The game of musical chairs continued at mainland developers over the week, with China Fortune Land pilfering yet another executive from rival China Resources Land. Wu Xiangdong joined Yu Jian in leaving China Resources Land for China Fortune Land Development,… Read More>>
CFLD Aims to Join China’s Top Three Developers via Partnership with Ping An
Top ten mainland builder China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) this month announced that it is welcoming three senior executives from Ping An Insurance to take leading roles at the developer, just three months after the insurer paid RMB 13.8 billion… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2018-08-27
In today’s set of people moves from around Asia, a long-time private equity real estate executive finds himself carrying a new namecard after his division at Standard Chartered was acquired earlier this month, a mainland developer builds up the marketing… Read More>>
Ping An Ups CFLD Stake to 20% for $2B as Developers Scramble for Cash
A unit of Chinese financial giant Ping An is acquiring almost a fifth of China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) in the group’s third major acquisition of a stake in a top publicly listed developer in the last three years.
The RMB… Read More>>
Morgan Stanley Fund Buying Melbourne Tower Stake From TH and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Holy Week was a good time to get deals done for some of the region’s biggest real estate investors, with Morgan Stanley’s Asia core fund buying a Melbourne asset from TH Real Estate, and Blackstone teaming up with a Chinese… Read More>>
Country Garden Tops Evergrande to Take China’s 2017 Real Estate Sales Crown
Guangdong-based Country Garden achieved contracted sales of RMB 580.8 billion ($89.3 billion) in 2017 to oust billionaire Xu Jiayin’s Evergrande Real Estate from its position as China’s biggest selling developer and seize the title as mainland sales king, figures from… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2017-10-16
Leading this week’s roundup of high-profile job changes in Asia’s real estate industry, a veteran project manager has joined a London-based consultancy to grow its offices across north Asia. Meanwhile, a co-working expert is trying his hand at another hot… Read More>>
Li Ka-shing Buying Canadian HVAC Co for $2.1 Bil and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s news, Hong Kong’s “Superman” is flexing his financial muscle again as Cheung Kong Property agrees to buy a Canadian HVAC business for more than $2.1 billion. Also in the headlines, after the city of Beijing rolled out nearly… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2017-03-06
Big moves at a sovereign wealth fund and a NYSE-listed Chinese developer top the list of familiar faces in new places among the region’s real estate community this week, with ADIA’s head of real estate for Asia leading the way…. Read More>>
Evergrande China’s 2016 Sales King as Top Developers Boost Performance by 82%
Thanks to a year of super-charged real estate sales, Evergrande Group unseated 2015 champion China Vanke to become the mainland’s largest property developer by sales for 2016.
The shift in the top ranks of China’s homebuilders came as the three… Read More>>