Sekisui House has agreed to acquire US builder MDC Holdings for $4.95 billion with the deal set to make the Japanese developer the fifth largest homebuilder in the world’s biggest economy.
The Japanese firm said on Thursday that it will… Read More>>
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Sekisui House has agreed to acquire US builder MDC Holdings for $4.95 billion with the deal set to make the Japanese developer the fifth largest homebuilder in the world’s biggest economy.
The Japanese firm said on Thursday that it will… Read More>>

Despite a spike in Grade A office supply across central Tokyo, average rents for high-end workspace climbed by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter at the end of 2023, according to Savills.
As office tenants paid average monthly rents of JPY 9,872 ($69)… Read More>>

South Korea’s National Pension Service has agreed to sell its stake in the O’Parinor shopping centre in Paris to Sofidy, a real estate investment unit of Temasek-backed Tikehau Capital at 33 percent discount to the asking price in a marketing… Read More>>

TSE-listed Nippon Building Fund announced on Friday that it has agreed to buy more space in a mixed-use complex developed by Mitsui Fudosan in Tokyo for JPY 43.8 billion ($303 million). The company revealed in the same statement that it… Read More>>

Korea’s Mastern Investment Management sold a nearly-completed office building in Seoul’s Gangnam business district late last month as Korea’s office market continues to defy a global slowdown.
The real estate fund manager, which manages over 150 assets worldwide, announced in… Read More>>

With Japan’s tourism sector on the rebound, global players have ramped up purchases of hospitality assets in Asia’s second largest economy, with foreign investors accounting for more than 60 percent of hotel acquisitions in the country during the first three… Read More>>

Daiwa House Logistics Trust is expanding beyond its home market of Japan with the SGX-listed REIT having agreed to acquire a newly built warehouse near Ho Chi Minh City from its sponsor for VND 483 billion ($20 million).
The trust… Read More>>

Nomura Real Estate Holdings is buying a Japanese hotel operator from Odakyu Electric Railway as the infrastructure firm continues to struggle with the lingering impact of the pandemic on the travel industry.
Odakyu announced last week that it is divesting… Read More>>

Sekisui House REIT has made its biggest splash of 2023, with the TSE-listed trust having announced the acquisition of three Tokyo rental residential assets and an office building in the capital’s Shinjuku district for a total of JPY 11 billion… Read More>>

An Angelo Gordon fund is selling an 18-storey office tower in Japan’s Yokohama city for JPY 20 billion ($142 million) to Orix JREIT.
The TSE-listed trust announced on Monday that it will acquire Shinyokohama Square Building, 36 kilometres (22 miles)… Read More>>