Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Global real estate consultancy JLL has teamed up with Australian developer Lendlease to launch Propell Asia, a Singapore-based startup accelerator designed to foster innovative technologies in the Asia Pacific property sector.
The proptech accelerator will select five early stage startups… Read More>>
Wanda Group is planning to consolidate its Chinese film assets, in the latest move by billionaire tycoon Wang Jianlin to reshuffle his property-and-entertainment empire.
Shenzhen-listed Wanda Film Holding, the group’s movie theatre developer, announced in a notice to the stock… Read More>>
The Asian Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV) has announced a flurry of changes to its management board, with leaders from some of the world’s biggest investors taking new seats at the non-profit.
ANREV has appointed James… Read More>>
Asian logistics developer ESR has picked up more funding on its path to a planned IPO, announcing it has closed an investment from a private equity fund of CLSA, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned investment bank CITIC.
The funding from… Read More>>
Leading today’s people moves, a top CBRE exec has added “Regional” to his job title as the property brokerage tweaks its leadership structure in the southern swath of Greater China. And a China-based executive at Singapore’s Perennial has taken on… Read More>>
A Chinese government-controlled fund now owns New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, as mainland regulators have officially nationalised the hotel’s purchaser, Anbang Insurance Group.
Nearly full ownership of Anbang has been transferred to the government-controlled China Insurance Security Fund, the China… Read More>>
Philip Levinson will be stepping down as CEO of Cromwell EREIT Management, less than a year after taking the helm at the manager of Singapore-listed Cromwell European Real Estate Investment Trust.
The REIT manager announced that Levinson will resign on… Read More>>
Global property brokerage Colliers International is beefing up its valuation and project management capabilities in Japan with a pair of senior hires. The Toronto-headquartered firm has appointed Masahiro Fuse to lead its Valuation & Advisory Services team in Japan, while… Read More>>
Singapore-listed Ascendas Hospitality Trust has struck a deal to buy three newly built hotels in Osaka for a total price of about 11.24 billion yen ($101.6 million), amid a surge of overseas tourist arrivals in Japan’s third-largest city.
The acquisition… Read More>>
Leading today’s roundup, Google is ramping up its retail investments in China as it aims to counter internet behemoth Alibaba, by ploughing over half a billion dollars into e-commerce titan JD.com. Also in the headlines, China’s home prices and property… Read More>>
