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  In the first quarter of 2021, the real estate, power, manufacturing and agriculture sectors received an investment of $8.35 billion because they made the four top investment destinations.  doha property finder The transportation system (42 percent), information and communication (33 percent), mining and quarrying (21 percent), and agriculture (4 percent) took the lead in the same period in 2020. This was disclosed in its Report of Investment Announcements, Q1 2021 by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC). It said the manufacturing industry received most investments, representing 60% (5.08 billion dollars), followed by construction (2.90 billion dollars), electricity (0.26 billion dollars) and agriculture (0.11 billion dollars). NIPC report highlights In Q1 2021, the federal government was the main source of investment with 35% ($2.95 billion). This was contrary to the record in 2020, when the United States of America, with 42% of the announcements, wa...

  If anything has been shown by the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that we can work productively from anywhere. A growing number of South Africans are emigrating or at least moving to another country to experience a new lifestyle and explore new possibilities.  houses However, although there are many attractive options available for residence, such as Portugal and Cyprus, it is critical that immigrant South Africans take a close look at the tax implications before they move to South Africa, said sovereign trust consultant Ralph Wichtmann. Citizens who do not emigrate tax could be tax residents both locally and in their new home country, so they are taxed on the same income twice. "Although you live in another country, you still could be considered a tax resident of South Africa. It is crucial that you comply with the tax residence rules and any double tax treatises in place to ensure that you don't receive an unpleasant surprise in the form of an unexpected tax bill." sai...

  Use the sharing tools found on the top or side of the articles via the sharing button. Copying items for sharing with others is an infringement of FT.com T&Cs and the policy on copyright. To purchase additional rights, email licensing@ft.com. Using the gift article service, subscribers may share up to ten or twenty items a month. In the third and final installment of Deborah Levy's "living autobiography, Real Estate, the author makes a typically impulsive decision, at one point in Paris, to visit Berlin to celebrate the birthday of a new friend with a painful division.  qatar property finder Levy meticulously assembles gifts: a vintage plumage, a particular bottle of tin ('Cyprus Carob') and 'a box of brown glacés, a cicada-shaped soap' wrapped 'in orange-cloth paper, separate.' She spends time building a birthday card from a metro map and rose petals. The next morning, when she had slept badly and hurriedly to fly in the early darkness of the w...

  The most costly markets are Hong Kong, Tokyo, and London. According to CBRE Group Inc.'s inaugural Global Prime Logistics Rents study, global demand for e-commerce fulfillment centers and distribution centers fuelled a 2.8 percent year-over-year increase in prime logistics rents, with double-digit percentage gains in U.S. coastal regions leading the way. Six of the top ten markets in the world with the fastest-growing prime logistics rents were in the United States, with Oakland, Calif., leading the way with a roughly 30 percent increase.  qatar properties Although American seaports and inland ports aren't among the most expensive in the world for logistics rentals, they did saw the biggest growth in 2015, thanks to an increase in the movement of goods into and across the region from online sales. In addition to Oakland, which ranks first, New Jersey is second, the Inland Empire is third, Los Angeles-Orange County is seventh, Dallas-Fort Worth is eighth, and Atlanta is n...

  After two months of negative growth, net take-up on Hong Kong's Grade A office market rebounded by 51,800 sq. ft. in April 2016, according to JLL's latest Monthly Market Monitor released this week. The majority of leasing activity was observed outside of Hong Kong's Central district.  sale qatar Quarry Bay welcomes its first international law practice. Many businesses sought office space in neighboring business areas as rents continued to rise and the vacancy rate of Grade A offices in Central was just 1.4 percent at the end of April. Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), an international law firm, signed a six-year contract with Swire Properties to move its Hong Kong office out of the Central district and onto 15,000 square feet in Dorset House. An international law company has opened an office in Quarry Bay for the first time. JLL was tasked by BLP with advising on the search for the location of a new office. Modern client amenities, including a flexible seminar and conf...

  Multi-story warehouses, or warehouses with more than one storey, are gaining traction in high-density regions across Asia, according to CBRE . for sale The most significant benefit, according to CBRE, is the significant increase in usable floor area per square foot of land. Higher usage rates are significant in land-scarce cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Tokyo; as a result, they are more common in Asia than in other regions with more land available. CBRE anticipates a growing opportunity for multi-story warehouse investors, in line with the continuous interest in logistics assets. Highlights of the multi-story warehouse market include: Due to expensive land and building prices, tiny site areas, restricted industrial land availability, and the ability to serve city center populations, multi-story warehouses have thrived in Asia. In land-scarce places, industrial land prices per developable area are roughly six times higher than in land-abundant area...

In 2017, the value of investments reached €231.8 billion. According to the latest statistics from global property consultancy Knight Frank, European commercial property investment reached €231.8 billion in 2017, up 8.4% from the previous year, after €80.7 billion was transacted in Q4.  buy apartment qatar The continuous inflow of capital from Greater China into the Central London office market helped the UK reclaim its title as Europe's most active market from Germany, which had surpassed it in the first half of the year. Following a poor start to the year, investment in the UK picked up in the second half of the year, reaching €59.3 billion in total. German investment reached a ten-year high of €50.9 billion in 2017, and the country was the top destination for US money entering Europe. The French investment market got off to a slow start this year, but it picked up in the fourth quarter, when more money was invested than in the preceding three quarters combined. This was largely d...

In 2017, the most 'liquid' markets in the world were New York, London, and Dallas. According to CBRE, the world's top commercial real estate investment markets are Tokyo, New York, and Los Angeles, with a total stock of investable commercial real estate assets of $27.5 trillion. For 122 cities throughout the world, CBRE looked at the relationship between market size and capital flows into real estate. According to the findings, there is a strong link between the size of a city's real estate stock and the amount of money invested in that city.  buy house in qatar Findings from throughout the world: Tokyo has the largest single market in the world, with $711 billion in investable real estate, followed by New York ($657 billion) and Los Angeles ($482 billion). The two largest European markets are Paris ($342 billion) and London ($334 billion). The top ten cities accounted for over $4.0 trillion in global investable real estate stock, or about 15% of the total. The Americas...

According to a recent research from CBRE Group, Inc., developers finished more retail centers around the world in 2016 than in 2015, although momentum slowed in many countries as retailers sought to strike the perfect mix between brick and mortar and e-commerce operations.  flats for sale in qatar "In the omnichannel era, retailers are focused on ensuring that they have the optimal mix of brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce operations," said Anthony Buono, Chairman of CBRE's Global Retail Executive Committee. "They are using sophisticated analytics and market knowledge to choose the best store sites rather than the most store sites." "At the same time, a reduction in development volumes will almost certainly favor retail-center owners by sustaining rental rates." According to CBRE's annual survey of global retail construction, builders finished 134.5 million square feet (12.5 million square meters) of shopping centers last year, an increase of 1...