Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield today announced the appointment of James Shepherd as its new Head of Research for Greater China.
Based in Shanghai, Mr Shepherd will be responsible for reporting on trends and events in the real estate… Read More>>
Shui On Land CEO Freddy Lee abruptly stepped down from his leadership of one of China’s best-known real estate developers late last week, leading to speculation that he had been dismissed by company founder and chairman Vincent Lo.
In a… Read More>>
Real estate developer and attention-seeker Pan Shiyi led the media on a pollution-checking tour of Shanghai’s subway on Friday in an apparent attempt to ensure the public that the city’s public transport was pretty ok.
Pan’s day job may be… Read More>>
Not content with being China’s second largest real estate developer or winning the AFC Champions League soccer crown, Guanzhou-based Evergrande Group announced orders worth RMB 5.7 billion ($940 million) for its new bottled water brand, Evergrande Spring over the weekend.
At a ceremony in the city of Qingyuan in Guangdong, the company’s chairman, Xu Jiayin announced plans to…
While everyone else has been frolicking this holiday season, Ming has been hard at work making a few enhancements to Mingtiandi, so that I can bring you more real estate news, and better information.
Last week, I stopped publishing the… Read More>>
Chinese conglomerate Fosun International Ltd. picked up Portuguese insurance firm Caixa Seguros e Saude this week for 1 billion euros ($1.36 billion), marking one of the biggest overseas investments in the finance sector to date by a Chinese investor.
In a sign of China’s growing economic clout, Fosun bested U.S. buyout firm Apollo Management International LLP to acquire the insurance arm of Portugal state bank Caixa Geral de Depositos SA
Each week on Mingtiandi we track who among China’s commercial real estate community has left their role, been promoted, or simply taken the fall for failing to captain a company that was still being run by the chairman anyway.
Four out of the world’s ten most expensive office locations are in China, according to a newly released survey, with Beijing and Hong Kong leading the list.
Leasing an office in Beijing’s Financial Street (Jinrong Jie) will cost you US$2120 per square metre per year, and in the Central Business District area you could save a few bucks and get by with paying only
An unwillingness by local governments to sell land for logistics use, and the rapid expansion of China’s ecommerce sector, are driving up the costs of warehouse space for users on the mainland according to real estate analysts, with rents in Beijing now reaching US$7 per square metre per year.
Real estate investment turnover for the Central London market in 2013 reached in excess of £20.56 billion (US$33.84 billion), driven largely by Asian investors, according to a recent announcement from property consultancy Savills.
The amount of investment was the most ever achieved in Central London and a 39% increase on the 2012 figure of £14.8 billion.
