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Featured Stories
Greystar Returns to MTD TV to Lead Off Mingtiandi APAC Residential Forum 2024
MTD TV kicks off its 2024 programming slate next Tuesday with a spotlight interview featuring Greystar’s Adam Pillay, … Read More>>
Sponsored Features
Australian Industrial Sector a Top Target for Global Investors in 2024: Cushman & Wakefield
Some 89 percent of global property investors intend to deploy capital into Australian industrial properties in 2024, … Read More>>
Colliers 2024 Global Investor Outlook: Asia Pacific Highlights
Investment activity is expected to increase across Asia Pacific in 2024, led by a stabilising policy environment, … Read More>>
Breaking News
Mitsubishi Estate Breaks Ground on $1.3B Entertainment City in Central Tokyo
Mitsubishi Estate and Tokyo Broadcasting System have broken ground on an entertainment industry hub in central Tokyo that will span 205,800 square metres (2.2 million square feet) including office, … Read more>>
Link REIT, Warburg Pincus, Ben Cha to Headline Mingtiandi Hong Kong Forum in May
Having welcomed nearly 200 industry professionals at our inaugural Hong Kong Forum in 2023, Mingtiandi returns in 2024 to once again bring together top experts for a full day exploration of the … Read more>>
Rebound in Cross-Border Education Attracting Capital to Aussie Student Housing
International students in Australia have surpassed their pre-COVID numbers, delivering a boost to purpose-built student housing and driving a reallocation of capital into the sector, according to … Read more>>
China Home Price Slump Defies State Support and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Despite government support for the housing market, China’s home prices continued their decline in February, with that story leading Mingtiandi’s headline roundup today. Also making the list, … Read more>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2024-03-18
The world’s largest pension fund manager leads this week’s round of personnel moves from around Asia’s real estate industry, with Japan GPIF said to be ready to hand an extension to its CIO. Top level … Read more>>
Singapore’s Far East Orchard Ups UK Student Housing Bet With $50M Glasgow Project
Far East Orchard is expanding its portfolio of UK purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio into Scotland with a £38.9 million ($50 million) development joint venture in Glasgow. Far … Read more>>
Weave Living, BlackRock to Unpack Rental Residential Partnership on MTD TV
Mingtiandi’s APAC Residential Forum 2024 this week offers a closer look at the tie-up between regional multi-family platform Weave Living and the world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock. For … Read more>>
Singapore February Home Sales Down 66% Amid Project Vacuum
New private home sales in Singapore fell 65.6 percent year-on-year in February in the absence of new projects, according to data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Friday. The monthly … Read more>>
Real Estate Finance
Stonepeak Beats Target With $3.3B Final Closing of Maiden Asia Infrastructure Fund
US private equity firm Stonepeak has reached a final closing of its first Asia infrastructure fund with capital … Read More>>
SF REIT Revenue Growth Not Enough to Overcome Fair Value Shift
SF REIT reported a 50 percent decline in net profit in 2023 despite positive revenue growth, as the industrial trust … Read More>>
Swire Properties Profit Plunges 67% on Markdowns Despite Retail Rebound
Swire Properties reported an attributable net profit of HK$2.6 billion in 2023, marking a 67 percent decline from a year … Read More>>
Singapore
Singapore February Home Sales Down 66% Amid Project Vacuum
New private home sales in Singapore fell 65.6 percent year-on-year in February in the absence of new projects, according … Read More>>
Luxury Site in Singapore’s River Valley Tipped to Sell at a Discount Amid Housing Slump
The dark clouds hovering over Singapore’s luxury housing market have yet to clear off with analysts predicting that a … Read More>>
Robert Kuok’s Allgreen Completes $410M Purchase of Singapore’s Seletar Mall
Robert Kuok’s Allgreen Properties has completed its S$550 million ($410 million) purchase of the Seletar Mall in … Read More>>
Shanghai
Link REIT Buying Remaining 50% of Shanghai Mall from Vanke for $335M
One of Asia’s biggest retail landlords has been doing some pre-New Year shopping in China’s discounted property market, … Read More>>
LaSalle IM Adds to Shanghai Multi-Family Portfolio with Pair of Yangpu Projects
LaSalle Investment Management is set to launch a pair of long-term rental apartment projects in Shanghai under its newly … Read More>>
BlackRock Marketing Shanghai Office Complex at 30% Off as Vacancy Hits 20-Year High
BlackRock is shopping a pair of Shanghai office buildings at a 30 percent discount to what they paid to acquire the … Read More>>
Projects
Mitsubishi Estate Breaks Ground on $1.3B Entertainment City in Central Tokyo
Mitsubishi Estate and Tokyo Broadcasting System have broken ground on an entertainment industry hub in central Tokyo … Read More>>
Swire Denies Attempting to Sell Miami Project as Market Slides
Ten months after starting to clear the site for an office development which is planned to be Miami’s tallest skyscraper … Read More>>
ARA Veteran Moses Song Aims for More Value-Add Deals in JV with Japan’s Kenedix, SMFL
With ARA Asset Management’s private funds division soon to be carved out from ESR into an independent company, the head … Read More>>
Asia Outbound
Singapore’s Far East Orchard Ups UK Student Housing Bet With $50M Glasgow Project
Far East Orchard is expanding its portfolio of UK purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio into Scotland … Read More>>
Angelo Gordon-EQ JV Sells Paris Hotel to Korea’s Sono International for $130M
Springtime in Paris may be a few weeks away, but hospitality deals continue to bloom as South Korea’s Sono International … Read More>>
Data Centres
China’s GDS Confirms Talks to Raise Cash for International Data Centre Expansion
Three years after announcing plans to expand beyond its home market of mainland China, data centre developer and … Read More>>
APAC Data Centre Operating Capacity Tops 10GW
The operational capacity of Asia Pacific data centres passed the 10-gigawatt mark in the second half of 2023 as regional … Read More>>
Keppel Teams With Mitsui Fudosan on Data Centre Opportunities, Eyes First Japan Project
Singapore’s Keppel Ltd has signed a tentative deal with Japanese real estate giant Mitsui Fudosan to explore data centre … Read More>>
Japan
Mitsubishi Estate Breaks Ground on $1.3B Entertainment City in Central Tokyo
Mitsubishi Estate and Tokyo Broadcasting System have broken ground on an entertainment industry hub in central Tokyo … Read More>>
Keppel Teams With Mitsui Fudosan on Data Centre Opportunities, Eyes First Japan Project
Singapore’s Keppel Ltd has signed a tentative deal with Japanese real estate giant Mitsui Fudosan to explore data centre … Read More>>
Panel: Multi-Family Investment in Japan
With over 22 percent of households already renting their homes and 49 percent of respondents in a CBRE investor … Read More>>
Hong Kong
Link REIT, Warburg Pincus, Ben Cha to Headline Mingtiandi Hong Kong Forum in May
Having welcomed nearly 200 industry professionals at our inaugural Hong Kong Forum in 2023, Mingtiandi returns in 2024 … Read More>>
Hong Kong’s MTR Sees Profit Drop 21% to $1B on Development Income Collapse
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation reported a 20.8 percent drop in attributable profit to HK$7.8 billion ($1 billion) for 2023 … Read More>>
Hongkong Land Swings to $582M Loss as Markdowns Bruise Central Portfolio
Regional developer Hongkong Land reported an attributable loss of $582 million for 2023, reversing a year-earlier profit … Read More>>
MTD TV
Weave Living, BlackRock to Unpack Rental Residential Partnership on MTD TV
Mingtiandi’s APAC Residential Forum 2024 this week offers a closer look at the tie-up between regional multi-family … Read More>>
Greystar Returns to MTD TV to Lead Off Mingtiandi APAC Residential Forum 2024
MTD TV kicks off its 2024 programming slate next Tuesday with a spotlight interview featuring Greystar’s Adam Pillay, … Read More>>
LaSalle, Savills, CPE Funds to Explore China Rental Residential Boom on MTD TV
With global investors committing more cash to rental housing projects in mainland China, viewers of Mingtiandi’s … Read More>>
Research & Policy
Rebound in Cross-Border Education Attracting Capital to Aussie Student Housing
International students in Australia have surpassed their pre-COVID numbers, delivering a boost to purpose-built student … Read More>>
Singapore February Home Sales Down 66% Amid Project Vacuum
New private home sales in Singapore fell 65.6 percent year-on-year in February in the absence of new projects, according … Read More>>