Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
CLSA Capital Partners is reportedly close to selling Zing!, a retail tower in the heart of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district, for HK$1.9 billion ($243 million) to a Macau-based consortium.
The Hong Kong-based alternative asset manager is expected to… Read More>>
Singapore leads the news again today as the city’s fifth housing project this week goes up for collective sale. Slightly further south in Melbourne, a Chinese developer continues to buy up suburban sites and Sunac’s Sun Hongbin reaches a bit… Read More>>
Tycoon Tang Shing-bor has sold a pair of buildings next to Hong Kong’s popular Times Square shopping mall for a total of HK$950 million ($122 million), paving the way for the rare parcel in Causeway Bay to be redeveloped… Read More>>
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel group has begun to receive offers for the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, with at least five bids reportedly valuing the four-star waterfront property at HK$30 billion ($3.8 billion).
If the 848-room Excelsior is… Read More>>
CLSA Capital Partners has sold Zing!, a 27-storey retail centre in the heart of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay retail district, for HK$2.1 billion ($268.6 million).
The undisclosed buyer is reported to have paid for Zing! by selling The L. Plaza,… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel group began testing buyer interest in the Excelsior Hotel in the city’s Causeway Bay district for a sale that could bring the Jardines-owned luxury hotel brand as much as HK$27 billion ($3.4 billion).
The London… Read More>>
Shops may be closing due to disappointing sales in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay area, but the glitzy shopping street still hung onto its rank as the second-most expensive place to rent a shop in the world, behind only New York’s… Read More>>
Rents in China’s most expensive shopping district rose by more than nine percent in the last year, but the increase was only enough for Beijing’s Wangfujing to keep its ranking as the world’s 13th most expensive place to open a… Read More>>
The new record for most valuable commercial property in Asia belongs to 12 square metre (130 square foot) shop in Hong Kong’s trendy Causeway Bay shopping district.
The non-descript electronics shop at 77-83 Matheson Street near the popular Times Square… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s retailing landscape is changing. With the competition for space in the city’s traditional retail districts–Central, Causeway Bay, Tsimshatsui and Mongkok–driving rents to eye-watering levels, foreign retailers are increasingly shifting their focus to shopping centres in the New Territories. Fast fashion brands such as Uniqlo, Gap, H&M and Zara have been leading the trend but others are following.
In addition to capturing a share of the growing Mainland-shopper market, retailer interest is also being attracted by growing local populations resulting from the completion of new residential developments.
