

01 May 2018

Jakarta is Indonesia’s economic powerhouse, priding itself as being the nation’s main commercial, political and business hub. Jakarta follows a similar trajectory to Indonesia’s GDP growth rate and historically has maintained figures even higher than Indonesia. Its annual GRDP1 growth rate for FY2017 stood at 6.22%, outperforming Indonesia’s which stood at 5.07%. Infrastructure development and a conducive business and investment climate contributed to the city’s economic growth. Meanwhile, household consumption remained subdued in 2017. Nevertheless, Jakarta’s consumer confidence index in February 2018 improved to 126.7, compared with 124.0 in February 2017.

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Kuala Lumpur Retail - 1H 2018

01 May 2018

New malls continue to sprout in the Kuala Lumpur suburbs. Five new malls, all of which are in the suburbs, were completed in 2017: KL Gateway (300,000 sq ft), Ikano’s MyTOWN Shopping Centre (1.1 million sq ft), CapitaLand’s Melawati Mall (620,000 sq ft), Amerin Mall (155,000 sq ft) and phase two of Mitsui Outlet Park KLIA (97,000 sq ft). The newest malls, which opened in January 2018, are the M Square Shopping Centre (380,000 sq ft) in Puchong and Evo Bangi (245,000 sq ft).

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