Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Poly Real Estate led China’s major real estate developers in a sudden stock rally following reports in the official media that two of China’s largest second-tier cities would be relaxing restrictions on home purchases.
The Guangzhou-based property firm was up… Read More>>
China Vanke, the mainland’s biggest developer by sales, continued its global expansion this week by acquiring a residential site in Hong Kong for HK$860 million (RMB 688 million). The project will be Vanke’s second venture in Hong Kong and will… Read More>>
A Chinese shipbuilder belonging to the same group of companies as troubled developer Glorious Property Holdings Ltd (HKG:0845) has asked bondholders not to demand their money back, as it struggles to restructure its finances.
Rongsheng Heavy Industries, which was founded… Read More>>
Vanke, the country’s largest property developer by revenue, is holding discussions with private equity giant Blackstone Group about a real estate fund to pursue opportunities in China’s logistics real estate sector, a senior company official revealed over the weekend.
The… Read More>>
China saw its second commercial bond default within a month on Friday when a Jiangsu construction company failed to make an interest payment on a RMB 180 million (US$29 million) bond, and the country’s financial markets reacted by climbing during… Read More>>
The mall developer controlled by the Philippines’ richest man has announced that it is raising $740 million in debt financing to expand its retail projects in China and its home country, as the company appears to be backing away from… Read More>>
China’s central government made a pair of moves last week to gain tighter control over the nation’s unruly real estate market, setting a four year horizon for centralising registration of property deals, while also expanding the range of its regular… Read More>>
Hong Kong private equity shop Gaw Capital and Dutch design firm MVRDV have started transforming a Kowloon warehouse into an 18,000 square metre set of luxury loft offices in a developing business area of Hong Kong.
MVRDV’s conversion of the… Read More>>
This week China’s real estate community sees veteran asset managers migrating back to Denmark, Singaporeans heading back to their island city-state, and mainlanders moving to Hong Kong. But there are still 1.29+ billion of the rest of us still here… Read More>>
Foreign purchases of trophy buildings in the US more than doubled during 2013, and the leading hunters of these high profile assets were from China, according to a soon-to-be released market survey.
Major acquisitions of landmark properties by investors such… Read More>>
