Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Global architecture firms Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) and Heatherwick Studio have won a bid to design the next major extension for Singapore’s Changi Airport, the sixth-busiest air hub in the world.
The two firms along with Singapore’s Architects 61… Read More>>
The Beijing government has retroactively restricted the height of buildings in a prime plot of the city’s core business district to as low as 100 metres, truncating the building heights and potential investment returns of developers who purchased more than… Read More>>
Stuart Grant, who leads asset management for Blackstone Real Estate’s investments in Asia Pacific, will be stepping down from the US alternative investment giant to join London-focused developer Stanhope Plc as Managing Director later this year.
Grant currently serves as… Read More>>
CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) has sold the Sembawang Shopping Centre for S$248 million ($189 million), generating a net gain for the Singapore-listed real estate trust of S$119.6 million ($91 million), according to a statement to the stock exchange on Thursday.
Vietnam’s Vingroup has raised $1.3 billion from Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC as the country’s largest real estate developer prepares to list its luxury residential arm, Vinhomes JSC on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange.
Vingroup, which last year listed… Read More>>
Morgan Stanley is entering China’s rental housing market for the first time by engaging in a $100 million fundraising round for a Chinese rental apartment operator. The investment by the 83-year-old US investment bank follows similar deals by compatriots including… Read More>>
Two major buyouts have been announced in Asia’s self-storage industry in the past two weeks involving cash of more than $50 million, as the niche investment sector grows in popularity with the region’s property investors.
Private equity firm InfraRed NF… Read More>>
Global design firm Benoy has won a competition to serve as masterplanner and architect for a 367,000 square metre research and commercial hub near the east bank of Shanghai’s Huangpu River. Benoy will work with local developer Shanghai Lujiazui Group… Read More>>
Chinese property tycoon Sun Hongbin said he had never regretted anything until he blew $2 billion backing Jia Yueting’s troubled conglomerate LeEco. But the teary-eyed confession by the chairman of Sunac Holdings doesn’t seem to have given rival property baron… Read More>>
Nearly six months after Li Ka-shing’s CK Asset Holdings sold Hong Kong’s The Center skyscraper to a consortium of investors for HK$40.2 billion ($5.15 billion), the world’s most expensive office building is poised to be divvied up among its new owners… Read More>>
