Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China Oceanwide Holdings has failed to sell its halted $1.6 billion San Francisco mega-project for the third time, in another blow to the cash-strapped developer after the troubled site was seized by creditors last year.
In a filing to the… Read More>>
GLP’s Japan-focused REIT has sold a fully occupied warehouse northwest of Tokyo at a price 25 percent higher than the asset’s appraised value, as investors seeking stable cash flow and low-risk returns continue to bet on Japan’s logistics sector.
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US private equity giant KKR is strengthening its presence in the Japanese real estate scene with the purchase of a portfolio of newly built apartments in Tokyo, adding to a recent flurry of deals in the country’s rental residential market.
US private equity giant The Carlyle Group has taken a bet on China’s growing rental housing sector by investing in Shanghai-based corporate housing operator Anxin Apartment. Carlyle announced that it had acquired a “significant minority stake” in the mainland firm,… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway system has nearly doubled in capacity over the last twenty years, helping to make developer CK Asset’s Ocean Pride project – which connects directly to the Tsuen Wan West MTR station in the New Territories… Read More>>
Finance industry journal Euromoney named Cushman & Wakefield the top China real estate agency in 2018, as the global property consultancy leveraged a surging investment market for mainland properties to scoop up the top slot for the second consecutive year.
Buildings are heavy, and sometimes the weight of all that steel and concrete is too much to bear. A sinking floor, cracking wall or misaligned racking can bring a business to a halt while the facility is stabilised. Traditional fixes… Read More>>
Global design firm Benoy has created some of China’s most distinctive architectural landmarks since the UK-based studio first opened its doors in Shanghai in 2008. Today, as the firm celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its first office in mainland China,… Read More>>
Global Logistic Properties (GLP) has closed a pair of Europe-focussed funds totalling $4 billion, following the $50 billion warehouse giant’s first foray into the continent last year.
The Singapore-based firm set up the funds, GLP Europe Income Partners I (GLP… Read More>>
Cash-strapped HNA Group is said to be in talks to sell a Manhattan office building for $452 million — taking a haircut on its remaining New York real estate asset — after the US government reportedly ordered the Chinese firm… Read More>>
