Singapore’s CDL is back in the news again today after it appears to have achieved its mission of buying out a London-listed hotel chain already controlled by the property firm. Also grabbing some air time is mainland media darling and… Read More>>
Singapore’s CDL and Friends Acquire Frankfurt Hotel for $100M
With investors from China still hobbled by that country’s restrictions on capital outflows, the mainland slowdown is leaving the stage open for buyers from one of Asia’s smallest nations to land deals in a growing list of locations.
Today, the… Read More>>
CDL China Sells Stake in Chongqing Projects to Vanke and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s news, Singapore’s CDL is selling off stakes in two of its western China residential projects to Vanke, while 37 developers, including China’s HNA Group, have submitted bids for a site on southern Hong Kong island. Speaking of HNA,… Read More>>
Mainland Projects Set to Dominate Swire Portfolio and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
At the top of today’s news, one of Hong Kong’s best known developers is fast becoming a mainland builder, as Swire gets ready to open the second phase of its HKRI Taikoo project in Shanghai. Also in the news, Hong… Read More>>
Chinese Estates Builds HK$27B Evergrande Stake and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Joseph Lau’s Chinese Estates got some good news this week as the developer’s stake in China Evergrande now is worth more than its own Hong Kong market cap. Also in the headlines, China’s suppression of housing demand means that sales… Read More>>
Singapore’s CDL Offers to Buy Out Millennium & Copthorne Hotels in $822M Deal
Singaporean property heavyweight City Developments Limited (CDL) has offered to buy out the outside investors in its Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, in a deal that values the London-listed global hotelier at £1.8 billion ($2.4 billion).
CDL, which already holds a… Read More>>
Singapore’s Hong Leong Group Buys East Coast Housing Block for $667M
The Singapore housing market is on the rebound and one of the southeast Asian financial hub’s biggest development groups has bought out the residents of a 200-unit housing block on the island city’s east coast to add to its project… Read More>>
Co-Working Startup Distrii Raises $30M in Jingrui, CDL-Led Series A Round
China’s burgeoning co-working sector just got another burst of cash, with Shanghai-based shared office startup Distrii closing on a RMB 200 million ($30 million) round of financing from a group of global investors.
Singapore’s City Developments Limited (CDL) and California-based… Read More>>
Sherman Kwek Replacing Grant Kelley as CDL Chief Executive
Grant Kelley has stepped down as CEO of City Developments Limited (CDL), the Singapore-listed property heavyweight, and will be replaced by Sherman Kwek, the elder son of CDL chairman Kwek Leng Beng.
The family led company, which is one of… Read More>>
Singapore’s CDL Goes Deutsch with $112M Munich Hotel Buy
A trust affiliated with City Developments Limited (CDL), the Singaporean property heavyweight, is taking its first piece of continental Europe’s real estate market by buying the Pullman Hotel Munich for €98.9 million (about $112.3 million), the company announced this week.