HONG KONG (May 2): Walter Kwok, the eldest brother of the family that runs Sun Hung Kai Properties, on Wednesday moved to distance himself from Rafael Hui, the former Hong Kong official arrested in connection with a bribery probe involving Kwok's younger brothers.

CHONGQING/HONG KONG (May 2): China's biggest municipality Chongqing has approached Hong Kong investors with the aim of selling distressed property assets and bolstering its finances, which are under a cloud after the fall of its ambitious leader, Bo Xilai, a source said.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): The low interest rate, weakening pound and near rock bottom prices have wooed property buyers to the UK, including Malaysian developers and asset managers.

Despite talk that the property market is seeing a slowdown and that prices for certain types of property are trending downwards, investors are still looking to buy real estate, albeit more cautiously.

An increasingly scarce resource

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28,2012): Now is a good time as any to make selective purchases in the landed homes market, said CB Richard Ellis executive chairman, Christopher Boyd.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28, 2012): The new major infrastructure projects in Penang, Greater Kuala Lumpur and Iskandar Malaysia, Johor, has presented several investment hotspots for prospective real estate investors, said renowned cartographer Ho Chin Soon.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): Despite road closures in parts of the Klang Valley amid the Bersih 3.0 rally, readers of The Edge weekly managed to make their way to The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2012 last Saturday morning.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28, 2012): “Investment gurus all say that in uncertain times, invest for the long term,” Zerin Properties CEO Previndran Singhe said at The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2012 on Saturday, April 28 at Sime Darby Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR: Government measures to curb speculative property buying have been rather effective.