Asia real estate and outbound investment news
While China’s investors have been buying up London real estate in recent years, and firms like Greenland Group and Dalian Wanda have made billion dollar acquisitions of commercial properties, the country’s nouveau riche are now moving into the English countryside.
According to a story from the UK’s Guardian, Chinese investors are among the growing numbers of rich foreigners buying farms and country estates across Britain.
Evergrande Real Estate Group, one of China’s five largest real estate developers is adopting an aggressive approach to renegotiating its current debt commitment as the nation’s real estate firms search for ways to continue to financing their businesses amidst a government crackdown.
The company made a controversial compensation offer to existing bondholders recently, which appears aimed at making it easier for the Guangzhou-based firm to take on further debt.
Mainland investments in the European property market tripled last year, with Britain and Germany as the top destinations, and the momentum is likely to continue this year.
Insurers, developers and wealthy individuals have joined China’s sovereign wealth fund in seeking to diversify their assets outside Asia…
Greenland Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. (337), part of Chinese state-owned Greenland Holding Group Co., announced yesterday that it will partner with fellow state-run developer, China Resources Land Ltd. (1109) to develop a Shanghai site it bought last month for 5.95 billion yuan ($985 million).
According to a statement filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the two companies will form a 50-50 venture for the site in the city’s Huangpu district.
Shimao Property raised a $600 million seven-year note on Tuesday, joining the flurry of Chinese developers that have tapped the market this year amid tighter onshore banking liquidity and concerns over a potential rise in interest rates.
The Hong Kong-listed group’s transaction on Tuesday – with a callable option in the fourth year – is the longest in duration and lowest in coupon done in the high-yield space so far this year.
China’s real estate industry is on firmer footing compared with a year ago, said Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services in a report on Monday.
Developers registered record sales growth and enjoyed financing windows that led bond issuance to double in 2013. In the past two weeks, more than a dozen municipalities across China have taken steps to cool their markets, as housing prices continued to rise.
China Vanke once again topped the sales charts among real estate developers in China, however, analysts now warn that the Shenzhen-based firm needs to work harder at innovation if it is to maintain market leadership.
With revenues of 170.9 billion yuan in 2013, Vanke again led the field, followed by Greenland Group, Dalian Wanda Group, Poly Real Estate, China Overseas Land and Investment, Country Garden, and Evergrande Real Estate
Cofco submitted a binding bid for the stake last month, a person familiar with the transaction said. The stake is worth around US$250 million, but it wasn’t immediately clear how much Cofco will pay.
COFCO, formally China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation, is China’s largest food processing, manufacturer and trader.
China Investment Corp., the country’s $575 billion sovereign wealth fund, favors European infrastructure and real estate as developed markets will drive the next phase of the global economic recovery.
“Europe has a lot of potential,” CIC Chairman Ding Xuedong said yesterday at a conference in Hong Kong.
The bubble created in Dubai’s real estate market burst in 2008, but the sector is now making a comeback, attracting global investors including those from China, reports Shanghai’s China Business News.
Housing prices in Dubai have surged by nearly 30% over the past year, with Dubai-based real estate developers recruiting salespeople that can speak Chinese
