Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Butterfly on Prat, a 158-room hotel in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui area, has reportedly changed hands for HK$980 million ($123 million) as the local tourism collapse compels smaller lodging operators to sell their assets to redevelopment-minded investors.
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The family of late “Shop King” Tang Shing-bor has sold a second New Territories industrial asset to China Resources Group, as the cash crisis of one of Hong Kong’s most active real estate investors creates an opportunity for the mainland… Read More>>
Warburg Pincus-backed Weave Living has agreed to purchase a Kai Tak hotel as its sixth Hong Kong property, spending close to HK$390 million ($50 million) for the asset as the multi-family residential specialist continues to expand its portfolio.
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Hong Kong’s commercial property market got a jolt Thursday after a report broke that Hopewell Holdings, controlled by billionaire Gordon Wu, had agreed to sell the Kowloonbay International Trade and Exhibition Centre for HK$10 billion ($1.3 billion).
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A busy deal-making period in Asia continued for Blackstone this week, as the US private equity giant became the latest investment group to acquire a building in Hong Kong’s redevelopment hotbed of Kowloon East.
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A set of deals announced at the end of March points to a continued thawing of Hong Kong’s property investment market and heightened prospects for urban redevelopment projects in the city.
Hanison Construction, controlled by the Cha family behind developer… Read More>>
Hong Kong Resorts International is taking on its second redevelopment project in the last four months after the developer of Discovery Bay agreed to acquire a site at the western edge of Central district for a combined HK$367.3 million ($47.3… Read More>>
A Hong Kong redevelopment specialist has teamed up with a local private equity firm to buy up 57 Kowloon properties in preparation for a HK$1.1 billion ($142 million) mixed-use project, according to an announcement today.
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SilkRoad Property Partners has acquired a cold-storage building in Fanling, an industrial area which is becoming a hotspot for alternative investments in Hong Kong’s New Territories.
Having just closed on $549 million in fresh capital last month, SilkRoad paid HK$321… Read More>>
Commercial property investment in key APAC markets staged a comeback in last year’s fourth quarter, led by resurgent Hong Kong, where transaction volume shot up 168 percent compared with year-earlier levels, according to Real Capital Analytics.
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