Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Singapore’s Ascendas-Singbridge is buying a landmark office tower in downtown Sydney for A$252 million ($200 million), marking its second office acquisition in Australia.
The state-backed commercial developer announced to the Singapore stock exchange on Friday that it has agreed to… Read More>>
China’s State Council issued new rules on Friday spelling out restrictions on overseas investments by Chinese entities, which specifically target transactions involving real estate, hotels and other areas where mainland companies have become dominant cross-border players over the past five… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda Group is selling stakes in nearly $4.5 billion in real estate projects across the UK, US, China and Australia to a privately held company controlled by its chairman Wang Jianlin, according to an announcement to the Hong Kong… Read More>>
Hong Kong private equity shop Gaw Capital Partners is reported to be in talks to add a boutique New York hotel to its $8 billion global property portfolio. Sources told The New York Post that a Gaw-controlled fund is in… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda Group, China’s largest commercial property developer, has denied reports that it is seeking an exit from its two flagship Australian projects totalling $1.5 billion, amid a regulatory crackdown on overseas investment.
Sources told The Australian Financial Review that… Read More>>
Anbang Insurance chairman Wu Xiaohui may have disappeared into government detention in early June, but at least someone from the once high-flying Chinese insurer was available this week to deny reports of a forced sale of the company’s overseas holdings.
Singapore-listed Suntec REIT is buying a 50 percent stake in a downtown Melbourne office project from Australian property group Mirvac for A$417 million ($328 million), according to an announcement by the REIT’s manager, ARA Trust Management (Suntec) last week.
Once completed,… Read More>>
Sauce maker Lee Kum Kee Group is the latest Hong Kong investor to stir up the London real estate market, buying a landmark office tower in the City of London for £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion), the highest price ever paid… Read More>>
HNA Group, the aggressive outbound investor that has recently run afoul of regulators both in China and abroad, now risks seeing some $2 billion in acquisitions fall apart in the US, Singapore and Malaysia.
The transactions are at risk as… Read More>>
China Investment Corporation (CIC), the world’s third-largest sovereign wealth fund, is boosting its exposure to US commercial property by backing a listed real estate lender created by private equity behemoth TPG.
The Beijing-based fund has revealed that it holds a… Read More>>
