Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China’s online retail giants continued their invasion of the physical shopping world this past week as a fashion ecommerce player backed by Tencent and JD.com agreed to buy an outlet mall chain for RMB 2.9 billion ($422 million).
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Retail leads the way in Mingtiandi’s roundup of Asia real estate headlines today with the news that a China footwear retailer that partners with Nike and Adidas has filed for an initial public offering with a target of $1 billion,… Read More>>
Singapore home sales lead the way in Mingtiandi’s roundup of Asia real estate headlines today after deals for new housing took a 30 percent jump, while a Chinese e-commerce giant and a large mainland developer are among the shortlisted bidders… Read More>>
Alibaba is in talks to acquire a portion of the China operations of German retailer Metro, according to a Thursday report by Reuters, as the company that handles nearly 60 percent of China’s online shopping continues to look for ways… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda has sold 37 department stores to Chinese retailer Suning.com for an amount estimated to be less than RMB 8 billion ($1.18 billion) as China’s largest commercial developer continues a two-year sell off of overseas and non-core assets after… Read More>>
China’s COFCO Group is merging a pair of real estate developers with a combined market cap of $4.7 billion dollars as the state-owned conglomerate follows through on restructuring plans related to state-owned enterprise reform and cross-border transactions first announced in… Read More>>
Chinese consumers bought RMB 4.88 trillion ($760 billion) in products online during the first three quarters of last year — roughly equivalent to the annual GDP of the Netherlands — as many shoppers now routinely buy groceries and other daily… Read More>>
Top homebuilder China Vanke and its commercial property platform SCP Group (SCPG) have entered a deal to buy a portfolio of 20 mainland shopping malls from Singapore’s CapitaLand for RMB 8.37 billion ($1.3 billion). The two parties are teaming up… Read More>>
The Asian arm of US mall operator Taubman Centers has won recognition for the launch of its second Chinese shopping centre, which drew on everything from magic shows to partnerships with mobile ride-sharing platforms to lure shoppers to the new… Read More>>
A couple of heavy hitters in Hong Kong are having a less than stellar start to the week. Shenzhen shopkeepers are not happy with tycoon Li Ka-shing and claim they have been cheated by his CK Hutchison Holdings. Meanwhile, elected… Read More>>
