Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Mainland state-owned conglomerate China Resources is said to have snapped up one of Hong Kong’s most prestigious home sites, and has set a land price record in the process.
The Shenzhen-based giant, which invests in businesses from retail to energy… Read More>>
After a year of sizzling price increase, Hong Kong’s housing market leads the news today with signs of a cool down. Also in the headlines, a strata-titled office floor has changed hands and the city’s housing crisis may get some… Read More>>
The suburbs of Shanghai saw nearly RMB 13.05 billion ($1.99 billion) of residential land change hands this past week, as the city seeks to boost new apartment supply to bring relief to its housing-hungry population.
The nearly two billion dollar… Read More>>
A brief calm in the ongoing battle between Vanke founder Wang Shi and the company’s largest shareholder, Baoneng Group, was broken today when an independent member of the Chinese developer’s board confirmed that Baoneng’s Vanke share purchases had been funded… Read More>>
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund homes to find buried treasure in America’s trailer parks, while China’s SWF plucks a new chief from the Shanghai government. Meanwhile, Greentown has a Hong Kong IPO for you, and much more if you just read… Read More>>
The battle for control of China Vanke, the mainland’s largest property developer, has become an all-out war as the company’s largest shareholder has filed a motion to remove chairman Wang Shi and nearly all of the company’s board. The move… Read More>>
China Vanke’s RMB 45.6 billion ($6.9 billion) bid to escape a ‘hostile takeover’ from its largest shareholder has been jeopardized after a recently signed agreement apparently failed to get enough votes from the Shenzhen-based developer’s board of directors.
In a… Read More>>
While real estate deal watchers have been focusing on Anbang’s bid(s) for Starwood, back on the mainland the dramatic struggle to control China’s largest property developer took an unexpected twist today. Also a Chinese mall developer hopes to raise big… Read More>>
China’s insurance giants have featured in news of overseas real estate acquisitions this year, but now appear to be raising their investments in the mainland’s property market as well.
During the past week Anbang Insurance, which became famous internationally for… Read More>>
The changing conditions in China’s real estate market seems to have spurred a surge of deals with Fosun making a play in Greece, developers shoring up their finances, and the first international acquisition made through Shanghai’s new free trade zone.
