Now that I’m a well-connected blogger in China’s real estate world, I have scored the opportunity to have lunch tomorrow with the CEO of Fosun, Liang Xinjun.
For those of you who need a refresher, Fosun is the parent company of the real estate developer Forte and recently made the news as part of an awkward partnership with the more flamboyant SOHO China for a development on Shanghai’s Bund.
It will be interesting to see what Mr Liang has to say about the outlook for China’s real estate market in 2012, and I will also try to ask him how it is that SOHO was able (if they really were) to buy 50% of that Bund site without Fosun’s permission, if Fosun actually had first refusal rights on the deal.
In the meantime, if any of you have questions for Fosun, please be sure to send them along and I will try to ask on your behalf.
A full report will be on Mingtiandi tomorrow.
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