Asia real estate and outbound investment news
The battle for China’s co-working market has kicked into high gear, with New York-based shared office giant WeWork announcing it has raised $500 million for a new China unit.
Japan’s SoftBank and China’s Hony Capital are leading the investment in… Read More>>
US private equity giant Blackstone is reportedly planning to ramp up its presence in Asia by raising up to $3 billion for its first buyout fund focused on the region. According to sources cited by Reuters, Blackstone Group LP has… Read More>>
China’s biggest-ever property deal has taken another twist, with Guangzhou’s R&F Properties suddenly stepping in to acquire 77 hotels from Dalian Wanda Group for RMB 19.9 billion ($2.9 billion).
The acquisition is the latest twist on a sale of Wanda’s… Read More>>
naked Hub, the Chinese flexible office provider, is joining forces with Singapore’s JustGroup to create Asia’s leading operator of high-end co-working space and compete with US giant WeWork, the companies announced Tuesday.
The merger of the two shared office players… Read More>>
Hong Kong developer Chinese Estates Holdings has deepened its longstanding ties with China Evergrande, revealing it has acquired a five percent stake in the mainland’s largest homebuilder since April for a total price of HK$8.1 billion ($1.04 billion).
The news… Read More>>
Blackstone Group is reportedly in talks to acquire a $525 million India real estate fund, adding to the US private equity giant’s $3 billion of property investments in the country. The New York-based company is looking to buy ILFS India… Read More>>
Less than one year ago, Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group paid $4.4 billion to privatise its Hong Kong-listed developer, Wanda Commercial Properties, in the biggest share buy-back ever on the city’s stock exchange.
While the billionaire property developer still hopes to… Read More>>
China’s biggest commercial property developer has made headlines around the world as it builds up a sprawling retail empire and snaps up overseas assets from cinema chains to sports firms. Questions were raised, however, about the sustainability of this aggressive… Read More>>
With backing from the country’s biggest pension fund, South Korea’s largest real estate fund manager has bought a $635 million prime office property in central Seoul from a fund controlled by Singaporean developer Ascendas-Singbridge, according to an announcement this week… Read More>>
Champion REIT, a listed trust sponsored by Hong Kong developer Great Eagle, is testing buyer interest in the HK$8.5 billion ($1.1 billion) Langham Place office tower in Mong Kok, as a flurry of major deals drives record-high property values in… Read More>>
