Chinese investors continued their harvest of international hotels last week when the Jin Jiang Group agreed to buy France’s Louvre hotel chain for a sum said to be in excess of $1.49 billion.
In the deal due to close in… Read More>>
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Chinese investors continued their harvest of international hotels last week when the Jin Jiang Group agreed to buy France’s Louvre hotel chain for a sum said to be in excess of $1.49 billion.
In the deal due to close in… Read More>>

Ma Chaoqun never amounted to much in the ranks of China’s government, but this mid-level manager who spent decades at a state-run water company in Hebei seems to have made the most of it, and then invested the most of… Read More>>

Shanghai’s cramped downtown office market will get an injection of new space this week when a 31-story Gensler-designed tower officially debuts in Xujiahui.
The CURA International Center along Hongqiao Road was completed earlier this year, and could mark the resurgence… Read More>>

Chinese real estate developer Shimao Property Holdings, together with its billionaire boss Hui Wing Mau, have reportedly acquired a downtown Sydney office tower for over A$390 million (US$339 million), as Chinese investors continue to snatch up Australian real estate.
According… Read More>>

China appears to have avoided a meltdown in its real estate market this year, but home sales are continuing to slide, according to official figures released this week.
In a report released this week, China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed… Read More>>

Asia’s richest man continued to sell off his China real estate holdings last week when a property company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing was acquired by China’s Oceanwide Holdings.
According to a statement to the Shenzhen stock exchange… Read More>>

Veteran real estate executive Randall Hall has joined Pamfleet as Chief Operating Officer for China with the Hong Kong-based real estate investment specialists.
In his new role, Hall will be leading the advisory firm’s China initiatives. Commenting on his new… Read More>>

Asia’s real estate executives are enjoying a surge of new roles this week as everyone rushes to get ready for 2015. A veteran agency leader has landed at a regional investment advisory firm, CBRE continues to shake up its Asia… Read More>>

“China’s home market will never crash because homeowners have to make big down-payments.” This line comes up in nearly every debate and discussion of China’s ever-controversial housing sector.
However, this reasoning may deserve some reconsideration after a recent report in… Read More>>

The biggest merger of China’s largest real estate downturn has evaporated – apparently over entrepreneurial pride, as Sunac’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Greentown has been cancelled.
After rumours had circulated in recent weeks that Greentown China Chairman Song… Read More>>