Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Singapore’s Mapletree Industrial Trust is set to add to its collection of US data centres after entering an agreement to acquire 29 facilities across 18 states for $1.3 billion.
The assets represent the entirety of the data centre portfolio of… Read More>>
Blue-chip developer Hongkong Land announced Thursday that chief financial officer Simon Dixon is stepping down from his role at the end of August to return to Australia.
Dixon will be succeeded by Craig Beattie, currently chief financial officer of hotel… Read More>>
Shenzhen leapt into the top five APAC metro areas for commercial real estate sales in 2020’s first quarter as China overtook Japan to emerge as the region’s biggest market during the COVID-19 era, according to research by Real Capital Analytics.
Knight Frank has appointed veteran broker Antonio Wu to the newly created role of head of capital markets for Greater China, effective immediately.
Wu joins Knight Frank from Colliers International, where he spent 21 years and held the title of… Read More>>
Hines on Tuesday announced the development of Namyang Logistics Center in South Korea, marking the US real estate firm’s second cold storage project in Asia Pacific in the last six months.
The five-storey logistics centre in Hwaseong, a Greater Seoul… Read More>>
Japan has been Asia’s top target for institutions shopping for rental residential assets, with much of the country’s appeal owing to… Read More>>
ARA Asset Management has moved a step closer to a public listing, with the Singapore-based real estate fund manager announcing today that it is raising $500 million in a financing round led by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) which… Read More>>
Tang Shing-bor, a property tycoon whose sprawling portfolio of retail assets brought him fame as the “Shop King” of Hong Kong, has died at age 88.
According to a statement released by his family, Tang died peacefully in Hong Kong… Read More>>
Singapore-based ARA Asset Management announced Friday that it had increased its equity stake in Japanese fund manager Kenedix to 30 percent, up from 20.27 percent previously.
ARA had earlier supported the privatisation and buyout of Kenedix by Sumitomo Mitsui Finance… Read More>>
GLP-backed ACR Asset Management on Thursday revealed its acquisition of the Beijing Diamond Plaza building in the Chinese capital’s primary technology hub.
Founded by Edward Cheung, the former chief executive for Greater China at Cushman & Wakefield, newcomer ACR bought… Read More>>
