Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Less than a week after Hong Kong relaxed mortgage lending rules, Singapore has moved in the opposite direction by imposing further cooling measures to tame buyer demand in the city-state’s red-hot housing market.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore will raise… Read More>>
Canada’s QuadReal Property Group and Singapore-based IGIS Asia Investment Management have formed a $1 billion joint venture to develop logistics assets in South Korea, home to IGIS AIM’s parent group.
QuadReal will provide the majority of the JV’s capital, with… Read More>>
ESR Group is acquiring a minority stake in the manager of ESR-Logos REIT from Japan’s Mitsui & Co as the Hong Kong-listed logistics giant takes virtually full control of the entity just four months after the enlarged trust was formed… Read More>>
Samsung Group continued to demonstrate its appetite for real asset investments this week with two of its financial services units announcing a combined $650 million commitment to funds managed by private equity titan Blackstone.
Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire… Read More>>
China’s property crisis continues to spread with CIFI Holdings, a Shanghai-based developer which has received government support in securing new financing, disclosing this week that it has defaulted on an onshore trust loan.
Credit intelligence provider Reorg reported Wednesday that… Read More>>
Li Ka-shing’s CK Asset has agreed to sell its 21 Borrett Road project in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels for HK$20.8 billion ($2.6 billion) to a private wealth manager founded by former UBS bankers, in a sudden asset disposal by the city’s… Read More>>
Hong Kong investor JY Group has added to its collection of Australian retail assets by picking up a 50 percent stake in a suburban Sydney mall for A$120.5 million ($78.2 million).
JY Group purchased its half-interest in the Carlingford Court… Read More>>
Mirae Asset Global Investments’ $3 billion purchase of the International Finance Center Seoul has fallen apart, with the Korean asset manager now pursuing arbitration against Brookfield Asset Management, the owner of the commercial complex, in an attempt to retrieve a… Read More>>
More than 170 attendees have now booked tickets to the Mingtiandi Singapore Focus Forum, an Asia real estate investment conference bringing together representatives of the biggest pension funds, sovereign funds, general partners and developers, which is coming up on 18… Read More>>
Private equity major Warburg Pincus has formed a joint venture with Singapore-based Evolution Data Centres to develop hyperscale facilities throughout Southeast Asia.
EDC was founded last year with its management team having previously deployed over 640 megawatts of capacity and led… Read More>>
