\nOne of Myanmar\u2019s most recognised businessmen will be honoured by Property Report at the country\u2019s biggest industry event<\/p>\n
Born in Yangon, this future mogul spent his formative years in China during the great Cultural Revolution and arrived in Hong Kong at the age of 21.
One of Myanmar\u2019s most recognised businessmen will be honoured by Property Report at the country\u2019s...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-4B4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38085,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/myanmar-property-awards-2017-is-launched-and-open-for-nominations\/","url_meta":{"origin":17674,"position":0},"title":"Myanmar Property Awards 2017 is launched and open for nominations","date":"December 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r PropertyGuru has announced the return of Myanmar\u2019s biggest gathering of real estate achievers On the panel: (L-R) Chairman of the judges Richard Emerson, managing director at Emerson Real Estate (Myanmar); Terry Blackburn, founder and managing director, Asia Property Awards; and Zaw Erskine, director at BDO, official judging supervisor After\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":112464,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/nova-scotia-beckons-with-real-estate-comprising-entire-islands-for-the-purchase-price-of-a-sai-ying-pun-flat-in-hong-kong\/","url_meta":{"origin":17674,"position":1},"title":"Nova Scotia beckons with real estate comprising entire islands for the purchase price of a Sai Ying Pun flat in Hong Kong","date":"November 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Tired of news about Hong Kong\u2019s protests, Donald Trump\u2019s presidency or persistent worries about a recession in 2020?Consider an island property in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, where property is still cheap, foreign interest is growing and taxes on real estate are still favourable to non-residents.While most people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43039,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/myanmar-real-estate-is-getting-better-and-stronger\/","url_meta":{"origin":17674,"position":2},"title":"Myanmar real estate is getting \u201cbetter and stronger\u201d","date":"February 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Slow and steady wins the race Downtown Yangon. 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\nHe started his career a salesman at a Hong Kong\u2010based real estate firm where he worked for 10 years. In 1983, he went on to establish his business conglomerate in Hong Kong, and in 1991 he return to his birth country, Myanmar, to establish one of the country\u2019s largest and leading corporations.
\nHis name is Serge Pun.
\nToday Pun is the executive chairman of the SPA Group of Companies, which currently operates 40 companies that are active in eight business sectors, including banking and financial services, automotive, agriculture and logistics, luxury travel and tourism, consumer services, aviation, healthcare, and real estate development.
\nSPA\u2019s flagship First Myanmar Investment Co Ltd one of the first public companies in Myanmar, was established in 1992. In 2006, Pun led the company\u2019s real estate arm Yoma Strategic Holdings to a successful listing on the mainboard of the Singapore Stock Exchange.
\nAs a real estate entrepreneur, one of Pun\u2019s biggest and most significant projects in Myanmar is the acclaimed Star City, which won the Best Landscape Architectural Design award plus two other Highly Commended honours at the inaugural Myanmar Property Awards 2015.
\nYoma is once again nominated for the Myanmar Property Awards 2016, this time in the Best Condo Development and Best Housing Development categories.
\nMore: Final shortlist for Myanmar Property Awards 2016 unveiled
\nOn top of the nominations for Yoma, Pun has been chosen by the editors of Property Report, Asia\u2019s leading luxury real estate, architecture and design magazine, to become the recipient of the prestigious Real Estate Personality of the Year award for his exemplary leadership and contributions to the domestic real estate sector.
\n\u201cI hope this recognition would be the emphatic for us to produce better products to serve customers in the future,\u201d Pun told Property Report. \u201cBased on the disparity of supply and demand, I think the Myanmar real estate sector will be continue to be strong in the foreseeable future.\u201d
\nThe Real Estate Personality of the Year gong\u00a0will add to Pun\u2019s mantle of honours, which includes being selected as one of the 65 outstanding Overseas Chinese Model worldwide to feature on a series of commemorative postage stamp celebrating the 65th anniversary of the People\u2019s Republic of China. Pun was also awarded an honorary Doctorate of Philosophy in Business Administration by the Southern California University in 1999.
\nA frequently invited to be a speaker in international forums on Myanmar and ASEAN, Pun is currently a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Transparency and Anti\u2010Corruption, a standing member of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference of Dalian, and a member of the Asia Business Council.
\nPun\u00a0currently resides in Yangon with his wife and four sons.
\nCelebrate Serge Pun\u2019s real estate achievements at the Myanmar Property Awards 2016, an exclusive event presented by Samsung and organised by PropertyGuru, Asia\u2019s leading online property group,\u00a0on 30 June at the Sule Shangri-la Yangon. For tickets, visit the official website or email\u00a0info@asiapropertyawards.com.
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\nSource : property-report.com
\nRead more…The story of Serge Pun: Myanmar\u2019s 2016 Real Estate Personality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"