Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Fosun Property Holdings, the real estate arm of China’s biggest private investment firm, signalled its interest in acquiring more assets in Europe today by announcing a new joint venture with UK-based Resolution Property.
The joint venture company is to be… Read More>>
LaSalle Investment Management announced this week that Phillip Ling, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, has retired from the real estate investment firm as of June 30th.
The leadership transition means that Mark Gabbay will now be LaSalle’s sole CEO in… Read More>>
Shanghai ranked as the top Chinese city for real estate investment for the third year in a row, according to survey results released recently by the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
Despite what the real estate industry professional organisation referred to as rising… Read More>>
Colliers International announced on Friday that it has brought over Nigel Smith from rival CBRE to become its new managing director in charge of its Hong Kong business.
The hire of Smith, who formerly managed CBRE’s office leasing services for… Read More>>
Chinese has already become famous for its wealthy buyers of overseas homes, and now one of its most famous billionaires has purchased a 28,100 acre (11,371 hectare) estate in New York that formerly belonged to the Rockefeller family.
Jack Ma,… Read More>>
Hong Kong-based developer Chongbang Group closed a $920 million round of fund raising this week with Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge and Dutch pension-fund manager APG taking leading roles in the investment.
Chongbang focuses on the Shanghai market and began making its… Read More>>
Chinese buyers bought more US homes, for more money, than any other foreign investors last year, as China’s wave of outbound investment continues to spread globally.
Home buyers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan together purchased $28.6 billion worth… Read More>>
New home prices climbed in 20 out of 70 major Chinese cities last month compared to April, as the country’s home market continues to see signs of recovery after a year-long slide.
Among the 70 urban centres surveyed each month… Read More>>
China Vanke, which made its name as the country’s biggest builder of mid-market homes, is continuing continued to diversify its business by opening its first two warehouse projects.
The two projects, in Guiyang and Wuhan total more than 175,000 square… Read More>>
China’s new home sales rose by 30 percent in May, as government moves to cut interest rates and remove home purchase restrictions appear to have succeeded in luring buyers back into the market.
The nation’s property developers seem less convinced… Read More>>
