Taipei took 11th spot in the latest real-estate investment prospects rankings for the Asia-Pacific region, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute showed.
In the “Emerging Trends in Real Estate Asia-Pacific 2021” ranking, Taipei rose three notches from a year earlier to 11th place among 22 cities in the region, due to Taiwan’s efforts to fend off the COVID-19 pandemic, PwC said.
Taipei has also enjoyed ample liquidity, and the investment prospects in the city’s real-estate market have been recognized by many investors, it said.
Photo: Cheng I-hwa, Bloomberg
“Certainly, in a handful of Asia-Pacific cities where the impact of COVID-19 is currently minimal, there has been little sign of slowing demand. Taipei is one market where leasing activity remains solid,” PwC said in a report on the survey.
Taipei was at the bottom in 22nd place in 2017 and 2018, and ranked No. 21 last year, before taking 14th position this year, PwC said.
Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney took the top three spots respectively, while Seoul was in fourth place, the survey found.
Shanghai was seventh, Shenzhen ninth and Beijing 12th, while Hong Kong was last.
PwC said the poll highlighted the evolving trends shaping the real-estate industry in the Asia-Pacific.
The report on the survey included proprietary data and insights from 391 leading real-estate industry experts in the region.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) would not produce its most advanced technologies in the US next year, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said yesterday. Kuo made the comment during an appearance at the legislature, hours after the chipmaker announced that it would invest an additional US$100 billion to expand its manufacturing operations in the US. Asked by Taiwan People’s Party Legislator-at-large Chang Chi-kai (張啟楷) if TSMC would allow its most advanced technologies, the yet-to-be-released 2-nanometer and 1.6-nanometer processes, to go to the US in the near term, Kuo denied it. TSMC recently opened its first US factory, which produces 4-nanometer
PROTECTION: The investigation, which takes aim at exporters such as Canada, Germany and Brazil, came days after Trump unveiled tariff hikes on steel and aluminum products US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a probe into potential tariffs on lumber imports — a move threatening to stoke trade tensions — while also pushing for a domestic supply boost. Trump signed an executive order instructing US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to begin an investigation “to determine the effects on the national security of imports of timber, lumber and their derivative products.” The study might result in new tariffs being imposed, which would pile on top of existing levies. The investigation takes aim at exporters like Canada, Germany and Brazil, with White House officials earlier accusing these economies of
Teleperformance SE, the largest call-center operator in the world, is rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) system that softens English-speaking Indian workers’ accents in real time in a move the company claims would make them more understandable. The technology, called accent translation, coupled with background noise cancelation, is being deployed in call centers in India, where workers provide customer support to some of Teleperformance’s international clients. The company provides outsourced customer support and content moderation to global companies including Apple Inc, ByteDance Ltd’s (字節跳動) TikTok and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. “When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it’s hard
PROBE CONTINUES: Those accused falsely represented that the chips would not be transferred to a person other than the authorized end users, court papers said Singapore charged three men with fraud in a case local media have linked to the movement of Nvidia’s advanced chips from the city-state to Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek (深度求索). The US is investigating if DeepSeek, the Chinese company whose AI model’s performance rocked the tech world in January, has been using US chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China, Reuters reported earlier. The Singapore case is part of a broader police investigation of 22 individuals and companies suspected of false representation, amid concerns that organized AI chip smuggling to China has been tracked out of nations such
RSS