Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Mainland China’s top real estate developers have seen a bountiful year despite a downtrend in the past three months, with 26 developers reporting contracted sales exceeding RMB 100 billion ($15.5 billion) through the first 11 months of the year.
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COFCO Property has been given a green light by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to buy back a controlling 64.18 percent stake in Hong Kong-listed commercial real estate developer Joy City Property for RMB 14.76 billion ($2.15 billion), re-integrating… Read More>>
Ever-climbing office rents in Hong Kong’s Central district have prompted yet another finance company to change business locales, with private equity firm PAG signing a deal with Swire Properties to lease two floors in Three Pacific Place in Admiralty.
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Singapore-based real estate fund manager ARA Asset Management announced on Monday that it had purchased a portfolio of 38 Hyatt-branded hotels in the United States from a unit of Lone Star Funds at an undisclosed price, marking ARA’s first foray… Read More>>
European insurer Allianz on Friday announced that it has agreed to buy a 20 percent stake in the Ocean Financial Centre office tower in Singapore from Keppel REIT for S$537.3 million ($392.1 million).
Allianz’ investment in the grade A office… Read More>>
Gaw Capital Partners announced today that the private equity firm, through a fund under its management and in league with partners including British Columbia’s QuadReal Property Group, have acquired the Ocean Towers office building in Shanghai.
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Link Asset Management Limited, the manager of Hong Kong’s Link Real Estate Investment Trust, announced today its acquisition of Beijing Jingtong Roosevelt Plaza, a recently completed shopping centre in Beijing’s suburban Tongzhou district for RMB 2.56 billion ($369 million).
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China has a new entry on the list of the world’s youngest billionaires as the twenty-something daughter of Longfor Properties founder Wu Yajun just saw her personal net-worth jump by HK$56 billion ($7.17 billion).
Cai Xinyi, daughter of Wu Yajun… Read More>>
HNA Real Estate Holdings has been having a close-out sale of some of its biggest assets this year, but now the property division of China’s best-known, and most-indebted, aviation conglomerate is going a step further by taking the words real… Read More>>
Debt-laden developer China Evergrande announced on Monday that it had sold $1 billion in senior notes due in 2020, with the new paper carrying 11 percent interest rates.
The company said that the fresh tranche of bonds, which were issued… Read More>>
