Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Allianz Real Estate has agreed to purchase a portfolio of residential assets in Tokyo for $90 million, marking the first acquisition on behalf of its recently upsized Japan multifamily fund.
The portfolio consists of 12 newly built assets comprising more… Read More>>
Canada’s Manulife Investment Management and Tokyo-based Kenedix have agreed to form a JPY 19.8 billion ($170 million) joint venture to acquire multi-family assets in Japan’s major cities.
The JV will be seeded with a portfolio of nine properties, including four… Read More>>
Hong Kong-based fund manager Gaw Capital Partners on Friday announced that, together with US investment management firm Invesco, it has completed the $3 billion privatisation of Invesco Office J-REIT.
The deal, which was led by Invesco Asia Fund IV, represents… Read More>>
AEW Capital Management has acquired a portfolio of four newly completed residential buildings with a combined 177 units in Greater Tokyo, signalling conviction in multi-family as one of the firm’s key investment themes in Asia.
The assets are located in… Read More>>
Singapore-based Digital Edge has acquired five data centres in Japan for $230 million, nearly doubling the firm’s total capacity in the country to 38 megawatts.
With the transaction, the startup backed by Manhattan-based private equity shop Stonepeak added a further… Read More>>
US developer Hines has made its first-ever acquisition in Japan on behalf of its flagship pan-Asian fund, picking up a Yokohama office tower for an undisclosed amount.
The 1993-vintage New Stage Yokohama has a gross floor area of 50,304 square… Read More>>
Advertising giant Dentsu Group has moved a step closer to notching Japan’s largest-ever sale of a single building as the company proceeds with a plan to sell its Tokyo headquarters for as much as $3 billion, Mingtiandi has learned.
The… Read More>>
French financial services giant AXA is moving farther afield in search of yield in Japan’s rental residential sector, with the company announcing this week that it has acquired a pair of apartment towers in the city of Sendai.
AXA IM… Read More>>
Singapore-based ARA Asset Management announced Friday that it had increased its equity stake in Japanese fund manager Kenedix to 30 percent, up from 20.27 percent previously.
ARA had earlier supported the privatisation and buyout of Kenedix by Sumitomo Mitsui Finance… Read More>>
Private equity-backed internet infrastructure startup Digital Edge has agreed to acquire two fully operational data centres in Tokyo to add 7MW of capacity to its growing collection of facilities in Asia Pacific.
The Singapore-based data centre operator, backed by New… Read More>>
