CapitaLand Ascott Trust (CLAS) achieved a 12 percent year-on-year increase in gross profit during the first six months of the year, with the hospitality trust’s managers attributing the Singapore-listed REIT’s improved performance to sustained demand for accommodation and rising room… Read More>>
CapitaLand Ascott Trust Buys Out South Carolina Student Housing Project
Singapore-listed CapitaLand Ascott Trust has taken full ownership of Standard at Columbia after acquiring the remaining 10 percent stake in the US student accommodation asset.
In 2021, CLAS (then known as Ascott Residence Trust) teamed with sponsor The Ascott Ltd… Read More>>
CapitaLand Ascott Trust Q1 Gross Profit Up 15% on More Demand, Bigger Portfolio
CapitaLand Ascott Trust achieved a 15 percent increase in gross profit during the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2023, with the trust’s managers citing sustained lodging demand and expansion of its portfolio as boosting… Read More>>
Hong Kong Scions Complete $75M Purchase of Osaka Hotels From CapitaLand Ascott Trust
A property investment firm backed by some of Hong Kong’s wealthiest families has completed its acquisition of a trio of Osaka hotels from CapitaLand Ascott Trust, with Axe Management Partners having paid JPY 10.7 billion ($75 million) for the assets.
Lui Chong Chee to Chair CapitaLand Ascott Trust
CapitaLand Ascott Trust has appointed Lui Chong Chee as the next chairman of the Singapore-listed lodging REIT, succeeding the retiring Bob Tan.
Lui, who currently sits as a non-executive independent director, will take over the chairman’s seat on 22 April… Read More>>
CapitaLand Ascott Trust Selling Osaka Hotels to Alyssa-Managed Fund for $75M
CapitaLand Ascott Trust announced on Sunday that it will divest three hotels in Osaka for JPY 10.7 billion ($75 million) as part of what the Singapore-listed REIT described as a portfolio reconstitution effort.
CLAS said in a press release that… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2023-11-27
China’s sovereign fund leads Mingtiandi’s review of personnel moves from around Asia this week with news that CIC’s head of infrastructure has resigned from the Beijing-based organisation. Also making the list is a new CFO of Singapore’s Elite Commercial REIT… Read More>>
CapitaLand’s Ascott in Due Diligence to Buy Gaw Singapore Hotel
A lodging unit of CapitaLand Group is in due diligence to buy a hotel in Singapore’s Bugis area from Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners at a price potentially 28 percent less than the company’s target in a marketing exercise a… Read More>>
Singapore’s CapitaLand Ascott Trust Selling Pair of Sydney Hotels for $71M
CapitaLand Ascott Trust has agreed to sell two Sydney hotels for A$109 million ($71 million), as part of what the trust’s managers describe as a portfolio restructuring effort, following its September deal to sell four French assets.
Located outside of… Read More>>
Investor in Evergrande EV Unit Freezes Payments and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
A fresh setback in China Evergrande Group’s quest for solvency leads today’s list of real estate headlines from around Asia as a would-be investor in the company’s car unit freezes payments. Also in the news, Country Garden faces another bond… Read More>>