Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
CEFC China Energy emerged from obscurity to buy up a horde of overseas assets from energy firms to European real estate. Now the ambitious but secretive mainland conglomerate is in trouble.
The head of CEFC has reportedly been detained for… Read More>>
Chinese insurers’ $15 billion overseas real estate shopping spree may go on the endangered list, as the country’s insurance regulator reprimanded three major insurers for illicit cross-border investments Saturday. The move is part of the regulator’s efforts in reining in… Read More>>
The purchase of the $1 billion Metropolis project by China’s Greenland Group in 2013 was one of the early milestones in an outbound real estate investment wave that put the Shanghai-based developer onto a global stage, beside co-stars such as… Read More>>
The Chinese government now has direct control of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, as the country’s insurance regulator formally takes over the hotel’s embattled owner, Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group.
Anbang, which had scooped up the famed Manhattan property… Read More>>
Blackstone Group was a primary supplier to Anbang Insurance Group’s headlong effort to become one of China’s biggest buyers of overseas assets. Stephen Schwarzman’s alternative investment giant sold no less than $9.5 billion in real estate and shares to the… Read More>>
Guangzhou-based Poly Real Estate Group has won its first residential project in the UK, purchasing a site in the north London suburb of Mill Hill where it plans to build 706 homes.
Poly UK, the local subsidiary of the state-owned… Read More>>
Chinese developers from Greenland to Wanda may be choking on their overseas property projects, but Shenzhen-based rival Gemdale could be in line for a big payday as it puts a newly completed, fully leased San Francisco office building on the… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda Group continues to scale back its overseas empire, selling its flagship billion-dollar London project for £59 million ($81.5 million) just under four years after buying the site in south London’s Vauxhall area for £88.8 million.
Two units of the… Read More>>
A government clampdown on outbound investment has stifled many of China’s biggest buyers of overseas real estate, but Greenland Holdings is bucking the trend by going nearly all-in on its joint venture to develop part of a $5 billion New… Read More>>
A Blackstone property fund is buying back a 10 percent stake in European warehouse platform Logicor, which the private equity giant sold to China Investment Corporation (CIC) for $13.8 billion earlier this year, according to a news report.
CIC, China’s… Read More>>
