RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) has recently commissioned Savills Research to produce a report on a number of key housing markets across Asia including Mainland China (Shanghai and Beijing), Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan (Tokyo), Korea (Seoul), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and Thailand (Bangkok), detailing how housing systems have evolved against the wider national economic and
socio-demographic contexts of selected Asian countries over the last 50-60 years (before the recent serious financial turmoil in the United States).