Editorial policy
APACrealty reports from public sources and official datasets. This page sets out what that means in practice: what we will cover, the standards a story is held to, and how figures are checked before they reach a page.
Scope
We publish property and real estate news from across the Asia-Pacific. A candidate story has to be about property and it has to be about this region; a story that is one but not the other is not published here, and that test is applied before we spend anything on it.
We do not run general news, business news unrelated to property, crime, sport, entertainment, health or lifestyle coverage, even when a property address appears in the story.
Standards every story is held to
Every story is written from the source material to the standards below. They are part of this policy rather than a matter of house preference, and they bind every story we publish:
- Write only from the material supplied. Never introduce a figure, date, quotation, name or allegation that is not in the source.
- Preserve every figure exactly as given — price, price psf, price per plot ratio, site area, gross floor area, tenure, unit count, yield, occupancy. Do not round or rescale them, and do not silently convert between square metres and square feet.
- Always state the currency and its market. A bare dollar sign in a region with four of them is an error.
- Remain neutral. No forecast that the source does not itself attribute, no view on whether a price is good value, and no advice to buyers, sellers, landlords or investors.
- Do not speculate about causes. A transaction record contains transactions, not reasons.
Figures in our own data reports
The Market Data reports are produced differently from the rest of the site, and the difference matters.
Every statistic in them — medians, month-on-month changes, per-town and per-flat-type breakdowns, counts and shares — is computed across the complete dataset for the period, never from a sample and never carried over from someone else's summary of it.
Before publication every monetary figure in a report is checked back against those computed values. If a figure appears that we cannot reproduce from the data, the report is not published. This is deliberately a hard stop rather than a warning: a wrong median is indistinguishable from a right one to a reader, and the value of these reports rests entirely on that not happening.
Each report names the dataset, the publishing agency and the period covered, and links the licence the data is used under, so any figure can be traced back to the public source.
Attribution
Our article pages are canonical to themselves. We do not claim another outlet's page as the authoritative version of our own, or the reverse.
Material written from a press release says so, and is not presented as independent reporting. Our own work is marked with an outlined tag and names the desk that produced it.
Images
Photographs are credited where they come from a source that requires it, with the licence named. Where an image is reproduced from a press release it is credited to the issuer. We do not strip attribution from an image to make a page tidier.
Corrections and complaints
Errors are corrected promptly and visibly; see the corrections policy. If you believe a story is inaccurate, unfair, or should not have been published, write to [email protected] and tell us which article and what is wrong with it.
What we are not
Nothing on this site is investment advice, property advice, a valuation, or a recommendation to buy, sell or lease anything. Figures are reported as published and may be revised by the agency that published them. Anyone acting on a number should check it against the primary source, which we name precisely so that is possible.