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R&F Buys 77 Wanda Hotels for $2.9B in Game of China’s Biggest Debtors
China's biggest-ever property deal has taken another twist, with Guangzhou's R&F Properties suddenly stepping in to … Read More>>
Sponsored Features
Hong Kong and Australia Lead APAC Hotel Deals in First Half of 2017
Hong Kong hosted three hotel purchases of over US$100 million in the first three months of 2017, and, as if not to be … Read More>>
JLL Sees Competitive Advantage in its Cutting Edge Shanghai Office
Workplace strategy has become a major new area of professional services in the last decade as companies from established … Read More>>
Breaking News
Blackstone Said Planning $3B Asia Buyout Fund
US private equity giant Blackstone is reportedly planning to ramp up its presence in Asia by raising up to $3 billion for its first buyout fund focused on the region. According to sources cited by Reuters, Blackstone Group LP has… Read More>>
HK Giant Henderson Land Hires Andrew Fung Hau Chung as CFO
Fresh off of buying Hong Kong’s most expensive piece of land ever, Henderson Land Development is adding a senior banking executive to its leadership team by hiring Andrew Fung Hau Chung as Chief Financial Officer.
Fung will be joining the… Read More>>
BAML Halts Work on HNA Deals Over Debt Levels and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Mainland Chinese debt continues to dominate the headlines today as an American banking giant backs away from deals with China’s HNA over leverage concerns. Also in the news, Hong Kong’s General Post Office will be making way for more pricey… Read More>>
R&F Buys 77 Wanda Hotels for $2.9B in Game of China’s Biggest Debtors
China’s biggest-ever property deal has taken another twist, with Guangzhou’s R&F Properties suddenly stepping in to acquire 77 hotels from Dalian Wanda Group for RMB 19.9 billion ($2.9 billion).
The acquisition is the latest twist on a sale of Wanda’s… Read More>>
Chinese Top Foreign Homebuyers in US for 4th Straight Year
The Chinese appetite for American housing is sharper than ever, with Chinese topping the list of foreign homebuyers in the US for the fourth year in a row.
According to a recent survey of American realtors, people from mainland China,… Read More>>
Country Garden Sells $600M in Offshore Bonds and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
At the top of today’s real estate news is debt, and how China’s government is giving the country’s developers access to bond financing after an extended shutdown. Also in the news, Wanda’s US cinema subsidiary declares its financial independence from… Read More>>
naked Hub, JustGroup Merge to Create Asian Co-Working Powerhouse
naked Hub, the Chinese flexible office provider, is joining forces with Singapore’s JustGroup to create Asia’s leading operator of high-end co-working space and compete with US giant WeWork, the companies announced Tuesday.
The merger of the two shared office players… Read More>>
Chinese Estates Buys $1B Stake in Mainland Development Giant Evergrande
Hong Kong developer Chinese Estates Holdings has deepened its longstanding ties with China Evergrande, revealing it has acquired a five percent stake in the mainland’s largest homebuilder since April for a total price of HK$8.1 billion ($1.04 billion).
The news… Read More>>
Real Estate Finance
Blackstone Said Planning $3B Asia Buyout Fund
US private equity giant Blackstone is reportedly planning to ramp up its presence in Asia by raising up to $3 billion for its first buyout fund … Read More>>
R&F Buys 77 Wanda Hotels for $2.9B in Game of China’s Biggest Debtors
China's biggest-ever property deal has taken another twist, with Guangzhou's R&F Properties suddenly stepping in to acquire 77 hotels from Dalian … Read More>>
naked Hub, JustGroup Merge to Create Asian Co-Working Powerhouse
naked Hub, the Chinese flexible office provider, is joining forces with Singapore's JustGroup to create Asia's leading operator of high-end co-working … Read More>>
Shanghai
Understanding China’s Crackdown on Commercial-Titled Housing
Faced with skyrocketing housing prices in 2016, during the first half of this year, China implemented a fresh round of … Read More>>
AEW Reveals $226M Deal for CapitaLand’s Shanghai Office Tower
AEW Capital Management has been revealed as the buyer behind a recent $226 million (RMB 1.5 billion) deal for Shanghai's … Read More>>
Keppel and Alpha Lead $525M Purchase of SOHO Hongkou in Shanghai
SOHO China is selling a mixed-use project in Shanghai to a joint venture led by Singapore's Keppel Land China and Alpha … Read More>>
Projects
Naked Hub Unveils First Hong Kong Co-Working Centre in Sheung Wan
naked Hub, the Shanghai-based co-working startup, has just landed in Hong Kong, unveiling its first centre outside the mainland in the city's Sheung … Read More>>
CapitaLand, CCT and Mitsubishi Team Up for $1.3B Singapore Tower
Property giant CapitaLand is teaming up with a Japanese partner and its own REIT affiliate to build a new S$1.82 billion ($1.32 billion) mixed-use … Read More>>
URWork To Land in Fosun’s 28 Liberty in Manhattan
China's URWork has joined forces with an American flexible office provider to open its first US location in downtown Manhattan, as the battle for … Read More>>
Retail
Parkson Down to Last Beijing Location as Department Stores Disappear
Malaysia-based Parkson was a pioneer foreign investor in China's retail scene, opening its first mainland department store in 1994. Now that location, … Read More>>
Blackstone Goes Shopping in Singapore for $651M Japanese Retail REIT
The world's largest alternative investment firm headed to Singapore's stock exchange this week and on its shopping list was a portfolio of 11 Japanese … Read More>>
Coming Out Party for Shenzhen Mall is Latest Step in Vanke Retail Expansion
China Vanke may have lost its founder and CEO last week, but the country's second-largest developer by sales is also flexing its muscles in the retail … Read More>>
Asia Outbound
Chinese Top Foreign Homebuyers in US for 4th Straight Year
The Chinese appetite for American housing is sharper than ever, with Chinese topping the list of foreign homebuyers in the US for the fourth year in a … Read More>>
US Tops the List as Half of Chinese Millionaires Look Overseas
The Chinese government's tightening grip on cross-border capital flows isn't stopping many of the nation's high net worth individuals (HNWIs) from … Read More>>
China Says Wanda’s Cross-Border Entertainment Deals Violate Capital Controls
Dalian Wanda Group was once the standard-bearer for Chinese companies investing overseas as the mall builder headed by Wang Jianlin bought up … Read More>>
Hong Kong
Naked Hub Unveils First Hong Kong Co-Working Centre in Sheung Wan
naked Hub, the Shanghai-based co-working startup, has just landed in Hong Kong, unveiling its first centre outside the … Read More>>
Champion REIT Looks to Sell Langham Place Office Tower as HK Market Surges
Champion REIT, a listed trust sponsored by Hong Kong developer Great Eagle, is testing buyer interest in the HK$8.5 … Read More>>
China Resources Land Buys Hong Kong Central Site for $141M
The Hong Kong buying binge by mainland developers continues unabated as China Resources Land (CR Land) beat out the Gaw … Read More>>
Research & Policy
Sunac is Latest Govt Target After $9.3B Wanda Deal
Sunac China has become the latest deal-hungry conglomerate to draw scrutiny from China's regulators, with domestic banks reviewing the Tianjin-based … Read More>>
Understanding China’s Crackdown on Commercial-Titled Housing
Faced with skyrocketing housing prices in 2016, during the first half of this year, China implemented a fresh round of measures aimed at suppressing … Read More>>
Shanghai Home Sales Cut in Half in 2017 as Govt Seeks Good News on Affordability
After home prices jumped by as much as 76 percent in China's first tier cities from the beginning of 2015 through the end of last year, the country's … Read More>>
Design & Construction
Benoy’s Parc Central in Guangzhou Wins Gold at ICSC China Awards
Hong Kong Developer Sun Hung Kai only opened its Parc Central shopping centre in Guangzhou last year, but the 83,000 square metre (900,000 square … Read More>>
Ping An Finance Center Now China’s Second Tallest
Ping An Finance Center, a 599-metre (1965-foot) skyscraper in Shenzhen is now officially China’s second tallest building. The Kohn Pedersen … Read More>>
Google and NASA Team Up to Bring You 30 Years of Chinese Development in 30 Seconds
China’s development over the past 30 years has been one of the world’s biggest success stories, but has also been a series of changes that have been … Read More>>
