Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Logistics fund manager The Redwood Group this week announced an agreement with Dutch pension fund service provider PGGM that will pour $144M into the group’s warehouse development projects in China.
The investment by PGGM’s Private Real Estate Fund is the… Read More>>
The head of alternative investment giant Blackstone finds China’s warehouses more interesting than luxury apartments, and just might be in the market for office buildings or shopping malls.
Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of the US-based private equity firm was… Read More>>
A cross-border consortium of private equity investors led by a unit of Standard Chartered Bank last week put $124 million into a Chongqing real estate project in a deal that may signal a greater role for private investment funds in… Read More>>
This week China’s real estate community sees another tranche of promotions at JLL, someone receiving an upgrade at Colliers in Singapore, and a new face at EC Harris in Hong Kong. Read on for more details.
Brian Fu has joined… Read More>>
New York is cheaper than Beijing and London’s a better bargain than Shanghai, but at least Hong Kong is cheaper than Luanda, Angola.
A report on the cost of living in major cities around the world shows that Hong Kong, Singapore,… Read More>>
Parkson Retail Group has temporarily closed one of its Beijing stores following reports of dropping sales and after it permanently closed two stores in other Chinese cities.
Sam Au, chief financial officer of Parkson Retail Group, told the local press… Read More>>
The capital of eastern China’s Shandong province will now allow potential buyers to purchase as many homes as they would like, regardless of whether or not they are residents.
The move by the city of Jinan was confirmed by officials… Read More>>
Chinese purchases of US homes rose 19 percent during 2013 to total $22 billion in housing purchases. The surge in spending made China the leading foreign buyers of US homes with 24 percent of US housing purchases by foreign buyers… Read More>>
In a sign that China’s real estate downturn isn’t being felt the same way in every location, the country’s commercial capital this week saw a record price paid for a land parcel at almost the same time that a developer… Read More>>
Real estate service provider Cushman & Wakefield today announced the appointment of Mark Suchy to the position of Director, Capital Markets, East China.
Based in Shanghai, Suchy will be charged with leading the US-based firm’s Capital Markets team in Eastern… Read More>>
