Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Athletic apparel brand Nike has stepped in where Hong Kong’s own Esprit faltered, leasing a 7,000 square foot (650 square metre) shop in Causeway Bay’s Leighton Centre for a reported monthly rent of HK$1.5 million.
The swoosh logo will soon… Read More>>
China’s largest property developer by sales is reportedly retreating from an expansion program that aimed to give it a presence across the nation’s third, fourth and fifth-tier cities in the face of tightening credit conditions and an ongoing government crackdown… Read More>>
The authorities in Beijing have come up with yet another move to cool down the real estate ardor of their 1.4 million constituents, as the housing said it will limit loans for resettlement payments. Also in the news, China’s CIC… Read More>>
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has struck yet another deal with its favorite mainland developer, Longfor Group Holdings, as the Canadian pension fund manager and the Beijing-based builder today announced an agreement to jointly invest at least $817 million in… Read More>>
Since the end of June China has moved to clamp down further on housing speculation as the government shows its determination to enforce President Xi Jinping’s vow at last year’s party congress that, “homes are for living, not for flipping.”
India may be the hottest market for some international real estate investors this year, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who enters the market will win, as US financial giant JP Morgan decides to give up and go home after… Read More>>
Credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service this week has downgraded its outlook for Hong Kong-listed developer Wuzhou International Holdings Limited as it predicted that the Jiangsu-based industrial specialist would default on $300 million in offshore bonds.
The downgrade comes after… Read More>>
Co-working operator JustCo this month achieved the latest milestone in its Southeast Asia expansion, after a Bangkok-based unit of Singapore-listed Frasers Property announced the formal creation of a joint venture with the Singaporean flexible office provider.
Thailand-listed Ticon Industrial Connection… Read More>>
At the top of today’s news, facilitators of Malaysia’s multi-billion dollar 1MDB graft bonanza continue to rethink their risk assessments with a former Goldman Sachs partner now trying to strike a deal with US prosecutors on charges of criminal activity…. Read More>>
Singaporean property developer City Developments Ltd is joining mainland tech giant Alibaba as investors taking cornerstone stakes in the initial public offering of E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Ltd, a Shanghai-based real estate services provider with more than RMB 4.6 billion… Read More>>
