Interesting strategy by the company to do a revaluation of the property & take a heavy impairment loss. But why? it seems like they are going to pledge it to the bank to get good financing facility for the business. This is actually great because it kills 2 birds with 1 stone. The moment the property market recover, not only the company can use the cash provided by the bank, they will a) incur lesser interest to the bank and can b) reverse the impairment to reflect a better balance sheet @ as a gain in the income statement. Indeed @ Sun Tzu's Art of War Tactic.