Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
While Alibaba’s Jack Ma became famous as a leading force in e-commerce in China, the leader of China’s biggest online marketplace has lately been expanding the group’s reach into the physical world of shops and stores.
The change in focus… Read More>>
Ten minutes. That’s all it took to receive my recent order of chilled craft beer from Ele.me (an Alibaba Group company). There was no need for me to make a trip down to the local pub or to have planned… Read More>>
There are disrupters in every industry. Companies forcing positive change on the services we pay for every day. Spotify with music. Uber with transport. Netflix with TV and film. And the greatest disrupters go even further than just changing the… Read More>>
Tough credit conditions in China’s real estate market are giving foreign investors the upper hand, a favourable advantage that has been encouraging big global funds to pile in.
Financing costs for Chinese developers, China’s primary real estate dealmakers, have been… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway system has nearly doubled in capacity over the last twenty years, helping to make developer CK Asset’s Ocean Pride project – which connects directly to the Tsuen Wan West MTR station in the New Territories… Read More>>
Finance industry journal Euromoney named Cushman & Wakefield the top China real estate agency in 2018, as the global property consultancy leveraged a surging investment market for mainland properties to scoop up the top slot for the second consecutive year.
Buildings are heavy, and sometimes the weight of all that steel and concrete is too much to bear. A sinking floor, cracking wall or misaligned racking can bring a business to a halt while the facility is stabilised. Traditional fixes… Read More>>
Global design firm Benoy has created some of China’s most distinctive architectural landmarks since the UK-based studio first opened its doors in Shanghai in 2008. Today, as the firm celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its first office in mainland China,… Read More>>
After years of slowing sales, Hong Kong’s retail market has started to pick up, signalling good news for occupiers and investors alike.
For almost four years, the retail market has seen decreasing sales, primarily owing to a slowdown in the… Read More>>
When Kardan NV first ventured into the Chinese market more than a decade ago, the European developer focussed on riding the urbanisation wave by building up a portfolio of residential projects in fast-growing second-tier and third-tier markets across the mainland.
