Turning Crisis Into Profit: How To Make Money In Asian Property

Why invest in Asia?
Although the worst financial crisis in decades rocked Asia, hitting global demand for its exports, the forces of population growth, mass urbanization, and wealth accumulated over decades are helping to bolster domestic demand. The trend can be seen everywhere in cities brimming with activity, through increased car ownership, Internet and telecommunications usage, rising consumer sales and a relatively new trend mass home ownership.
Whether it’s the neon splendor of Tokyo, or French colonial styled Hanoi, author Tim Murphy takes a top-down, numbers-approach to property investment. Backed by statistics, colorful anecdotes, and real-life investment successes, he examines how the different Asian macroeconomic landscapes can yield opportunities for every type of investor from the risk-taker to the prudent-minded. And his 10 steps to buying off-plan property in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and other countries where he has personally invested, serve as a methodical checklist for both first-time and seasoned property buyers.
When the world shook on its financial foundations in 1929, the phrase "when America sneezes, the world catches a cold" seized public imagination but now, a continent is turning that adage on its head in the wake of the sub-prime fallout. In Turning Crisis into Profit: How to Make Money in Asian Property, Murphy delivers a candid, revealing read on why Asia can be the promised land for a properly prepared real estate investor.
Features
Provides an extensive overview of Asian markets, both in mature and emerging economies.
Case studies describe buying and selling property strategies derived from the author’s wealth of personal experience and success, and statistics drawn from Reuters, Macquarie Research, Citigroup etc.
Offers a methodical checklist for buying property in 10 steps.
Chapter titles include:
Chapter 1 149 Maplehurst Road
Chapter 2 Why Property
Chapter 3 Why Asia
Chapter 4 Getting Started
Chapter 5 Don’t Come Basic Questions to Ask
Chapter 6 A Land of Great Transformation
Chapter 7 Blending the Right Ingredients
Chapter 8 Hong Proving the Doomsayers Wrong
Chapter 9 Turning Things Around
Chapter 10 The Slow-Rising Sun
Chapter 11 Markets to Watch
List of Case Studies include:
Government back-pedaling, Asia’s new elite, Slums disappearing as Asian cities transform, The new Asian developers barely out of school, Shanghai surprise, Due diligence checklist, Hung Vuong Plaza, Aquaba Resort, Mont Kiara, Equities like buying an emerging country, The Belcher’s, Earthquake risk, Asahi Plaza, Chitose, Country Resort, Niseko.