Being property specialists in Macau, Ambiente team members are often called upon for a comment or opinion relating to what is happening in and around the property scene here.
The Macau Closer magazine has an opinion column, ‘In Residence’, which Ambiente managing director Suzanne Watkinson writes each month. Some of these opinions are featured here. We also intend to include thoughts or comments from other publications that we feel would be of interest to our readers.
New Year’s Resolutions, Again!
Now that the excesses of the Christmas season are almost behind us, as tradition dictates most of us start planning the New Year’s resolutions we’re going to make. Will 2018 be the year you get stuck with the 92% failures, or will you join the elite 8% that make it to the end?
For Those Who Have Everything …
I subscribe to a weekly magazine called The Week. It takes only the best articles from the global online and print media and expertly edits them together giving a concise view of the news from the past 7 days. In about an hour one can be brought up to date with the most important news […]
The Bigger Picture
Macau Vs Hong Kong – how do they compare when it comes to office rentals?
The Boredom Factor – Is it Real?
I received a copy of Union Gaming’s latest Macau Almanac (July 2017) the other day. Written primarily by their Managing Director Grant Govertsen it’s a substantial 186 page compendium with an intended audience ranging from institutional investors, gaming operators, governments and industry watchers.
Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut?
Earlier this month the 33-member general Legislative Assembly approved changes to Macau’s real estate law, due to come into effect in six months time
Labouring a Point?
I’m becoming growingly more troubled over the past few years on what I see as muddled labour policies and practices here in Macau. We are constantly being told that we must “nurture the special talents” that Macau has to offer. But this surely is pure propaganda – Macau’s workforce talent is just as talented as […]
MACAU’S NEW FERRY TERMINAL
Returning from an overseas trip earlier this month, I traveled on the 7pm ferry from the Hong Kong airport to the new Pac On ferry terminal in Taipa. I got off the ferry with eager anticipation – what would this behemoth of a building, which has taken over 10 years to build, be like?
Shenzhen Success Story
Hands up who’s been to Shenzhen recently? I’m embarrassed to confess that I’ve not been to Shenzhen for over 25 years, unless a taxi drive last summer past the outskirts of the city on the way to the Artists Village counts. Well I reckon things are passing me by at a rapid rate, given what […]
Greening Macau
“We do not inherit earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”. So began Sands China’s Director of Sustainability, Syed Mubarak when he spoke recently at a British Business Association of Macao breakfast briefing. This powerful Native American proverb provided him with the springboard from which to address his audience with the trends […]
