Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
JLL announced today that it has brought on board former Google executive Vinay Goel to serve as its first Chief Digital Product Officer, as the international property consultancy continues to bet on the online future of real estate.
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Singapore’s sales of new homes residential sales plummeted 41.7 percent in June compared to July, with the slump in transaction volumes coming just before city authorities boosted the stamp duty on home purchases by as much as 50 percent as… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Lai Sun Group has won approval to develop a 56-storey office tower on London’s Leadenhall Street, after tycoon Peter Lam’s textiles-to-property group had purchased a pair of existing properties on the same block as London’s Gherkin office tower… Read More>>
In what would be its first Singapore deal, UK property developer Chelsfield is said to be closing in on an acquisition of the Manulife Centre on Singapore’s Bras Basah Road in the latest sign of ongoing growth in the city-state’s… Read More>>
China’s largest property developer by sales is reportedly retreating from an expansion program that aimed to give it a presence across the nation’s third, fourth and fifth-tier cities in the face of tightening credit conditions and an ongoing government crackdown… Read More>>
A Chinese online-to-offline (O2O) coffee startup is claiming a $1 billion valuation, and unicorn status, after raising $200 million from a group that includes Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC.
Beijing-based Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡), which combines mobile apps, WeChat integration and… Read More>>
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has struck yet another deal with its favorite mainland developer, Longfor Group Holdings, as the Canadian pension fund manager and the Beijing-based builder today announced an agreement to jointly invest at least $817 million in… Read More>>
Since the end of June China has moved to clamp down further on housing speculation as the government shows its determination to enforce President Xi Jinping’s vow at last year’s party congress that, “homes are for living, not for flipping.”
Extending its antipodean buying spree, Logos Property has agreed to acquire a 10-hectare site in Auckland to develop a 55,000-square-metre logistics facility. The deal, the first in the country for the regional warehouse developer, comes after a rush of transactions… Read More>>
A unit of Chinese financial giant Ping An is acquiring almost a fifth of China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) in the group’s third major acquisition of a stake in a top publicly listed developer in the last three years.
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