Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Gaw Capital Partners announced today that the private equity firm, through a fund under its management and in league with partners including British Columbia’s QuadReal Property Group, have acquired the Ocean Towers office building in Shanghai.
The consortium purchased the… Read More>>
Construction firm Mace has appointed former Barclays executive Nick Brand to run a new office dedicated to the Asia Pacific region that the company is opening in Singapore, according to a statement this week from the UK-based project management specialist.
The last working day in November sees one of Asia’s biggest homegrown private equity firms falling short in its bid to takeover a Hong Kong-listed REIT, while project owners in Singapore may be showing more confidence in the market as… Read More>>
CBRE announced today that it has appointed Alan Li as president of CBRE China, promoting the head of its investment services division to the top spot with the agency’s mainland team.
Stepping immediately into his new role as the company’s… Read More>>
Predictions of post-Brexit chaos for the the UK seem not to have made their way to Asia yet, as a Korean asset manager has now agreed to buy a London office building from Blackstone for more than a quarter-billion pounds…. Read More>>
BlackRock announced on Monday that it had appointed Geraldine Buckingham as chair and head of BlackRock Asia Pacific, effective in February 2019.
The appointment will see Buckingham, who currently serves as the asset management giant’s global head of corporate strategy,… Read More>>
Chris Brooke was inaugurated as president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) at a ceremony in Hong Kong today, officially taking the helm of the property industry professional group.
A fellow of the RICS and former CBRE executive,… Read More>>
London gets most of the attention from Asian investors but leading today’s set of real estate headlines from around Asia is a Singapore private equity firm betting $360 million on commercial properties in the UK’s small towns. Also, theme parks… Read More>>
Link Asset Management Limited, the manager of Hong Kong’s Link Real Estate Investment Trust, announced today its acquisition of Beijing Jingtong Roosevelt Plaza, a recently completed shopping centre in Beijing’s suburban Tongzhou district for RMB 2.56 billion ($369 million).
The… Read More>>
Top level personnel changes at mainland developers continue to lead the people news in the industry, as some of China’s biggest homebuilders reshuffle their top positions during the current slowdown. Developer Landsea Group’s reshuffling of their executive suite leads today’s… Read More>>
