Sanya Expat

Here's a quick set of tips and recommendations for the Sanya beaches as we approach the Chinese New Year in Sanya.

Yalong Bay - This is a great beach to spend the day. If you want fancy, park at the Sheraton/Marriott/Hilton/Ritz end. If you want to enjoy a great beach on a budget, park at the Holiday Inn end of the beach and you will find many beachside vendors offering typical low priced Chinese street food/barbecue and drinks. In front of the Aegean Conifer is a barbecue/snack cafe on the beach with nice tables and chairs in the shade.

Dadonghai - The center of this beach rates a a big time AVOID. If you stay the far west end (near the Dadonghai Square and South China hotel) or east end (near the Jin Ling and Shan Hai Tian hotels) the beach area and boardwalk is great. Find Wave Bar for cheap beers at the beach. If you stay in the middle of Dadonghai, stay ONLY at the beachfront. 30 meters back its a filthy Armageddon leaving me wondering why any tourist in their right mind would ever voluntarily sit street side to have a meal and feel happy.

However, suffer the neighborhood to enjoy Marco Polo Italian restaurant, Pattaya Thai restaurant on the beach in front of the InTyme resort, and the 2nd floor Hong Kong Dim Sum restaurant at the BaoHong hotel. Also heard recently that Blue Lotus russian restaurant is currently serving up really good chow.

Sanya Bay - What's better than a 20km long sunset beach lined with tropical palm trees and grass for shady areas to picnic? However, the water and sand are below what one would hope. The best of Sanya Bay is at Jin Ji Ling Lu where you'll find Fat Daddy's and Casa Mia and the Japanese restaurant. Also, drive about 5 km further up toward the Howard Johnson and look for lantern lights on the beach where you'll find local vendors with chairs and tables right on the beach doing barbecue and cold beers...fabulous.

Cheers, M

Does our venerable and respected real estate veteran Sam Crispin hit the mark with his round two jab on the continued boiling cauldron of real estate stew here in Sanya?...

Sam recently weighed in with this insightful and important comment:

"Rumours about of Hainan offering visa free access for nationals of over 20 countries and that the real estate market, as I and not Mario predicted, is going nuts again. Watch what happens over Chinese new year, that's the peak sales season in this hot, hot, hot market! Mario, there's more than one beer riding on this."

Perhaps Sam hits on some encouraging thoughts here with some substance behind them. In fact, with the Chinese New Year holiday coming, he is right on the mark regarding the seasonal bump in asking prices heading into the Chinese New Year season, so there is some truth to the idea that the market is "heating up" a bit. After all, I hate to be a touch negative but the holidays are the perfect time to find more suckers bidding prices unreasonably higher and higher just like the stock markets. And if they're willing to come to Sanya that week paying full airfare and 5000rmb/night for a 15000rmb room, by all means, let them pay inflated prices for Sanya's property too!

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The China / Asia Boom Continues for 2010

Despite calls by some political and investment analysts that China is in a dangerous economic bubble ready to burst, a closer look at the situation makes it easy to doubt that will happen. Most analysts continue to underestimate the power of CASH CASH CASH. Chinese have more cash than most of us can imagine; I'm talking the government AND the citizens. There are many more pieces to the puzzle but this is the leading indicator of the direction most likely for 2010. More so, southeast Asian countries especially India and Australia will continue to benefit from the China-led expansion of the century.

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Sanya Goes Luxury

This expectation of continued growth and infrastructure expansion in the Pacific Rim certainly includes development in and around Sanya & Hainan Island. More so, we are seeing clear evidence of Sanya going upmarket, another indicator of the incredible wealth being created here. Haitang Bay is loaded with world-class luxury brands as well as St. Regis coming to Yalong Bay, and the Intercontinental soon to open, joining luxury villa Banyan Tree Resort on the Lu Hui Tou Peninsula.

Dadonghai

For Dadonghai, we follow the rule as when playing the classic board game Monopoly: GO DIRECTLY TO THE BEACH. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200. DO NOT STOP. ONLY GO DIRECTLY TO THE BEACH! If you follow that bit of advice, you can actually enjoy the best of Dadonghai beach which is its excellent boardwalk-lined beach. Meanwhile beachfront new construction at the Armageddon meteor-sized Jin Jiang Golden Garden complex behind the InTyme Resort has an asking price of 20,000rmb/psqm for a 14th floor unit in the recently open for sale building II which is the prime building closest to the beach

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For several weeks, I've been struggling to do this Sanya real estate property update focusing on the latest happenings at Dadonghai beach. I'm happy to finally get to it...Enjoy, M

Dadonghai is a great beach; easily fitting a classic description found in any of the world's travel magazine "best of" beaches describing a tropical beachfront paradise. However, apparently it is about to become a very crowded little beachfront paradise. Think "packed like sardines in a can".

Here at Dadonghai beach, nature has blessed us with a 2.5km crescent shaped beach of soft, light sand, lined with a well-design natural wood and tropical garden boardwalk of cafes, seafood barbecue restaurants; vendors offering cheap soft drinks, beer and wine, lounge chair/umbrella rentals for 20rmb per chair, a nice Thai restaurant and even beachside body massage for well under USD $10. Facing due south, sometimes Dadonghai is as calm as a lake while also bringing us 1 - 1.5 meter waves perfect for boogey boards and surfing. Wow!...we find a little bit of everything at this beach neighborhood.

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In the summer of 2004 on my first trip to Sanya, I met the man who had also just bought an entire floor of the Rui Hai beachfront apartments across from the Intyme Resort, which he then decorated as a lovely, simple 12 room guest hotel. Check out the incredible view from the private balcony and then you'll realize why I am urging you if you are looking for this type of accommodation to book your holiday dates quickly.

I'm happy to count Yi Bin as a close friend over the years and every year its easy to believe that the 12 rooms of his simple, lovely little guest hotel book out way in advance. Yi Bin is a lucky man to own his little empire of skyrocketing beachfront real estate in Sanya and its your lucky day that we are bringing his lovely guest hotel to your attention early in the season. As you can see from the photos of the private balconies in each room, get your room before they are gone, with rates starting at only 200rmb in November and a SanyaExpat special rate we have blocked on three rooms at only 280rmb from December 20th to January 5th, minimum 3 nights.

Click Page 2 for additional photos including their 3 bedroom apartment available. Yi Bin's lovely little guest hotel is the best kept secret in Dadonghai for travelers on a budget who can still have a simple modern room with large full bathroom and a private beachfront balcony. Over the years I've put every close friend I have in a room here when they've come for a visit to Sanya. They do not accept credit cards so new guests need to pay a 30% cash deposit by bank wire transfer to confirm your reservation. This is simple to do and costs only 20-50rmb at any bank in China.

Reserve/Inquire Now Click Here

Cheers, M

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Many of us enjoy tropical beaches and Sanya is China's only true, genuine tropical beach destination. Over the past 3 years of development "Sanya" has become the catch-all word comprising the 160kilometer south/southeast coastline starting from the Kempinski Resort at Sanya Bay running up through Dadonghai, Yalong Bay and Haitang Bay to the Le Meridien Resort at the northern side of Shimei Bay. Over a period of four years since first arriving, Sanya has been good to us and many of our friends. I have gotten to know her intimately, in great detail, both personally and in terms of business and market research.

Today, I cannot encourage you to join the speculative fools playing the Chinese real estate and stock markets right now, including Sanya's property market. This is an ugly and unfortunate scene, with prices way too high, way too fast, even though it might continue a while longer. Less than 1 1/2 years ago a very knowledgeable local business owner and I sat over coffee discussing that prices in the area will most likely reach 20,000rmb per square meter "someday", probably two to three or five years later. Since then, prices have rocketed to over 30,000rmb psqm and higher. The cauldron of witches brew is boiling and buyers are stepping back.

Andy Xie, ex-Morgan Stanley China analyst in the U.S., has recently called the real estate and stock market rise in China a giant ponzi scheme. Strong words from a person we can rightfully call in the know. Please be sure to at least read his remarks further on down in this report. After exhaustively analyzing and watching both markets, I am grateful for the returns I've made and now I am getting very jittery at these heights, in full agreement with Mr. Xie.

"Looking more broadly beyond the real estate market, we can also sense there is a strong case of bias emerging from Chinese big business to subtly push foreigners out of China, as they come up with one big event excuse or another (Beijing Olympics, 60th National Day Anniversary, next the Shanghai World Expo) to severely limit visa permissions and make it harder to do business according to the recent scathing European Commission Annual Position Paper. The Chinese are perhaps starting to enjoy their little victory party as they seem to be the pied piper leading the world out of its economic crisis. America is cash broke. Europe is cash broke. Asia is flush with cash starting with China. That's the economic reality and in fact we should appreciate its importance and value." Mario Cavolo

Indeed, the global depressed economy is causing companies to cutback on expenses and one way to do that is to localize the expat management positions and send the expats packing as many companies have needed to do.

As I am the only person on planet earth who writes and publishes a reasonably accurate and detailed Sanya Real Estate Quarterly Report, that makes me the de facto investment real estate analyst of the moment whose job is to sometimes go out on a limb and call the bubble. There is always some possibility the bubble will continue for a few more years to even dizzier heights before it inevitably will burst. If so, it is I who am the fool today. If not, it is I the revered wizard analyst tomorrow. If prices are substantially higher in the next 2-3 years, that state of economic affairs will probably also reflect severe inflation and currency devaluation issues worldwide as the underlying financial crisis continues to unwind in ways we haven't seen yet. The unwinding of the crisis is far from over and we shall see.

Going into the background analysis of the property market here, I start by enabling you our valued and appreciated readers to understand this bubble very quickly by making you a genuine Sanya real estate apartment offer. Do take a moment to compare this sample Sanya real estate offer to other possible choices you have in China, and also compared to other possible countries in Southeast Asia, North America, Australia/New Zealand and the European Continent.

Go to the next page to view today's amazing ocean-view luxury apartment offer and judge the lunacy for yourself!

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