{"id":4028,"date":"2019-09-12T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:38:55","slug":"laos-looks-to-china-after-being-derailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/en\/laos-looks-to-china-after-being-derailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Laos looks to China after being derailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a brief flurry, Vientiane\u2019s rental market has sunk back into a familiar torpor. But the arrival of a long-anticipated rail link between the Lao capital and southern China may alter the dynamics of the sector<\/p>\n

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A new rail link between Vientiane and China is likely to provide a major boost for the economy in Laos. Maytrobus\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coconut trees fringe a secluded five-bedroom villa on the outskirts of Vientiane, a kilometre from the gold stupa of That Luang. The price? A snip at USD1,200 per month, a 20 percent price drop compared to a year earlier when this two-level villa rented for USD1,500.<\/p>\n

Vientiane has transformed into a buyer\u2019s market almost overnight: landlords readily volunteering discounts and villas laying vacant across the tiny Southeast Asian capital. After years of steady price growth, Vientiane\u2019s rental market has suddenly fallen off a cliff.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2018, Hong Kong-based New Asia Property published a residential market update on Vientiane, noting prices had plunged as much as 30 percent in a year. Yet the property slump in Laos has largely gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n

International real estate agents Colliers and Savills have released reports on Laos intermittently over the past decade, but in recent years have shifted their attention to more dynamic markets in the region, particularly Yangon.<\/p>\n

Last year, the opening of Laos\u2019 largest high-end residential property\u2014the Landmark Diplomatic Residential Compound (DRC) overlooking the Mekong River\u2014tipped Vientiane into massive oversupply, a sign of just how small the market remains, according to New Asia Property.<\/p>\n

The grand opening of the Landmark DRC has sent the total number of apartments for lease in the capital soaring by almost 45 percent from over 500 units in early 2017 to a still small, but much expanded, 850-plus by the end of last year. In less than four years, Vientiane\u2019s stock of apartments for lease has nearly tripled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat takes a lot of time to absorb in this sort of market, unless the market itself is booming,\u201d says Tony Picon, managing director of New Asia Property.<\/p>\n

In less than four years, Vientiane\u2019s stock of apartments for lease has nearly tripled. But the problem for realtors and landlords in the Laos capital is quite simple: the market is not booming. In fact, it\u2019s been quite the opposite<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the problem for realtors and landlords in the Laos capital is quite simple: the market is not booming. In fact, it\u2019s been quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

Last year, multinational mining firm MMG announced the sale of 90 percent of its interest in the Sepon Mine, the largest copper and gold deposit in Southeast Asia, to the smaller Chinese firm Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining for USD275 million as the deposit reaches the last chapter of its lifespan. Since 2003, when gold production started in Sepon, the mine has contributed\u2014directly and indirectly\u2014some 8.23 percent to Laos GDP, according to the Centre for International Economics based in Sydney and Canberra.<\/p>\n

Since then, the mine\u2019s slow demise has coincided with a scaling down of humanitarian programmes in Laos as the tiny country of less than seven million people graduates from Least Developed Country status by 2024.<\/p>\n

GDP growth has similarly slowed, remaining at a robust 6.5 percent last year, but down for the sixth year in a row, according to World Bank data. These economic shifts have reduced numbers of the very type of person who can afford to pay USD1,200 per month for a villa in Vientiane near That Luang, or indeed USD2,200 per month for a top-range, 104-square-metre, two-bedroom condo in Landmark DRC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe western expat community has fallen dramatically,\u201d says Stephen Aeschbach, founder and CEO of J&C Services, a Vientiane-based company that started out in real estate and later expanded into insurance, marketing, and expat services. \u201cThe big Australian mining companies are in the closing-down phase, and many other businesses have struggled because of the difficult economic conditions here,\u201d adds Aeschbach.<\/p>\n

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Although Vientiane has developed considerably, the capital of Laos is still viewed as one of the less dynamic cities in Southeast Asia. OULAILAX NAKHONE\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Help looks to be on its way for Laos\u2019 struggling real estate market, however. And, as with many markets in this region, economic impetus looks set to appear from a familiar source: China.<\/p>\n

Scheduled to open at the end of 2021, a new railway line connecting Kunming in China with Vientiane all the way to Singapore is widely tipped to transform not only time and space in Laos\u2014but also its stagnating economy.<\/p>\n

Whereas road travel north from Vientiane to the tourist hotspot Vang Vieng currently takes four hours on a bumpy, unreliable road, trains on the new rail line will complete the journey in half the time, reaching Kunming in just 10 hours from the Laos capital. Construction of the railway has required an influx of more than 11,000 Chinese workers, according to the Vientiane Times, amid a 26 percent surge in Chinese tourists into Laos last year when arrivals reached 800,000 people mostly flying in from an expanding number of cities including Guangzhou, Kunming, and Changsha.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe types of expats in Laos has changed dramatically,\u201d points out Aeschbach of J&C Services. \u201cWestern foreigners have been replaced by those from Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n

More: Can Laos really afford its Belt and Road project?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The new railway and influx of Chinese looks set to transform Vientiane\u2019s property market, a trend that\u2019s already beginning. Yao Bin, a Chinese citizen who has lived in Laos since the 1990s, serves as the head of Kritaphong Group which built the Landmark DRC and a large adjacent hotel. Yao shares he built both properties in anticipation of the rapid growth in Chinese visitors, both long and short-term. \u201cWe were very excited when we heard that the two countries wanted to build a railway,\u201d Yao told China\u2019s state agency Xinhua in 2017, the year before opening the Landmark DRC.<\/p>\n

Featuring a swimming pool and tennis court, as well as a dim sum restaurant in the adjoining hotel, the Landmark DRC has become the de facto place to stay for Chinese executives visiting Vientiane. \u201cMost of our guests are Chinese, and some Koreans,\u201d informs a guest relations manager at the Landmark DRC.<\/p>\n

The Laos government has been careful to manage the side effects such a huge project could have on the small country\u2019s economy. Laos real estate watchers said that the government has yet to publicly identify the site for the Vientiane terminal of the railway over property speculation concerns in the capital.<\/p>\n

For the moment, Vientiane\u2019s property market remains quiet as the foreign-invested economy shifts from a Western-led focus on mining and NGO to one dominated by China, says Picon of New Asia Property. \u201cIt could be a bit of a waiting game,\u201d he surmises. \u201cBut once activity takes place [on the railway in Vientiane] we are going to see the next stage of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in Issue No. 155 of PropertyGuru Property Report Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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