Blog Tag - Real Estate

High-Rise vs. Hutong: How to Choose Your Perfect Beijing Apartment
It's a question as old as the Beijing's first high-rise. It keeps us up at night. It suddenly sneaks up on us while we are out eating, when we're in...
Mandarin Monday: Chinese Phrases to Know While House Hunting
Apartment hunting is arduous enough under any circumstances. Now imagine doing it in a second language. Thankfully, this trusty list of phrases will...
How to Find and Rent an Apartment in Beijing: Everything You Need to Know
Whether you've arrived in Beijing as an impoverished student, a trailing spouse on a lush expat package, or you've been here for years already and...
More Than Expensive: Room Tour to Some of The Most Luxurious Mansions in Beijing
It is fairly common for people to make purchases online nowadays, from snacks to apparel and toys to skincare products, the internet has everything...
American Firm Buys the Company Behind Beijing's Sohos
The Dow Jones may be taking a dive, but that is no reason for American companies to avoid investments in China. Or at least, that is the implication...
Trending in Beijing: Ji Zhe Passes Away, Factory Explosion, and Spiking High-End Property Deals
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this? Trending in Beijing is a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, ...
DP - Everything We Know About the Seized Beijing Skyscraper That Just Sold for a Smooth RMB 5 Billion
As the city’s real estate market takes a southward turn, we humble renters may not feel the effects in our pocketbooks, but at least we can gawp as...
Monthly Rent Soars To Skyscraper Heights
Monthly residential rent in Beijing rose a wallet-shrinking 25 percent last year, causing concern for the city's millions of occupants. The data...
Working Foreigners May Now Buy Property in Beijing
Foreigners working legally in Beijing may now buy property with an immediate effect, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural...
The Air's As Bad Inside As Outside in 90% of Beijing's Offices
Ninety percent of Beijing’s office buildings are not achieving substantial reductions of pollutants on bad air days, according to a recent study...
Beijing Kid Returns to Advise Chinese Parents on NYC Property Investment
Many Beijingers daydream about living in Manhattan. On Wednesday, former Beijinger Hannah Han will advise Chinese parents on turning those fantasies...
We're On the Move! Superb Office Space for Rent
True Run Media, the Beijinger's parent company, is upping sticks and moving on. Therefore our light-filled, top-floor office space, south of Sanlitun...
Press Your Black T-Shirt: Armani to Design Beijing Homes
Just when you thought it was safe to dress down at home, Giorgio Armani comes along and says he's going to design homes in Beijing. The Giorgio...
CBD and Finance Street Office Space Nearly Most Expensive in the World
A commercial real estate service firm, CBRE, has completed a study on office space prices around the world, with two of Beijing’s prime real estate...
Beijing Land Prices Set to Rise after Years of Softening
Beijing home prices could reach RMB 60,000 per square meter for the first time in 2015, after a record land sale seems to foreshadow a year of...