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InterContinental Hotels Posts 11 percent Profit Led by China and US

InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG), the world’s largest hotel group by room count, recently declared its Operating profit results of 2012. The company announced that it had accounted a 10 percent actual operating profit throughout the year. Major contributors to the profits were its growing operations in China, America and Europe.

Home Prices Hit Record 5 Year High in UK as Sellers Increase Prices in Sight of Housing Boom

With the U.K. economy in recovery, a housing boom might be around the corner. According to a report by Rightmove PLC, an online real estate agency, house prices hit five-year-highs in February 2013. Home sellers have raised prices of properties in sight of the approaching boom.

China Vanke Enters US Markets with Tishman Speyer Deal

China Vanke Company, the largest property developer of China, has entered the U.S. market with a partnership deal to build a residential complex in San Francisco, California. The venture marks Vanke’s first entry into the real estate market of U.S.