Mainland muscle is flexing yet again in Hong Kong’s land market, as China Overseas Land & Investment on Wednesday beat out nine rivals, including eight of the city’s top local builders, to snag a waterfront residential plot in the Kai… Read More>>
Savills IM Teams With Vestas on $604M European Logistics Fund
Savills Investment Management this week announced the launch of a pan-European logistics investment fund with partner Vestas Investment Management, targeting a gross asset value of up to €500 million ($604 million).
In a Monday press release, Savills IM described Vestas… Read More>>
CapitaLand Sells Japan Malls, Seoul Office for $335M, Unveils Logistics JV With Mitsui
CapitaLand’s shift to a strategy aligned with an increasingly digital economy continues, with the Singaporean developer on Tuesday announcing the divestment of three Japanese malls and a Korean office tower for a combined S$448.7 million ($335 million), and the acquisition… Read More>>
Singapore’s CDL Predicts 2020 Loss, Further Hotel Woes Next Year
In full-year guidance released Monday, City Developments Ltd said it expected the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue into 2021 as the Singaporean developer predicted a loss for 2020.
CDL foresees its global hospitality segment, led by wholly owned… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2020-11-30
In this week’s edition of People in the News, a boardroom succession takes shape at Hong Kong multinational HKRI, the third generation at New World Development gains a seat on the HSBC board, and WeWork in Singapore announces a pair… Read More>>
Mapletree Snaps Up Site for $411M Southern Japan Logistics Project
Mapletree Investments continues its drive to add more warehouse space to Japan’s logistics market, announcing this week that it acquired a 116,319 square metre (1,252,047 square foot) site near the city of Fukuoka for development into two blocks of four-storey… Read More>>
Singapore’s CDL Appoints Hospitality Veteran, Aberdeen Alum to Board
Fresh off its announcement last week of a plan to streamline its loss-making hotel division, City Developments Ltd has named two new directors to the CDL board, including an old Asia hand with nearly five decades of hospitality experience.
The… Read More>>
Evergrande Services Unit Kicks Off Downsized $2B Hong Kong IPO
Evergrande Property Services Group Ltd has announced the details of its proposed listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange, with the public offering to take place from Monday to Thursday this week.
The company, a property management services spin-off of… Read More>>
CIC Nabs Half of Sydney’s Grosvenor Place Office Tower for $674M
Things are heating up as the Australian summer approaches, with China’s sovereign wealth fund paying A$925 million ($674 million) to purchase a 50 percent stake in Sydney’s Grosvenor Place office tower in 2020’s biggest commercial property deal Down Under.
The… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2020-11-23
In this week’s edition of People in the News, a stalwart of the region-wide Guoco investment group retires after 40 years of service, while the next generation rises at mainland Chinese property management firm Kaisa Prosperity Holdings. In other moves,… Read More>>