Regional Focus Housing Prices Continue Their Upward Ascent While Grade A Office Demand Gains Traction in Singapore Housing markets across the globe, particularly in richer countries, continued to gain, with the OECD's housing unaffordability surpassing 2008's levels, according to Bloomberg.
Beginners' Guide What is Core Real Estate Investment Strategy? Core investment strategy is a conservative investment approach. The fundamental objective of core strategy is long term stable returns by operating core real estate assets that generate a stable cash flow.
Podcast Episode 0: Introducing The RealVantage Podcast RealVantage's co-founders: Keith Ong and Mao Ching Foo, share the reasons behind setting up The RealVantage Podcast.
Webinars Cremorne Residential Development Watch our webinar, where we will be discussing this new residential development opportunity in Sydney, Australia, in more detail.
Global Market Trends Office Market Transactions Continue to Gain Pace, While Real Estate ETFs Experience Surge of Capital Inflow Melbourne’s office market is back in business, according to JLL’s preliminary results for this quarter showing almost $1 billion in sales, double the previous quarter’s transactions.
Beginners' Guide What is Real Estate Due Diligence? Real Estate Due Diligence is the structured process of auditing real estate assets. It is an important step in the investment process that can be carried out at any point of the investment timeline and is carefully carried out by specialists using established analytical techniques.
Global Market Trends Quarterly Vantage Point - Q2 2021 Read up on past Weekly Vantage Points to find out the hottest news during the period of Q2 2021.
Beginners' Guide What is Amortisation? Amortisation is an accounting tool used to decrease the value of an intangible asset or loan over a fixed period of time.
Regional Focus Appetite for Green and Sustainable Real Estate Increases, Demand for Unliveable Homes in Sydney Rises Investments in sustainable real estate assets have been growing steadily as they are increasingly being viewed as pandemic-resilient with the ability to generate stable returns.
Beginners' Guide Property Preservation and its Importance Property preservation is the process of maintaining the inside and outside of a property that may be occupied or vacant. The objective of property preservation is to keep a vacant property in tip-top condition.
Global Market Trends Million-Dollar Suburbs on the Rise, Distressed Capital Waits on Opportunistic Real Estate More than 200 Australian locations have joined the ranks of million-dollar suburbs in the past year.
RealVantage News Invest in Singapore Dollars - New WISE Feature on RealVantage The team at RealVantage strives to continually improve our platform features and functionalities for the benefit of our investors.
Global Market Trends Retail Spaces Make Way for Housing, Tech Companies Expand Remote Work Indefinitely The demand for residential properties around the world has continued to increase in tandem with rising house prices due to the pandemic.
Beginners' Guide What are Gated Communities? Gated communities simply mean any type of neighbourhood with some form of controlled access where residents or visitors must go through before they are allowed to enter the property.
Global Market Trends Central Banks Keep a Keen Eye on Inflation, Big Tech Companies Want Staff to Head Back to Office The Bank of England is carefully monitoring Britain’s booming housing market as it weighs up the possibility that a rapid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to a sustained period of inflation.
Beginners' Guide What is Zoning? In this article, we explain why zoning is important, and it is the preferred tool urban planners use to organise cities to maximise social outcomes.
Regional Focus Perth and Singapore Residential Property Markets March On, While the Office Market Warms Up Residential real estate markets in Perth and Singapore continue to heat up with a high demand causing residential property prices to soar to new highs.
Beginners' Guide What is Inflation and What Causes it? Inflation quantifies the rate at which a currency’s value declines, resulting in an increase in the prices of goods and services in a particular economy.
Regional Focus Asian Investors Move Up the Risk Curve in Seek of Higher Returns and Australia Budget Provides Further Support to Real Estate Sectors Price discounts to some retail and hospitality real estate assets after a year of reduced business activities due to the pandemic has begun attracting fund managers and asset owners in Asia.
Beginners' Guide What is a Timeshare? A timeshare is an arrangement that allows for shared ownership of a vacation property. As co-owner of a timeshare, you are allotted a period of time for the exclusive use of the property.
Global Market Trends Residential Property Prices and Rents Worldwide Continue to Increase, Cooling Measures and Other Government Policies Loom on the Horizon The roaring hot residential property market in countries around the world continues to exceed forecasts, with increasing demand outstripping a lack of supply.
Beginners' Guide What is an Escrow? An escrow is a financial and legal agreement that engages an independent third party to temporarily hold on to a sum of money or property on behalf of two other parties involved in a transaction.
Global Market Trends Hotels Back in Sight with Optimism for Commercial and Industrial Sector Recovery Hotels and the whole travel industry have been the worst hit during the pandemic with major lockdowns and health concerns restricting the number of visitors.
Webinars UK Real Estate Portfolio Debt Opportunity Watch the webinar to find out how you can benefit from this well-secured and diversified real estate portfolio debt fund in the UK.
Global Market Trends Global Office Market in the Spotlight as Workers Return and Transactions Rebound Office workers worldwide are trickling back to the office as corporations make plans for hybrid working arrangements.