HONG KONG (May 2): Hong Kong property sales volume is expected to rebound as much as 15% this week as demand rose over the three-day Labour Day holiday, a peak season for mainland tourists visiting the city, according to property agents.

LONDON (May 2): Changes to the UK's property regime in the next few years will be seismic. Anyone about to purchase or holding UK property that is valued at £2 million (RM9.81 million) or may become worth that in the future needs to carefully review their options.

HONG KONG (May 2): Walter Kwok, the eldest brother of the family that runs Sun Hung Kai Properties, on Wednesday moved to distance himself from Rafael Hui, the former Hong Kong official arrested in connection with a bribery probe involving Kwok's younger brothers.

CHONGQING/HONG KONG (May 2): China's biggest municipality Chongqing has approached Hong Kong investors with the aim of selling distressed property assets and bolstering its finances, which are under a cloud after the fall of its ambitious leader, Bo Xilai, a source said.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): The low interest rate, weakening pound and near rock bottom prices have wooed property buyers to the UK, including Malaysian developers and asset managers.

Despite talk that the property market is seeing a slowdown and that prices for certain types of property are trending downwards, investors are still looking to buy real estate, albeit more cautiously.

An increasingly scarce resource

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28,2012): Now is a good time as any to make selective purchases in the landed homes market, said CB Richard Ellis executive chairman, Christopher Boyd.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28, 2012): The new major infrastructure projects in Penang, Greater Kuala Lumpur and Iskandar Malaysia, Johor, has presented several investment hotspots for prospective real estate investors, said renowned cartographer Ho Chin Soon.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): Despite road closures in parts of the Klang Valley amid the Bersih 3.0 rally, readers of The Edge weekly managed to make their way to The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2012 last Saturday morning.