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Beijing’s city government announced pre-sale approvals for two new — and record-breakingly expensive — real estate projects in China’s capital.
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, a permit was issued on Sunday for a project in the city’s Chaoyang district to begin selling units with prices as high as RMB 100,537 per square metre, with the cheapest units being priced at RMB 53,072 per square metre.
Chinese conglomerate Fosun International Ltd (0656.HK), which is rapidly becoming one of China’s leading global investors, today reassured investors that it has adequate cash to finance its proposed 1 billion euro purchase of Portuguese insurer Caixa Seguros e Saude.
The company also indicated that it will continue to look for investment opportunities outside of China.
A privately owned Hong Kong real estate developer added to the flood of Chinese money into Australia this week by picking up the Melbourne Park Hyatt Hotel for a reported A$135 million (US$119.78 million).
The five star hotel is located near Melbourne’s Parliament House at 1 St Andrews Place and was developed in 1999 by Lustig & Moar at a cost of $150 million. The sale involves both the 240 room Park Hyatt hotel and an adjoining commercial car park.
CIFI Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd. (HKEX Code: 884), a top 100 real estate developer in China, announced today that the Group has successfully issued its third issue five-year USD bonds with a coupon rate of 8.875%, with an order book of over USD1.1bn from investors in Asia and Europe.
In a statement the company indicated that net proceeds from the bond issue will mainly be used to refinance the Group’s existing debt and for other general corporate purposes.
Chinese investment firm Fosun Group and Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) from the US, today announced plans for a real estate joint venture to invest in mixed-use development projects in China, and in select overseas locations.
The two companies refrained from stating dollar amounts or location specifics for the projects, however, Fosun has recently focused within China on tourism developments such as its plans for a 7-star resort hotel in Shanghai. Overseas, the investment conglomerate purchased 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza from JP Morgan Chase for US$725 million last October.
Fosun International Ltd, the closely held Chinese conglomerate which owns Club Med, plans to build a 7-star resort hotel near Shanghai’s Disneyland.
According to a report in the official People’s Daily, Fosun CEO Liang Xinjun indicated that the group would build it’s second Atlantis Hotel near the as yet incomplete Disney project. “They (Atlantis executives) are really interested in building it near Disneyland,” Liang commented.
This week, two more Chinese real estate developers began raising dollar-denominated debt financing as China’s government struggles to restrict lending and deflate a housing price bubble. In an interesting twist, both developers had already received significant investments from Hong Kong… Read More>>
Despite stories of rocketing prices, China’s enthusiasm for real estate — at least domestically — may be cooling off. Analysts now predict that investment in China’s property industry may only reach 15 percent in 2014, a major drop-off from the 19.8 percent expansion that the sector enjoyed in 2013.
In a report in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) today, Wei Yao, China economist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong, noted, “Further investment growth deceleration seems quite certain to us, which is, however, a necessary step towards a more balanced economy.”
Propelled by housing prices that jumped as much as 20 percent in some major cities during December, China closed out 2013 with a record RMB 6.8 trillion ($1.1 trillion) in home sales for 2013.
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A fund managed by Singaporean real estate developer Mapletree set new records for land prices in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district recently with its purchase of a commercial site for HK$3.77 billion (US$486 million).
The successful bid by Mapletree investments, beat… Read More>>
