Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
China’s Anbang Insurance has apparently rekindled its passion for hotels with the mainland financial upstart reportedly preparing a $7 billion bid for the FTSE-listed Intercontinental Hotels Group.
Anbang, which became famous for its $1.95 billion acquisition of New York’s Waldorf… Read More>>
Beijing-based Anbang Insurance, which failed in a $14 billion bid to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts this year, continued to draw attention in China’s financial world this month after new figures showed that the company controlled by entrepreneur Wu Xiaohui… Read More>>
China’s Anbang Insurance lost the $13.6 billion battle for Starwood Hotels and Resorts in April, but the prolonged campaign to acquire the global hotel group may have helped drive a sales surge that has transformed the 12-year-old privately held group… Read More>>
Tesla is partnering with a government-owned business park developer to open a mainland production facility in Shanghai, Hong Kong’s central bank wonders if offering 120 percent mortgages might be risky, and two companies linked to questionable trading may not be… Read More>>
Anbang may be planning to convert 1000 of the 1400 hotel rooms in the legendary New York site into luxury condos after closing on their landmark acquisition over a year ago.
According to sources cited in Crain’s New York, Anbang’s… Read More>>
More trouble could be in the works for China’s most flamboyant insurance company, as regulators are said to be taking a closer look at Anbang. Plus, Vancouver could start taxing empty homes and more mall developers hope to go “asset-light”… Read More>>
The mainland’s publicly listed developers have taken on more debt than ever in the last year, but over the in the US, major mainland investments are expected in the hotel sector. Plus Anbang’s Wu Xiaohui decides to skip an event… Read More>>
A US real estate investment firm has reached a final close of $645 million on a fund covering Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea. Meanwhile in Singapore, a Chinese developer is betting $218 million on a… Read More>>
After withdrawing its $14 billion bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts on April Fools’ Day, China’s Anbang Insurance Group has apparently moved on to acquire a hotel group in Canada, as what appears to be an affiliate of the mainland… Read More>>
Beijing may be tightening up its capital controls, but the government is also taking steps to clear the path for more overseas acquisitons, following a recent move by the State Council. If there is an uptick in cross-border deals, they… Read More>>
