Panel Discussion -
Practical Tips from Real Investors
Expat's Guide to Buying Property in Hong Kong
- An expatriate buyer's experience purchasing and renovating commercial, residential and industrial property in Hong Kong.
Chris Dillon
Author / Principal
Dillon Communications Ltd.
Christopher Dillon is an award-winning writer and entrepreneur based in Hong Kong.
In 2002, he bought and renovated a floor in an office building in Hong Kong's Central business district. Since then, he has purchased and refurbished a luxury apartment on the west side of Hong Kong Island and transformed a derelict steam laundry into a multimedia studio.
That experience inspired his first book, Landed: The expatriate's guide to buying and renovating property in Hong Kong, and a companion audiobook. In 2010, he published his second book, Landed: The guide to buying property in Japan. |
Panel Discussion - Practical Tip from Real Investors
Analytical Techniques for Hong Kong Property Investment
- Historical Overview of Hong Kong's Property Market
- Comparative analysis by Area
- Recent - Event Driven Opportunities
- Sars (Before, During, After)
- Financial Crisis (Before, During, After)
- Primary verses Secondary Housing trends.
- Proven strategies to beat the market.
George Varvitsiotis
Managing Director
PropGO.com & PropGOLuxury.com
George Varvitsiotis, Managing Director, PropGO.com Hong Kong & greater China’s leading property listing and information portal. Providing consumers with hundreds of thousands of available properties from leading developers and agencies, property transaction tools, and information.
PropGO.com powers online real estate for the Wall Street Journal & Dow Jones Digital Asia and reaches a monthly audience of over 15,000,000 affluent property consumers from greater China, Hong Kong, and Asia.
Previously, Mr Varvitsiotis worked as an investment banker with Piper Jaffray, Strategy Consultant for Accenture, & Emerging Markets Analyst for Reuters. Education: Yale University, Economics & Finance. |
Hong Kong Luxury Residential Property Market Update
Sherman Lai
Deputy Chairman, Centaline Group |
Panel Discussion - Property Investment Hotspots in Australia
Property Update for the Major Cities in Australia
Marcus Gilmore
Managing Director
MLG Realty Australia
Commencing as an Analyst with JLW Advisory, Marcus was provided with a strong grounding in all facets of the industry. This was further expanded through his commercial sales experience whilst working at Colliers Jardine for some four years. In addition to the project marketing business, MLG operates Property Management, Residential Sales, Finance and Commercial divisions. Marcus was also a founder of MLG Money, which provides enormous benefits and support to the business. MLG Money was one of the pioneering companies to link Financing Broking and Real Estate. |
How To Save Up To 90% of Your Mortgage Interest
David Wong
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
SUPEX Group of Companies
He is the Founder and CEO for SUPEX Group of Companies. SUPEX was founded in 1998, is THE FIRST & Number 1 Knowledge Creating Mortgage Reduction Company & Specialist in Malaysia.
He is a Business Coaching, Training and Consulting Specialist of Success Motivation, Self Creation of Wealth, Strategic Management, Leadership skills, Team Building Skills, Managerial Skills, Training Managerial, Negotiation Skills, Selling Skills etc
Under David’s leadership has led SUPEX to numerous awards and recognitions such as Asia Pacific TOP CEO Award 2009, Asia TOP Excellence Brand Award 2009 and Asia Pacific International Entrepreneur Excellence PRODUCT Award 2009. |
Guide to Buying Property in Malaysia
Zaliha Zainuddin
Director
Tourism Malaysia - Hong Kong
She is working with Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board for 20 years and is with Tourism Malaysia - Hong Kong for more than 4 years. Graduated with MBA in Marketing and Business Administration.
She is Happily married with 4 kids. Enjoying travelling, reading and her job with the Malaysia Tourism Board |
Analysing The Forex Market
- With more than 10 years of trading experience.
- Conduct classes in Asian country such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and etc.
- Currently working with FX Open as a Forex Teacher as well as doing trading on his own.
- He has more than 6000 students around the world.
- Prior to his attachment with FX Open, he was a Technical Analysis Instructor with Fx Consult LLC Cairo in the year 2004 to 2007.
- As for educational background, he graduated as Bachelor of Arts from American University in Cairo in the year 1999.
- Mr. Sherif is certified for teaching technical and fundamental analysis is the Foreign Exchange market with all experience and professional attitude.
Sherif Saad
Executive Coach / Speaker
FXOpen Investment Inc. |
Panel Discussion - Practical Tip from Real Investors
Panel Discussion - Property Investment Hotspots in Australia
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Everything You Need To Know About Buying Property in Thailand
Andrew Batt
Managing Editor, Property Report Thailand
Previously Executive Director of Business Week Magazine |
Getting a Prespactive of The Malaysian My 2nd Home Program
- Background of the MM2H Programme
- Statistics
- Conditions and incentives
- Application process
- Latest property ownership regulations
John Ching
Managing Director
CK-TEN (MM2H) Sdn. Bhd.
Managing Director of CK-TEN (MM2H) Sdn. Bhd. A government licensed agent of the Malaysia My Second Home programme since year 2001. Fluent with the conditions of this programme and those concerning ownership of properties by foreigners in Malaysia. B. Com, Deakin University. |
Panel Discussion - Property Investment Hotspots in Australia
How To Pick Property Winners In The Australian Property Market
- Why Australian property is set to boom
- The Top 20 Criteria to select a winner
- Ten golden rules of property research
- Hot property examples
- How to buy below market value
- How to make the most of a moving market
- Investing in recession proof style property investments
- How to minimise your risk
- Stories from successful investors
Rich Harvey
Managing Director
Propertybuyer
Rich Harvey is Managing Director of
propertybuyer, a totally independent buyers
agency helping investors and home buyers source residential
and commercial real estate. Rich is a licensed real estate
buyers agent, experienced property investor and professional
economist.
Rich has won 17 major awards including the prestigious National
Telstra Business award in 2007, the Real Estate Institute of
NSW Award for Excellence four years in a row (2004-2008) and
was named “Buyers Agent of the Year in 2009 (REIA).
Rich and his team have purchased over $400m worth of
property for clients. By freely sharing his personal experience,
knowledge and contacts with his audience Rich helps clients
identify the true criteria that will help buyers select the best
possible property.
Mohamed |
Hong Kong Property Market Update
Panel Discussion - Practical Tip from Real Investors
Judy Chai
Director & Co-Managing Partner
Infiniti Pacific Properties Ltd.
Judy was awarded as one of the top three agents in British Columbia amongst total of over 10,000 agents in 1995 based on volume of sales in that year. Upon returning to Hong Kong 10 years, Judy rapidly established a substantial diversified, multi-ethnic prestigious international clientele. In these professional activities, her in-depth cross-cultural and superior local market knowledge has been widely utilized, enhanced by dynamic resourcefulness, fluency in several key languages together with negotiating skills in managing client relationships, comprehensively facilitate a board range of expatriate and corporate clientele in locating the most personalize specializes in buying and selling real estate and manages various high net worth overseas’ clients’ entire property investment portfolios in Hong Kong and internationally with exceptional profit returns over the years. |
Enjoy a 5 Star Bali Property Living That Comes With Profits
- Experience Total Healing
- Art of Life
- 6 Reasons Why You Must Apply Healing Treasure
- To Experience Total Healing
- To Save up to 90% off Room Rental
- To Earn up to 60% on Rental Income
- To Give as Holiday Gift
- To Enjoy Passive Income for Life
- To Make up to 50% Capital Gain
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- Resort Silver Hair International
Mike Yeo
President
PT. Grand Eagle Harvestindo
Mr. Mike Yeo is the President of PT. Grand Eagle Harvestindo. He Studied at the School of Visual Arts for 2 years in New York and New York University for 2 years in Advance Marketing. He held his first personal art exhibition at the age of 19, travelled to many countries. He was an Art Director and Independence Professional Illustrator of an advertising Company in Malaysia, exhibited his art in New York and Los Angeles. He was also the Story Board Artist with world top ten most creative Advertising Agency in New York for 7 years. And now Mr. Mike Yeo writes on Resorts Projects concepts. |
Fine Wines as an Alternative Investment Tool
Jeffrey Au
Assistant Vice President
Premium Liquid Assets
Jeffrey is an experienced finance and investment advisor who has worked in this field for over seven years. He was specialising in Asia market and did have managed a sizeable team. He started being a French wines distributor two years ago due to keen interest on wines and now further extend his passion over enjoyment to investment of wines. |
How to avoid the pitfalls and benefit from the windfalls in today's Spanish property market.
- Do your research: Research is very important when purchasing any overseas real estate. I will tell you how can you find information on the areas generating the highest growth and track recent sales prices for the best ROI.
- Track records count: How long has the developer been in business, do they have a good history of completing developments on time? What about their after-sales service? How to check you are buying from a reliable and reputable developer.
- Guarantees: I'll tell you how to check the developer has the correct structural guarantees and building licenses in place and how to make sure your investment is secure.
- How to maximise your ROI: Which banks offer the best finance deals, how do you negotiate the best price and secure rental returns? - I will tell you how to maximise your ROI.
Rebecca Smith
Director of Sales
Ocean Villas Group Pte. Ltd
Rebecca Smith is a well respected real estate professional who has established and grown three highly successful companies in the overseas real estate sector, in both Europe and South East Asia.
Director of Sales for Ocean Villas Group, Rebecca specialises in strategic market planning and investment with a strong focus on under-performing and emerging markets. Her ability to capitalize on the growth of new market sectors and trends has led her to develop a sound reputation with clients and industry professionals.
Rebecca is a well published real estate writer and a regular contributor to international magazines and on-line publications. |
Tax Planning Updates for Property Investment in Thailand
Panel Discussion - Everything You Need To Know About Buying Property in Thailand
Paul Ashburn
Senior Partner
BDO Richfield Advisory Ltd.
Paul Ashburn has over 20 years of experience in tax consulting,
including more than nine years in Thailand. His expertise
includes international tax planning and the development of
tax effective structures for real estate transactions in Thailand. Paul is a regular
contributor to Thailand Property Report on Thai tax issues for international
property investors. |
Legal Updates of Buying Property in Thailand
Panel Discussion - Everything You Need To Know About Buying Property in Thailand
Desmond Hughes
Deputy CEO
Limcharoen Hughes & Glanville
Desmond moved across from the UK as an
associate, to become a partner with Kris
Limcharoen in Limcharoen Hughes & Glanville over 7 years
ago & since then has jointly oversaw the setting up of the
Phuket office; Koh Samui office & the Ho Chi Minh City office,
continuing to set up new offices as Deputy Chief Executive
Office overseeing the expansion program. Desmond Hughes
previously practiced law in the United Kingdom as a registered
solicitor working in one of the ‘magic circle’ firms, & then trained
and practiced at KPMG’s law firm in London, specializing in real
estate practice related to corporate investment in that sector. |
PANEL DISCUSSION - PROPERTY INVESTMENT BY PROPERTYGURU
Dillon Loi
Collective Sales / Enbloc Expert
Real Estate Academy
Dillon Loi is a lawyer by training. He has more
than 12 years of extensive experience in real
estate wealth management and corporate
finance. He is also a licensed real estate agent. He has been
consulted on collective sales worth more than $1 billion to
date. At present, he is the Principal Consultant at Real Estate
Academy. He works as an external adviser to many real estate
agencies and investment companies in ensuring that their legal
and financial interests are protected. |
Investment Opportunities in Distressed Real Estate Markets Worldwide
- Sizing up the global distressed property opportunity
- Creating and growing a mortgage business
- Building relationships with lenders and other Institutional owners
- Lessons from the epicenter: what we learned from California's hosuing collapse
- How investors, lenders and real estate brokerages can work together to maximize opportunities
- Innovations and technologies that can create a more efficient marketplace
Robert Moles
Chairman
Intero Real Estate Services
Mr.Moles currently is the Chairman of Intero Real Estate Services, a leading U.S. real estate brokerage based in California's Silicon Valley. Prior to joining Intero, Mr.Moles was the President and CEO of the Real Estate Pranchise Group of Cendant Corporation, the largest franchiser of residential and commercial real estate brokerage offices in the world. As CEO of the group, Moles oversaw the Century®, Colwell Banker®, Colwell Banker Commercial®, ERA® and Sotheby's International Realty® real estate companies, which combined have more than 13,000 franchised offices and more than 262,800 brokers and agents worldwide. |
How to Make Money from Hong Kong & China Property
Raymond Ho
Managing Director, Vigers
Raymond is the Managing Director of the Vigers Group and the Valuation Department, managing the valuation businesses across Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and the PRC.
He has been responsible for the growth of Vigers in the PRC, having established offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The company has achieved industry leader status in a number of cities through empowering local experts in the senior management rank. He started with Vigers in 1989 in the Valuation department. During his 20 years with Vigers, his forte was in the areas of IPO's, hotels and specialist properties in Asia. In 2000, he led the Hong Kong team to develop proprietory E-valuation tool which is widely endorsed by mortgage banks. He was also credited with several successful and well-known IPOs including China Metal Recycling (Holdings) Limited, Little Sheep Group Ltd, Asia Cement (China) Holdings Corporation, Vinda International Holdings Ltd, Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, etc. |
USA Real Estate A Buying Opportunity of a Life time
Gary Tom
Chief Operating Officer
Walton International Group
Gary joined Walton International Group in 2000 as Vice President of Canada Sales. Gary was instrumental in establishing Walton offices across Canada and setting up sales distribution partnerships with a variety of financial and insurance channels. Moving to Hong Kong in 2008, Gary is the Chief Operating Officer, who leads all aspects of Walton Hong Kong’s growth and expansion. |