Global property

Property in Dubai

Some of the best property bargains are to be found outside the developed world. The risks of buying in places such as Latin America, Asia or Africa can be high, but so are the potential returns.

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Is China really facing a property bubble?

(16 November 09)

Plenty of pundits are warning that Chinese house prices are in bubble territory. But China's housing market is a lot more complicated than the UK's, and fears of a bubble may be overblown. Cris Sholto Heaton explains why.

Singapore © Bloomberg

Promising plays on Asian real estate

(30 October 09)– Subscriber only Secure padlock

In common with commercial property stocks in Britain, Asian real estate investment trusts have performed strongly in recent months. Jody Clarke looks at some solid bets.

Apartment buildings in Hong Kong © Jerome Favre/Bloomberg News

The two bubbles building in Hong Kong

(26 October 09)

Cash-rich millionaires from mainland China, and America's easy-money policies, are fuelling bubbles in Hong Kong's property market and stock exchange. So are these two bubbles about to burst? Cris Sholto Heaton investigates.