A senior move at one of the UK’s largest asset managers leads this week’s review of personnel changes around Asia’s real estate world as M&G adds to its Singapore-based team. Also making the list are top-level turnover at financial regulators… Read More>>
ESR Gets Regulatory Nod for China REIT, Clearing Path for $340M Shanghai IPO
Hong Kong-listed ESR has received the go-ahead from China’s top securities regulator for the warehouse specialist’s inaugural mainland REIT, with the trust’s initial public offering expected to raise nearly RMB 2.44 billion ($340 million).
The China Securities Regulatory Commission approved… Read More>>
Evergrande Founder Xu Jiayin Banned From China Securities Market Over Fake Reports
A top mainland financial regulator has slapped China Evergrande’s founder and former chairman, Xu Jiayin, with a lifetime ban from the country’s securities market after concluding that the now-bankrupt developer reported two years of bogus results and issued bonds based… Read More>>
Mainland Regulators Query Wanda Group Over Hong Kong IPO Application
Chinese regulators have asked Dalian Wanda Commercial Management to provide additional details on its application for a Hong Kong initial public offering, fuelling worries over the ability of the country’s largest commercial developer to meet its listing deadline this year.
China Expands REIT Regime to Include Malls and Department Stores
China has expanded its pilot program for publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) to include shopping malls and other retail properties, as authorities continue to expand access to liquidity for companies in the property sector.
With the country’s public… Read More>>
Evergrande Hit With Winding-Up Petition and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, debt-stricken China Evergrande faces a winding-up petition in the Hong Kong high court, the Cheng family behind New World Development launches a buyout bid for fashion retailer Giordano, and Swedish clothier H&M closes… Read More>>
Will China’s Stock Collapse Mean Bad News for Its Real Estate Developers?
While a gradual recovery in property sales over the last three months seemed to have bailed out China’s real estate developers, the country’s home builders may have just been dunked back into deep water by a collapse in the country’s… Read More>>
Wanda Cinema to Raise RMB 1.26B in Shenzhen IPO
Wanda Cinema Line, the movie theatre operator belonging to billionaire property developer Wang Jianlin, has scaled back plans for its initial public offering on China’s Shenzhen exchange under instruction from Chinese regulators.
According to a report in Reuters this week,… Read More>>
Govt Reopens Approvals for Real Estate Share Sales
In another sign of the Chinese government’s determination to corral its unruly real estate market, two more developers received regulatory approval for new stock sales, during the same week that a private real estate developer collapsed after having exhausted… Read More>>