Cities
Learn more about the investment prospects for the key cities in the Asia Pacific region, from Bengaluru to Beijing and Seoul to Sydney, with topical features and City Lowdown reports on the region’s major metropolises.
Explore why Tokyo remains Asia’s top real estate hub, with strong growth in office, retail, logistics, and hospitality sectors attracting global investors.
Explore why Melbourne tops investor lists in 2025. Discover key trends in industrial, retail, and living sectors backed by strong infrastructure and economic growth.
Discover how Hong Kong tourists are driving Shenzhen’s retail growth, while Hong Kong faces challenges despite rising arrivals and efforts to boost spending.
Manila’s real estate market adapts post-COVID, driven by BPO demand, logistics growth, flexible offices, and new infrastructure shaping Mega Manila.
Bangkok’s retail and tourism sectors thrive amid new infrastructure, while the office market faces oversupply challenges.
Bangkok’s flex office market is thriving, with rising demand from startups, SMEs, and multinationals seeking agile workspaces.
Discover how Sydney’s flex office market thrived in 2024, with rising desk rates, shifting demand, and the rise of hybrid office models. Explore key insights and what’s next for 2025.
Asia Pacific is leading the way in major real estate developments, with landmark projects set to transform Bangkok, Jakarta, and Mumbai in 2025.
Discover Sapporo, the largest city in northern Japan, where a thriving office market, rising rents, and a recovering tourism sector are shaping a prosperous future.
Brisbane's office market thrives as the city prepares for the 2032 Olympics. Demand for prime space is driving rental growth and lowering vacancy rates, with infrastructure upgrades underway to support future growth.
Explore how Singapore's F&B sector boosts retail growth. Learn about innovative strategies for landlords and tenants to thrive amidst recovering rents and market competition.
Discover new investment opportunities in Seoul's edge data centres, catering to rising demand from e-commerce, AI, and cloud operators.
Discover the future of urban growth in Asia Pacific: Megacities set to drive economic expansion and present unprecedented opportunities for real estate investment.
Indonesia embarks on a historic $35 billion journey to build a new capital, Nusantara, in East Kalimantan, aiming to alleviate Jakarta's urban woes and foster national unity.
Discover Brisbane's Thriving Office Sector: High Occupancy, Soaring Rents, and Investment Opportunities. Explore the factors driving Brisbane's office market success, from rising rents to robust occupier fundamentals.
Seoul's thriving office market gains momentum as Korean professionals prioritize city workplaces over remote setups. With limited supply and rising rental performance, overseas real estate investors are drawn to prime office assets.
Real estate owners in Singapore embrace sustainability to meet ambitious environmental goals and stay competitive. With 95% of Grade A office stock green-certified and a target for 80% green buildings by 2030, Singapore leads in sustainability.
Discover the investment potential in Hyderabad's real estate market fueled by the booming IT and pharmaceutical industries. With a growing population, projected GDP growth, and affordable office rents, Hyderabad offers lucrative opportunities for investors.
Australian industrial real estate has been hit by rising interest rates and yields, but strong demand from occupiers continues to support the sector.
Discover why Pune has become a hub for IT services and institutional investment. Its status as a higher education hub, liveability, and growing office and industrial sectors. Read on to learn more.
Discover Bangkok's booming retail market with a huge expansion in prime shopping centre space underway. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the retail market in Bangkok has remained resilient, with positive signs of recovery, including the return of tourists.
The Perth office market is rallying on the back of falling vacancy rates and a strong Western Australian economy.
Changing working patterns and an uncertain global economy are pushing office tenants and investors to the best buildings, which is proving beneficial for Sydney’s prime office market.
Korean investors utterly dominated the investment market in Seoul during the pandemic, however there are signs that foreign funds are becoming more active.
The development of a new CBD could bring the ancient city of Lahore into a new real estate era with a raft of modern buildings.
The outsourcing boom continues in India and new working practices mean that a wider range of cities across the nation are able to take part and attract investment over the next decade.
A perfect combination of investor and occupier demand, coupled with low supply, is propelling the Seoul prime office market.
Homegrown multi-millionaires and a raft of new projects are boosting Japan’s ultra-luxury residential sector.
Fukuoka may lack the size of Tokyo or Osaka, but is one of Japan’s most dynamic and successful cities, with forward-thinking leadership and a growing prime real estate market.
The real estate industry in Seoul has been slow to meet the challenge of climate change, however government and major institutions are taking greater account of sustainability.
Henderson Land hit the headlines with a record HK$50.8bn ($6.5bn) bid for a development site by Hong Kong’s harbour; however, the big numbers involved might not be the most significant part of the story.
Singapore is developing into a hub for the booming life sciences industry, increasing demand for high specification real estate.
Singapore is leading the way to developing an ageing-positive city. The UN estimates that one in four people in the Asia Pacific region will be aged over 60 by 2050, a total of 1.3 billion people.
Japan’s fourth largest city is seeing interest from yield-hungry overseas investors. Nagoya has seen overseas investment in the logistics, residential and office sectors in the past couple of years.
Safety, security and low taxation continue to attract real estate investors and occupiers to Singapore.
Rising commodities prices signal better times ahead for office markets in Australia’s resource-driven cities.
The largest city in the world, with 37 million people in its wider metropolitan area, Tokyo is also the Asia Pacific region’s largest real estate market and a perennial favourite of investors.
Unlike most cities around the world, Seoul was unusual in that the city government was the main promoter of sharing economy initiatives and that it started early, in 2013.
The bustling Indonesian capital is benefitting from infrastructure improvements, in particular the development of a much-needed MRT network, which will be a focus for real estate development and investment.
Australia’s financial capital has been about the most solid bet in global real estate in recent years, particularly its prime office sector, backed by nearly 30 years of steady economic growth.
Attracting skilled migrants from all over India, booming Bengaluru is one of Asia’s prime IT and office hubs and a favoured destination for global real estate capital.
Taipei is one of Asia’s smaller capital cities, but offers a mature and sophisticated real estate investment market.
China’s second city and its financial capital, Shanghai is the destination of choice for cross-border real estate capital.
India’s dynamic and diverse second city has the distinction of being the nation’s financial capital and also home to Bollywood, the creative powerhouse which produces more movies than Hollywood.
Not that long ago, Chongqing was “the biggest Chinese city you’ve never heard of” but today, more and more investors are taking an interest in Western China’s powerhouse.
The Chinese capital is drawing interest from foreign investors, despite a slowing economy.
Perth has suffered since the end of the resources boom in Western Australia, but the economy and the real estate market are showing signs of recovery.
The Vietnamese capital is less familiar to real estate investors than economic powerhouse Ho Chi Minh City, but Hanoi has its own attractions and is a key part of the nation’s growth story.
The postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic is a blow to Japan, however many of the city’s Olympic dividends are already locked in.
Singapore’s rejuvenation of its hospitality offer is proving attractive to real estate investors.
Government measures have sparked a raft of redevelopment in Hong Kong’s industrial sector, as investors take advantage of the opportunity to change to a higher value use.
Ho Chi Minh City is the financial capital of Vietnam, its richest and most dynamic city, and the perfect place to witness the emergence of a new Asian tiger.
China’s dramatic growth since beginning economic reforms can be summed up in a single word: Shenzhen.
Osaka is big, brash and back with a vengeance; Japan’s second city is set for resurgence after a long stagnation.
Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in Western China, is an emerging technology hub as well as a popular retail and leisure destination.
Singapore faces an uphill struggle to refocus its central business district as a more vibrant ‘live, work, play’ area.
Singapore has an enviable public transport system, but still suffers from traffic congestion; how would real estate be affected if the city gave up its cars altogether?
One of Australia’s smaller cities, Adelaide still packs a punch as a centre for defence, resources and as a burgeoning tourism destination.
Tight supply and demand from new tenants are pushing office rents up in Singapore and attracting the interest of cross-border capital.
Wuhan, the most populous city in central China, is labouring under the weight of substantial supply, but its dynamic economy and forthcoming infrastructure works make it a solid long-term bet.
A winning combination of history, policy and location has made Xi’an a target for international investors.
Hong Kong house prices have been heading into the stratosphere since 2009, but have the first signs of a slump emerged?
Ancient history and high technology make Hangzhou a prime location for both tourists and real estate investors.
Commercial real estate transaction volumes in Seoul rose 79% to more than $14bn in the 12 months to the end of September, Real Capital Analytics data show, driven largely by domestic investors buying offices.
Osaka is poised to welcome three major events over the next seven years, each of which will add value to real estate in Japan’s second city.
Asian investors are still backing London trophy assets with a 10% rise in deal volumes in the first half of this year.
Tokyo is an important target for international coworking operators, but the real opportunity might be for a domestic iteration of the office-sharing model.
The South Korean capital is one of Asia Pacific’s most stable office markets and also a centre of culture for the region.
An upbeat Tokyo is seeing more ultra-luxury properties targeting the region’s richest buyers.
If you thought the office markets in Sydney and Melbourne couldn’t get any hotter, Blackstone Group has just proven you wrong.
Asia’s largest office market remains a top target for investors, and new supply ahead of the 2020 Olympics is likely to have a positive effect.