WASHINGTON (Nov 29): According to the US Commerce Department, sales of newly-built single-family homes in October rose 1.3% to a seasonally adjusted rate of 307,000 units compared to the previous month's downwardly revised rate. The gain marks the best pace for new-home sales activity since May of this year.

SYDNEY (Nov 29): Retail rents in Melbourne surged 32.3% in the year to September, the third-fastest growing market behind Hong Kong and Beijing, fuelled by international tenants tapping the market, property services firm CBRE said on Tuesday.

HONG KONG (Nov 29): Thousands of jade vendors in a city in southern Guangdong province confronted riot police during a protest over a sharp increase in shop rents, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

HONG KONG (Nov 29): China's largest property insurer PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd expects proceeds from a planned rights issue to help it meet its business needs over the next one to two years, company board secretary Zhang Xiaoli said on Tuesday.

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Bandar Sri Sendayan in Negri Sembilan may not have been a familiar name to many. But that changed earlier this year when the government announced that the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base in Sungei Besi would be relocated to the township.

A resort-like home in an exclusive, landscaped and eco-friendly precinct is what the new Bayou Creek Precinct 7 homes in Mulpha International’s Leisure Farm Resort in Johor aims to offer.

For over a decade, property player Mulpha International has been astutely building an international portfolio of property developments and investments around the region. In fact, Mulpha has surged ahead of its peers to become the largest Malaysian real estate investor and developer in Australia.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 25): S P Setia Bhd's bid to lead a £5.5 billion (RM27 billion) redevelopment project in London came to a halt when lenders to the beleaguered project declined its preliminary offer.

PETALING JAYA: Property developer OSK Property Holdings Bhd's The Atria in Damansara Jaya is off to a running start. It sold off all of its The Atria SOFO (Small Office Flexible Office) suites on the first day of launch last Friday.