All articles by Alastair Hughes
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InsightChina and India's new year fitness regime means we'll all be busy in 2013
This is my fifth Christmas of turkey with rice and soy sauce, as I reflect back on another 12 months in the Asia- Pacific real estate market and think forward to 2013.
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InsightChina is Asia-Pacific’s headline act as European pantomime continues
This is my fourth Christmas in Asia and I am learning that the property markets out here don’t stand still for very long — 2009 was an earth-scorching “bust” when values fell by up to 60%; 2010 enjoyed a rapid recovery when office rents rose by 40% in some markets.
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InsightDespite their differences, markets of the east are full of promise
When I moved to Asia in December 2008, the markets were in freefall. The west’s financial typhoon had crossed the Pacific, wrecking Asia’s export market
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2001: a property odyssey
When I first saw Stanley Kubrick's futuristic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, I was just a lad and couldn't believe that such a distant year would ever arrive. But in just a few weeks, scarily enough, I will be toasting 2001 along with the rest of you. Looking back, ...
