Asia real estate and outbound investment news
With its erstwhile owner ensconced in at Manhattan penthouse hurling insults at China’s ruling communist party, a Beijing office tower was sold for RMB 5.2 billion ($730 million) this week on a bad asset website operated by Alibaba’s Taobao.
Yu… Read More>>
Guangzhou-based Poly Developments and Holdings has agreed to pay RMB 2.5 billion ($355 million) for a combined residential and commercial site in Shanghai at a government auction, according to an announcement by the Shanghai Land Exchange.
The state-owned developer won… Read More>>
Beijing-based China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) announced that it has agreed to sell a Beijing commercial project to Ping An Insurance for a consideration of RMB 5.829 billion ($830 million) as the developer shifts toward an asset light approach in… Read More>>
Despite daily protests that have brought real estate activity to new lows in Hong Kong, co-working operator WeWork has continued to take up more space in the world’s most expensive office market.
The New York-based shared space specialist is said… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Lands Department announced on August 12 that Far East Consortium International won a tender for the smallest plot of commercial land at Hong Kong’s former Kai Tak airport at a price of HK$2.45 billion ($312 million).
The local… Read More>>
Sales for China’s top 100 developers fell 29 percent for the first seven months of 2019, as the government has continued a year-long clampdown on the housing market, and that trend could be set to continue, as the country’s top… Read More>>
A joint venture between Sun Hung Kai Properties and Ping An Insurance has won a land parcel in Hangzhou for RMB 13.26 billion ($1.88 billion), earning the right to develop 857,700 square metres (9.23 million square feet) of commercial and… Read More>>
Mainland rental housing operator Lejia ended weeks of speculation by announcing through the company’s official WeChat account this past week that it has “ceased operation, closed down all business, and let go of most of its staff.”
Three-year-old Lejia, which… Read More>>
Despite growing uncertainty over the US-China trade war and increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, a real estate developer controlled by one of the city’s wealthiest families has been actively buying and selling assets.
Hanison Construction Holdings said in a… Read More>>
One more global retail giant has retreated from the mainland China market in the face of growing local competition as a unit of Nanjing-based Suning announced this week that it has taken over a chain of convenience stores from Hong… Read More>>
