Asia real estate and outbound investment news
E-commerce giant Alibaba continued to expand its offline retail empire today with a deal to take control of China’s largest hypermarket operator for HK$28 billion ($3.6 billion).
The Hangzhou-based company said in an announcement to the Hong Kong stock exchange… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda Group last week said that it is sticking to its plan to open 40 to 50 new plazas each year despite steep declines in revenue and profit at the conglomerate’s real estate and hospitality businesses during the first… Read More>>
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has partnered with Australian property group Charter Hall to buy a 49 percent stake in a portfolio of convenience stores operated by Ampol, Australia’s biggest oil refiner, for A$682 million ($488.9 million).
Ampol, formerly Caltex Australia,… Read More>>
China Resources Capital Management, the alternative investments arm of China’s state-owned conglomerate China Resources Holdings, said Thursday it and partner Asia Food Growth Fund have signed an agreement to buy a 65 percent stake in Hong Kong-based high-end supermarket chain… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s retail property market is bracing for turbulent times as a street front shop in the world’s most expensive shopping district was sold at a 73 percent loss.
According to Land Registry records cited by the Hong Kong Economic… Read More>>
Despite slumping retail sales, a division of tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi’s TCC Group has agreed to purchase a 50 percent stake in a suburban Singapore shopping centre from Frasers Property, the SGX-listed developer controlled by the Thai billionaire.
TCC Prosperity’s purchase… Read More>>
Luckin Coffee chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu’s multi-billion dollar business empire is curdling like a week-old latte, as the founder of three listed companies is said to be in line for criminal charges over his role in a RMB 2.2 billion… Read More>>
The COVID-19 pandemic drove the biggest drop in US retail sales ever during April, and now the coronavirus has also killed off the country’s largest mall developer’s appetite for a $3.6 billion merger.
Simon Property Group in a 202-page declaratory… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Link REIT survived a steep downturn the city’s retail sector in 2019, recording a 5.6 percent rise in revenue to HK$10.7 billion ($1.4 billion) for the year ending 31 March 2020. That income increase came despite the city’s… Read More>>
Mainland electronics conglomerate Realord Group Holdings has made a voluntary conditional cash offer to buy out Hong Kong’s Sincere Group in a deal that values the city’s oldest Chinese-owned department store group at HK$500 million ($65 million), according to a… Read More>>
