Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
After some apparent second thoughts, the Chinese city of Hohhot has officially lifted some of the key restraints on home sales, as the Inner Mongolian capital struggles with a severe oversupply of housing.
According to a statement on Hohhot’s local… Read More>>
Real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield continued to expand its China team last week by bringing over Linda Chan as a director with the New York-based company’s Tenant Advisory Group.
Operating from Cushman & Wakefield’s Beijing office, Chan will be… Read More>>
The capital of Inner Mongolia seems to have succeeded in finding out how far a Chinese city can go in rolling back policy restrictions on home sales, and the answer appears to be “not quite that far.”
After the government… Read More>>
Chinese hotel development group Jinmao Investments and Jinmao (China) received a lukewarm welcome in its debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange yesterday, raising HK$3.2 billion ($414 million) in an undersubscribed IPO.
The spin-off of hospitality assets from mainland developer… Read More>>
For the second time this month a Chinese financial institution has acquired a London office building, as China Construction Bank was revealed today to have purchased a tower in the city’s financial district for 110 million pounds ($187 million).
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The new governor of South Korea’s Jeju island has decided that Chinese property projects in the gambling mecca, including a $2.2 billion casino and a 63-storey resort tower, need a second look and this could mean trouble for some mainland… Read More>>
China’s real estate industry and the shadow banking network that it relies on received a collective black eye this week when a Hangzhou developer first defaulted on loan payments, and was later arrested on fraud allegations surrounding RMB 2 billion… Read More>>
A study on real estate investment prospects released this week compared 300 cities worldwide for basic factors driving commercial property value growth, and ranked Shanghai fourth, behind only San Francisco, London, and Dubai.
The Global 300 Cities report by property… Read More>>
Despite an onslaught of scary headlines about Chinese real estate, at least one mainland property developer sees 2014 as a good time to start selling shares on Hong Kong’s stock market.
Beijing-based Guorui Properties Ltd is hoping to raise $242.4… Read More>>
Mall developer SM Prime, the listed vehicle of Filipino billionaire Henry Sy has already dipped into at least $50-$100 million of a recent bond sale to help bring to market its 530,000 square metre SM Tianjin Shopping Centre project… Read More>>
