Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district is the center of the banking and finance business in China’s commercial capital, as well as being home to three of the country’s tallest towers.
While the skyline is dominated by the 88-storey Jinmao Tower, the… Read More>>
After months of speculating whether Blackstone Group, Gaw Capital or a Chinese sovereign wealth fund would buy up the assets of Ascendas’ $1 billion hotel REIT, the Singapore-based real estate trust announced this week that no deal would be forthcoming…. Read More>>
WeWork, the Manhattan-based office sharing startup is expanding into Asia with its first location currently preparing to open in Shanghai’s Jing An District.
Recently valued at $16 billion, the leader of the co-working phenomena is now busy implementing the first… Read More>>
Global Logistic Properties (GLP) announced this week that it has leased another 98,000 square metres (1.1 million square feet) of modern logistics facilities in China, as the world’s biggest developer of warehouse space continues to dominate the mainland market.
The… Read More>>
After taking a few days off from its acquisition drive, Anbang is back in deal-making mode this week buying a loss-making Korean insurer for a reported $260 million. Meanwhile Greenland Group becomes the first foreign developer to employ a non-local… Read More>>
US private equity giant Blackstone Group is exiting its investment in Tysan Holdings by selling its stake in the Hong Kong property developer to China’s HNA Group for HK$2.62 billion ($337 million) according to a statement by Tysan to the… Read More>>
The world’s largest alternative asset firm chose a new APAC chief this week, as Christopher Heady was named chairman of Blackstone’s Asia Pacific businesses.
Heady takes over the top role for Blackstone in the region after previously serving as the… Read More>>
April kicks off in China with a debt-fuelled surge in housing sales triggering comparisons to the US subprime crisis, as a Chinese telecom tycoon studies Latin American infrastructure history while trying to dig Nicaragua’s copycat Panama canal. All these stories… Read More>>
There were more familiar places in new places than we could fit into this column on the first week in April with a leading hospitality consultancy building up its Southeast Asian team, a retail leasing veteran taking on a new… Read More>>
In a brief message last Thursday, China’s Anbang Insurance abandoned their $14 billion bid for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, with the mainland acquisition machine and its deal partners saying only that “due to various market considerations, the Consortium has… Read More>>
