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Pain or gain? How UK commercial real estate is coping with Brexit Two weeks after seven funds with stakes in U.K. commercial property suspended trading in the wake of the U.K.’s Brexit vote, only one, Aberdeen Asset Management, has reopened for business. And investors will have to pay a heavy price to wrest themselves free…

Growing VN property sales to foreigners HCM CITY – Many foreigners and Việt Kiều (overseas Vietnamese) are buying apartments in Việt Nam, especially in HCM City, according to market analysts. Over 10,000 apartments were sold in the second quarter of this year,  many to foreigners who are permitted to buy up to 30 per cent of the units…

More affordable housing needed in HCMC HCM CITY – The real estate market in HCM City is on track to bounce back, but its sustainable development will only be ensured if housing demand from low-income and average-income earners is satisfied, a report from the HCM City Real Estate Association has said. The report, sent to the city’s…

Property sector urged to seek other capital sources With lending to the property sector almost surely to be tightened, analysts are calling on real estate firms to securitise their projects and list their shares on the stock markets to raise money from the public. In a draft document the State Bank of Việt Nam has…

Real estate urged to seek out stable capital HÀ NỘI (VNS) — Experts have said it is necessary for the real estate sector to find stable financial sources to ensure adequate housing supply as demand was anticipated to pick up rapidly. Even though the Vietnamese economy was entering a new growth circle and the property…