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SINGAPORE (Feb 8): Property group Ho Bee Land announced Wednesday that wholly-owned subsidiary Grandiose Investments is selling its Rose Court property in London for £94.5 million ($167.2 million).

SINGAPORE (Feb 2): City Developments is acquiring from Curatus Trust the freehold Ransomes Wharf site at Battersea London for £58 million ($103.7 million) in an exchange of contracts.

(Jan 3): Paris could lure as many as 20,000 workers from Britain’s finance industry with the exodus potentially starting within weeks as the UK begins its withdrawal from the European Union, according to Europlace, the French capital’s lobby group.

SINGAPORE (Dec 19): Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, is planning to set up a private bank in London.

SINGAPORE (Nov 29): Perennial Real Estate announced that is has secured a call option agreement for US$4 to acquire a 20% stake in Aviva Tower based on an agreed property value of £330 million ($584 million).

SINGAPORE (Nov 24): Singapore is once again the world’s second most connected country, based on the fourth edition of DHL’s Global Connectedness Index, trailing behind The Netherlands which retained its top spot.

SINGAPORE (Oct 27): Guocoland said on Thursday it will subscribe to a 27% stake in Eco World International (EWI) at the IPO for its Bursa Malaysia listing to raise RM2 billion ($666 million) to fund four projects in London and Sydney.

SINGAPORE (Oct 6): RHB Bank is reiterating its “buy” call on property group Ho Bee Land with a price target of $2.68, and continues to like the stock for its management’s execution track record which it believes is the best among its reak estate pe

(Sept 28): Shanghai ranks as the top pick among the world’s cities expected to become significant global financial centres in the next few years, according to a survey of finance professionals.

(Sept 28): Vancouver, London and Stockholm rank as the cities most at risk of a housing bubble after a surge in prices in the past five years, according to a UBS Group AG analysis of 18 financial centres.