Asia real estate and outbound investment news
A joint venture between ARA Asset Management and Chelsfield Asia has purchased the Manulife Centre on Singapore’s Bras Basah Road for S$555.5 million ($408.8 million), according to statements released late Friday.
Singapore-based ARA and Chelsfield, the Asian arm of a… Read More>>
Singapore-based real estate fund manager ARA Asset Management announced on Monday that it had purchased a portfolio of 38 Hyatt-branded hotels in the United States from a unit of Lone Star Funds at an undisclosed price, marking ARA’s first foray… Read More>>
Gaw Capital Partners announced today that the private equity firm, through a fund under its management and in league with partners including British Columbia’s QuadReal Property Group, have acquired the Ocean Towers office building in Shanghai.
The consortium purchased the… Read More>>
Link Asset Management Limited, the manager of Hong Kong’s Link Real Estate Investment Trust, announced today its acquisition of Beijing Jingtong Roosevelt Plaza, a recently completed shopping centre in Beijing’s suburban Tongzhou district for RMB 2.56 billion ($369 million).
The… Read More>>
China’s nascent rental housing market hits the news again today as leading rental operator Ziroom pulls down 20,000 recent home listings over formaldehyde concerns.
Singapore’s ARA Asset Management also gets some ink as it searches for bargains in Malaysia and… Read More>>
In what could be a north Asia to southeast Asia handoff, the lead story in today’s collection of real estate headlines from the region tracks Singaporean developer Wing Tai’s potential purchase of a $548 million London asset from Korea’s Samsung… Read More>>
ARA Asset Management has closed on its acquisition of a 19.5 percent stake in Australia’s Cromwell Property, boosting the Singapore-based company’s assets under management to S$77.2 billion ($57.7 billion).
The Singaporean asset manager implemented the deal by purchasing 86.5 million… Read More>>
CapitaLand again led an annual ranking of Asia Pacific’s largest property fund managers, as the Singapore firm built a war chest of $61.3 billion of assets under management (AUM) in 2017, according to a recent survey by the Hong Kong-based… Read More>>
Real estate fund manager ARA Asset Management has tapped former diplomat and investment veteran Grant Dooley to lead its newly formed infrastructure platform as chief executive officer. Based in Singapore, Dooley is tasked with overseeing the ARA Infrastructure division and… Read More>>
Leading this week’s roundup of people moves, a top hospitality exec has joined Hyatt Hotels to lead the brand’s growth in Greater China. An asset management pro is taking the helm at a newly formed Singaporean investment firm, and CBRE… Read More>>
