Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
China’s overseas acquisition drive has suffered another blow amid scrutiny by foreign regulators, with the Canadian government rejecting the proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of Aecon Group, one of Canada’s largest builders, by state-owned CCCC International Holding Limited (CCCI).
Canada’s national… Read More>>
A retail unit of blue-chip developer Henderson Land is acquiring Japanese retailer FamilyMart Uny Holdings Co’s operations in Hong Kong for HK$300 million ($38 million), expanding Henderson’s department store business to Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
The Henderson subsidiary, Urban… Read More>>
Global sportswear brand FILA has relaunched its flagship store in Shanghai, celebrating the opening of its largest retail space in Greater China. The expanded and upgraded venue in the Mosaic Shanghai mall on East Nanjing Road now covers 867 square metres… Read More>>
The Carlyle Group, the world’s top private equity firm in terms of fundraising, is boosting its Southeast Asia team with two senior hires in Jakarta and Singapore.
Carlyle has hired Robby Winarta as Managing Director and Long Hoang as Director… Read More>>
Carrefour has opened its first-ever smart supermarket in Shanghai in partnership with Tencent, four months after the parent company of China’s ubiquitous WeChat app bought a stake in the French retailer. The Le Marche store in China’s commercial capital is… Read More>>
Kr Space, the co-working spinoff of Alibaba-backed technology platform 36Kr, has picked Hong Kong for its first centre outside of mainland China, leasing seven stories in the One Hennessy office building in Wan Chai while it looks to open other… Read More>>
Asia Pacific is leading the global surge in flexible offices, with total co-working and serviced office space in the region soaring 150 percent from 2014 to 2017, according to a new report by property consultancy JLL.
During those three years,… Read More>>
One of China’s most troubled cross-border investors became the mainland’s latest default story this month as a unit of China CEFC Energy informed the Shanghai stock exchange that it had failed to fulfill obligations for bond payments totalling RMB 2.09… Read More>>
GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has formed a joint venture to acquire a stake in a high tech office portfolio in the Playa Vista area of western Los Angeles, according to a statement today by the $100 billion government investment… Read More>>
Singapore-listed property firm UOL Group and its affiliates have won a large residential parcel on Silat Avenue, just south of Singapore’s General Hospital, for S$1.035 billion ($771 million), amid a two-day flurry of major site acquisitions in the city-state.
The… Read More>>
