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How Phuket Beats Pattaya

Our first item for the new week is an Asian Correspondent review of the state of the property buyers’ market in Pattaya. Colliers International‘s Senior Research Manager Phattarachai Taweewong describes how oversupply in Pattaya is leading to continually softer returns as a large portion of buyers in the city are simply investors …

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Continued Investment and Yachts over Clean Water

Hello and Happy Friday from your friends at PPW. We’ve got a good roundup for you this week, starting with an Asian Correspondent reflection on comments from Juwai.com CEO Carrie Law. Law mentions a few reasons to expect continued interest from Chinese buyers in 2019, from quality projects offering lifestyle …

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New Retirement Channels and Runesu Basement Tech

Hi and Happy Friday from Phuket Property Watch! Today’s first story comes from a PRWeb press release about Juwai.com‘s outreach efforts toward the burgeoning aging population in China; according to Carrie Law, Juwai CEO, “there will be 340 million Chinese aged 60 or above” within just over a decade. In addition to …

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Swim with the Tide

Our theme for today is to look for the big trends that will dictate the course of things, regardless of your business desires. We’ll start as always with non-local news, this time from the Bangkok Post about the forces behind sustained demand in Thailand and cities like Bangkok for investment …

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The Portier Phone-Stay Experience

We’ll start the week off with some exciting Tech news in a press release coming off the CISION PR newsire from Portier COO Olivier Dombey. The Samujana villa resort in Koh Samui is partnering with Portier to make life easier for their guests by providing specially programmed cell phones. These …

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Baba Phuket, Market Tests and a Strong Hua Hin

Today we have a nice calm Friday selection for you, hopefully welcome after Tropical Storm Pabuk’s ragings. We’ll start with the business news of the day, specifically about Thailand property markets and the stability of the overall financial system in Thailand courtesy of The Nation. The Bank of Thailand (BoT) doesn’t …

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Your 2018 in Review

Today’s update comes to us courtesy of PropertyGuru Property Report Magazine Issue 151: “2018: the year in secondary property markets“. We hear some summaries and wrap-ups from analysts and experts about secondary markets’ growth in 2018 Southeast Asia, thanks heavily to foreign investments. Markets in Philippines are doing nicely. Davao …

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Laguna, Allianz and a Big 2018

Today’s roundup starts with a story from The Thaiger on Laguna and how their development has helped to shape the island of Phuket. A variety of projects spanning thousands of units built, sold and lived-in prove the impact of real estate developers and investment tourism on local markets. The next …

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