Dalian Wanda boss Wang Jianlin has been forced to scale back his ambitions and sell off overseas and non-core assets in the past two years, but his flagship real estate operation still has more than twice the operating revenue of… Read More>>
GIC-CapitaLand JV Buying Shanghai Mixed-Use Project for $1.85B
Singapore’s CapitaLand announced on Tuesday that its Raffles City China Investment Partners III (RCCIP III) fund has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC to acquire the Star Harbour International Center project (上海星外滩) in Shanghai’s Hongkou… Read More>>
CapitaLand Buys Guangzhou Project for RMB 882M and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Singapore’s CapitaLand dominates the region’s real estate headlines today with news of its acquisition of a site in Guangzhou, being released on the same day that the developer confirmed a joint venture with GIC for an acquisition in Shanghai. Elsewhere… Read More>>
Office Rents Set to Slide in Hong Kong’s Central and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
The downdraft slowing Hong Kong’s home sales may have finally reached the city’s famously-expensive office market as one of the leading property consultancies is now predicting a drop off in office prices in Central in 2019. Also making news today,… Read More>>
CapitaLand Said Buying Project in Shanghai’s Hongkou District for $1.85B
Singapore’s CapitaLand is reportedly investing at least RMB 12.79 billion ($1.85 billion) to acquire its most expensive real estate project yet in mainland China, according to accounts in the mainland media.
Southeast Asia’s largest developer would be paying the record… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2018-08-20
Asia’s community of property pros continues to be on the move in August with a Hong Kong real estate fund manager claiming back one of its former team members, and an industrial developer dipping into the brokerage talent pool as… Read More>>
CapitaLand in $297M Guangzhou Residential Buy Near Foxconn Mega-Project
Singapore’s CapitaLand is acquiring two adjacent Guangzhou residential sites totalling 150,000 square metres (1.6 million square feet) for RMB 2.05 billion ($297 million). The purchases are in the Zengcheng District of the city, an up and coming area being targeting… Read More>>
HNA Pawns HK$506M Peak Mansion for Short-Term Loan and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Hangovers suffered from China’s cross-border buying binge dominate the real estate news across the region today, with familiar players HNA, Country Garden and CCCC taking leading roles in some financial drama. A day after HNA reported the untimely death of… Read More>>
CapitaLand Grabs $864M Chongqing Site – Adds 2,100 Homes to China Pipeline
Singaporean developer CapitaLand is ramping up its presence in the western Chinese municipality of Chongqing, buying a RMB 5.7 billion ($864 million) mixed-use site that will be turned into a retail, office and residential property yielding over 2,100 homes.
The… Read More>>
Google Bets on JD.com with $550M Retail Deal and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s roundup, Google is ramping up its retail investments in China as it aims to counter internet behemoth Alibaba, by ploughing over half a billion dollars into e-commerce titan JD.com. Also in the headlines, China’s home prices and property… Read More>>
