Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Japan




  
 
"Wherever we are in the world
Its our friends
Who make our world"
Lolita Li saw an awesome cloudless Mt. Fuji, and lucky enough to photo its reflection in the lake recently and shared with us.
" I used to be able to see it outside my window on the 30-something/F of our Marunochi office @ a distance with a closer aspect of Imperial Palace too. Perhaps Tokyo remains one of the best cities to live in the world as it manages to bridge the very best of eastern and western culture @ optimum. What a shame that it suffers continuous threat of earthquakes!"

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Japanese Women

REAL ESTATE


PUBLISHED APRIL 18, 2013
Apartments pay best among Japanese Reits
Sector benefits from shortage of new supply and steady flow of tenants
BT 20130418 TOKYO18 513981
Better than stocks: Reits still outperformed stocks and bonds in the first three months of this year. - PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

[TOKYO] Investing in Tokyo apartments beat putting money into office buildings, malls and the domestic stock and bond markets over the past five years as a housing shortage cushioned rental incomes from years of deflation.
Apartment real estate investment trusts produced the best returns, adjusted for price swings, of Japanese Reits in the five years up to March, the Bloomberg Riskless Return Ranking shows. Daiwahouse Residential Investment Corp led all Reits with a 5.5 per cent risk-adjusted return, followed by Advance Residence Investment Corp with a 5.4 per cent gain.
Reits that buy apartments benefited from a shortage of new supply and a stable number of tenants in a nation where less than half of Japanese under the age of 40 own their own homes.
Japan has accelerated efforts under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to end deflation and boost the world's third-largest economy, including measures to revive the property industry, which has been struggling since an asset bubble burst two decades ago. The government has a target to increase assets owned by Reits by 40 per cent by 2020.  
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/specials/property/apartments-pay-best-among-japanese-reits-20130418


Some Gains in Japan Property


Land prices in sections of Tokyo and other major Japanese cities continued to rise in the first three months of the year as large commercial developments supported the market, a trend that has drawn fresh interest in the country's property market from global investors.

http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/giant-garage-sale-japans-tv-205623516.html



China vs Japan tensions escalating in China

The increased tension with Japan though has caused Uniqlo to close down 42 of their stores in China - they have 120 in the country now.  So with the inter-connected global economy, we do not expect the rate of retail openings in Asia to continue at the frantic pace of the last couple of years.   >> MORE    

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