Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
American flexible working space provider WeWork on Tuesday announced that its largest shareholder, SoftBank, has committed another $3 billion to the company, boosting its valuation to at least $42 billion.
Softbank is investing in WeWork through a warrant that allows… Read More>>
Russell Street in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay outstripped Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to become the world most expensive retail street for the first time in five years, according to a survey of retail locations released this week.
Shops and mall… Read More>>
According to information from the Hong Kong stock exchange, JP Morgan Chase & Co used a flurry of share trades to build its stake in China Vanke, the third largest real estate developer in China, to 11.13 percent as of… Read More>>
Angry tenants and landlords occupied the Beijing office of Haoyuan Hengye Long Term Rental Apartment late last month to mount their own extra-legal detention of the housing company’s management.
The move against the rental housing operator was related to allegations… Read More>>
US private equity firm Warburg Pincus on Monday announced that it is investing up to $413.5 million into Weave Co-living, and has launched the partnership with a $181 million bet on the sharing economy startup.
The partnership with Weave is… Read More>>
China Vanke has agreed to purchase six real estate projects in the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, as well as in the city of Chongqing, from a subsidiary of China Evergrande Real Estate, for a total of RMB 355 million… Read More>>
To follow through on President Xi Jinping’s vow of “homes are for living, not for flipping”, China’s primary real estate regulator on Thursday announced penalties for companies which mislead customers and cheat on regulations designed to promote transparency in the… Read More>>
After selling 13 Wanda tourism cities to Sunac China less than two weeks ago, mainland real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to build a new Wanda tourism city in the northwestern China city of Lanzhou.
The… Read More>>
Financially troubled mainland conglomerate HNA continued its ongoing series of property disposals on Wednesday as it announced an agreement to sell its Central Hotel Square project in Guangzhou to China Vanke for approximately RMB 1.035 billion ($150 million) in cash,… Read More>>
China’s Bank of Communications appears to be taking advantage of a sustained slide in Hong Kong retail rents to expand its footprint in the city’s Central district at a rent less than half of what an earlier tenant paid for… Read More>>
