Sekisui House has agreed to acquire US builder MDC Holdings for $4.95 billion with the deal set to make the Japanese developer the fifth largest homebuilder in the world’s biggest economy.
The Japanese firm said on Thursday that it will… Read More>>
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Sekisui House has agreed to acquire US builder MDC Holdings for $4.95 billion with the deal set to make the Japanese developer the fifth largest homebuilder in the world’s biggest economy.
The Japanese firm said on Thursday that it will… Read More>>

The chief executive of Asia’s biggest listed property trust sees the region’s beaten-down REITs staging a turnaround this year if interest rates ease as expected.
A stabilised interest rate and economic environment will support a recovery in REIT valuations, Link… Read More>>

Investment in Singapore real estate is expected to jump 10 percent this year to as much as S$23 billion ($17.1 billion), driven by residential and retail transactions, according to Savills.
The bullish forecast takes into account rising activity in government… Read More>>

Singapore’s transport minister S. Iswaran on Thursday was slapped with 27 charges, including two counts of corruption related to assisting Ong Beng Seng, co-founder of SGX-listed Hotel Properties Ltd, to secure agreements for one of his companies with the country’s… Read More>>

A site in Singapore’s western suburbs fetched richer offers than a plot in the city-state’s downtown on Thursday, as interest rates put prime land outside of the reach of many developers and home purchase restrictions crimp the market for high-end… Read More>>

Realterm has acquired a Sydney outdoor storage facility under its logistics joint venture with Swiss private equity firm Partners Group, marking the US investment manager’s first acquisition in Australia.
The asset provides 41,490 square metres (446,595 square feet) of industrial… Read More>>

Investors in Asia Pacific are more likely to boost their real estate exposure over the next two years than investors in other regions, with industrial and residential assets in Japan and Australia among their top targets, according to the results… Read More>>

A Singapore developer controlled by the family of Shangri-La Hotel founder Robert Kuok is in talks to acquire a shopping centre in northeastern Singapore from a joint venture between Temasek Holdings-backed Cuscaden Peak and Yanlord Land’s United Engineers Ltd (UEL)… Read More>>

US private equity firm General Atlantic has agreed to acquire London-based Actis for an undisclosed price, creating a global investment platform with $96 billion in combined assets under management, the companies announced Tuesday.
Actis, which has raised $25 billion in… Read More>>

A joint venture of Digital Realty, Brookfield Asset Management and India’s Reliance Industries has unveiled its inaugural data centre project in India to tap growing demand for digital infrastructure in the world’s most populous nation.
Austin-based Digital Realty, which bills… Read More>>