Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
China recently set aside RMB 119.3 billion ($19.2 billion) to provide affordable housing for its middle-class, but the program seems to first be creating opportunities for massive fraud and abuse of funds.
The country’s National Audit Office issued a statement… Read More>>
Details of the downfall of another set of local officials felled by the Xi Jinping government’s anti-corruption campaign were released last week, and once again the misbehaving bureaucrats were accused of accumulating vast real estate holdings. (As well as a… Read More>>
China’s real estate elite continued to build bridges with the US this week when Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi – the flamboyant couple behind developer SOHO China – announced a $15 million gift to Harvard University.
The pair of property entrepreneurs donated… Read More>>
The real estate billionaire behind a Shanghai shopping mall and hotel plans to buy up the majority of an upcoming Singapore REIT offering as China’s property developers continue to look for ways to invest their wealth overseas.
According to a… Read More>>
A new 380,000 square foot (35,303 square metre) tower in Midtown Manhattan was just announced today, and its developers — one of which appears to represent anonymous mainland investors — appear set on turning Chinese capital into New York profits.
Investment by China’s real estate developers continued to slow during June, as the industry is squeezed between rapidly growing inventory and dropping demand, according to government statistics released today.
And these difficulties facing property firms are rapidly spreading to the… Read More>>
Despite signs of a downturn in Asian property markets, the region’s real estate sector received another vote of confidence from international investors this week, when LaSalle Investment Management announced its successful recruitment of $1 billion in new equity for investment… Read More>>
Late last month Guangzhou Party Secretary Wan Qingliang became one of the highest level Chinese officials to lose his job amidst the country’s current anti-corruption campaign, and China media sources are now alleging that a history of dirty real estate… Read More>>
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>>
