Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
US alternative investment giant Blackstone announced today that it has acquired a minority stake in Hong Kong-based private equity firm PAG for an undisclosed sum.
The deal between Stephen Schwarzman’s 33-year-old investment firm and its new Asian-focused partner expands Blackstone’s… Read More>>
India continues to be a hub of activity for US private equity real estate investors, with reports emerging today that Blackstone is set to invest another $1.3 billion in a set of Mumbai office assets. Also in the news, Brookfield… Read More>>
Sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) has exited its investment in Blackstone 11 years after taking a stake in the US alternative investment giant. During that stretch, the guardian of China’s foreign exchange reserves and the world’s biggest landlord… Read More>>
At the top of today’s news, US alternative investment giant Blackstone is battling an array of local and international bidders to get its hands on a landmark twin tower office complex in downtown Seoul. Futher south, Singapore’s CapitaLand is boostings… Read More>>
Blackstone’s global head of real estate, Jonathan Gray, will take the reins as president and chief operating officer of the US private equity giant effective March 1. The 26-year Blackstone veteran will take over day-to-day management of the New York-based… Read More>>
Blackstone Group was a primary supplier to Anbang Insurance Group’s headlong effort to become one of China’s biggest buyers of overseas assets. Stephen Schwarzman’s alternative investment giant sold no less than $9.5 billion in real estate and shares to the… Read More>>
Earlier this month Stephen Schwarzman presented an award to HNA in New York, but the Blackstone boss took home the real prize this past week when his investment firm reportedly agreed to buy a downtown Sydney office tower from the… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC is said to be selling a Waldorf Astoria-branded resort in Hawaii to Blackstone Group for $1.1 billion, marking the second-biggest sale of a single hotel in US history.
The sovereign wealth fund has reportedly reached an agreement with… Read More>>
A Blackstone property fund is buying back a 10 percent stake in European warehouse platform Logicor, which the private equity giant sold to China Investment Corporation (CIC) for $13.8 billion earlier this year, according to a news report.
CIC, China’s… Read More>>
Japan pops to the top of today’s real estate headlines as TH Real Estate and Australia’s Future Fund jointly sell off a Manhattan tower to a Japanese buyer. Also in the news, a Chinese government program to subsidize housing is… Read More>>
