Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Shanghai’s fast-growing co-working scene got a touch of celebrity today when WeWork founders Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey visited the city to officially launch the office-sharing company’s China flagship location.
The co-founders of the $16 billion startup presided over a… Read More>>
The management and major shareholders of ARA Asset Management are joining with US private equity giant Warburg Pincus and China’s AVIC Trust in a bid to privatise the Singapore-listed investment manager, according to a statement today to the Singapore stock… Read More>>
The region’s real estate investors are bracing for news of the latest $1 billion deal as reports spread of ARA Asset Management CEO John Lim leading a buyout of the Singapore-listed firm.
ARA, which counts Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing… Read More>>
Buy a run-down hotel, fix it up for offices, lease to a co-working superbrand, and double your money by flipping the whole package to another fund. That simple recipe just helped Warburg Pincus-invested Kailong bring in a sum reported to… Read More>>
Shanghai-based co-working startup naked Hub has closed a $33 million funding round led by Hong Kong’s Gaw Capital to build on its China-based vision of a shared office future, according to statements by Gaw Capital and naked Hub executives.
With… Read More>>
How hot is Hong Kong’s property market? So hot that even Swire Properties is selling major commercial projects.
The real estate wing of the 200-year-old Hong Kong conglomerate is known for its “buy and hold” approach to the market. On… Read More>>
Companies controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing have sold the Century Link commercial complex in Shanghai’s Pudong district for RMB 20 billion ($2.96 billion) according to statements to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The transaction sets a 2016 high-water… Read More>>
Blackstone’s Jonathan Gray doesn’t speak much Mandarin, but he seems to know the right words for reaching Chinese investors, after the global head of real estate for the alternative investment giant agreed to sell a roughly 25 percent stake in… Read More>>
The headlines are full of stories of the Chinese government clamping down on credit to the real estate industry today, including comments from a top banking regulator saying that property loans are not a big issue. In other news, Hong… Read More>>
A trio of Shanghai-based private equity investors have taken a majority stake in a 61 unit Manhattan condo development, as Chinese capital continues to find its way into the New York luxury residential market.
GEMA Capital Partners, with backing from… Read More>>
