…tate in recent months, with the company having hired former Blackstone and Soho China executive Yan Yan as a strategic advisor at the beginning of this year, according to an internal memo seen by Mingtiandi. Hillhouse had earlier been rumoured to be exploring a buyout of commercial developer Soho China. In August, former Warburg Pincus managing director Joseph Gagnon reportedly joined Hillhouse to lead the firm’s establishment of a real estate inv…
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Central Shanghai Office Rents Inch Upward After Two-Year Slide
…eam. Online chatroom startup Clubhouse also grew its presence along the banks of the Huangpu by taking up 5,000 square metres in Soho China’s Bund Soho project….
Sun Hung Kai Leverages Community, Tech and Flexibility for Townplace Apartments Sponsored Feature
…ncluding the gym at Kennedy Town and the swimming pool with sundeck at the Soho spot. The company also employs a professionally trained community team which organises social and networking events at Townplace to ensure that the company’s upwardly mobile residents stay socially connected. “We have organised rooftop yoga classes, special events like pop-up flower bouquets on Mother’s Day, and even candle workshops,” Kuan says. “All of this is put to…
Longfor Chair Resignation Triggers Stock Sell-Off
…sectors of the mainland economy, with billionaire entrepreneurs including Soho China’s Pan Shiyi and ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming having stepped away from their official roles since early 2021. Junior Varsity Following her resignation, Wu, whose family office owns over 40 percent of Longfor’s stock, will become a strategic development consultant to the group, with chief executive Chen Xuping taking over as chairman. New chair Chen Xuping joined Longf…
Vanke Launches 88,000 Sqm Commercial Project in Shanghai
…its office units. Following the lead of other domestic developers such as SOHO China, Vanke is marketing its projects on a strata basis by selling off floors or other units in the buildings to individual investors who may use them for their own business or rent them out. The developer is also expecting to soon start selling units at another project, Yingjia Center in Beijing. Vanke Partnering with State-Owned Firms Vanke VMO is a cooperation proj…
Is China Ready to Loosen Real Estate Controls?
…property tax to more cities should make this clear. As far back as October SOHO China’s CEO Zhang Xin told reporters that she expected the government to relax property controls by the end of March 2012. There were further signs of investor optimism about even the downtrodden residential property sector when CBRE last month announced its first China housing investment in four years. Then when the government lowered the reserve ratio requirement for…
Announcing China’s Top 5 Real Estate Billionaires for 2012
…US$ 3.3 billion Zhang Xin and her spotllight-loving husband Pan Shiyi run SOHO China and their love for media attention and market aggression seem to have paid off this year as their 2010 sales rose 146% and secured them the #5 spot among China’s real estate billionaires. Altogether there were six real estate billionaires among the top 20 on Forbes list, with Lu Zhiqiang of Oceanwide Real Estate Group coming in at number 19 with a net worth of US…
Shui On Predicts 12-18 Months of Continued Real Estate Austerity
…the more pessimistic tone recently heard from other developers, including SOHO China’s previously bullish CEO Zhang Xin. When the restrictions are lifted, however, Lee appeared to be painting a picture of a rapid return to property price increases, driven by large amounts of liquidity in the market. In the case of Shui On, “One third of our buyers are paying with cash,” Lee pointed out, backing this up with an estimate of Chinese savers having RM…
2 More Private Real Estate Developers Go Bust in Hangzhou and Guangdong
…verextended and been forced to sell off projects to keep themselves afloat. Only last week, Greentown China sold a major mixed-use development in Shanghai to SOHO China after gorging itself on credit during the 2008-2009 government market stimulus….
Canadian Report Finds Empty Mall – Discovers China Retail Space Glut
…rs, which has been open two years (referring to a project by the developer SOHO China in Sanlitun), is an indication of a wider trend, retail analysts are beginning to warn. Caught up in the heady rush of the world’s largest consumer market and a booming economy, Chinese retail developers may have built too much, too quickly. Simply put — NOT! The maddening fact of retail real estate is that it is half-business and half-art. Getting a mall right r…
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