Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Singapore-based urban development consultancy Surbana Jurong has acquired Australian competitor SMEC Holdings for approximately $297 million, according to a joint statement by the two companies.
The acquisition by the subsidiary of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings will create a 10,000 person consultancy… Read More>>
Brexit may already being paying dividends for London – provided that the goal of the historic decision to leave the European Union was to make the UK’s capital look cheaper than New York and Hong Kong.
After sitting atop the… Read More>>
Hong Kong-listed real estate investment trust Champion REIT raised its distributions per unit for the first half of 2016 by 15 percent compared to the same period last year, following solid growth in rental income from its portfolio of commercial… Read More>>
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin has big plans for building a movie business empire, but that golden future looks a bit further off after the tycoon’s Dalian Wanda Group announced an indefinite delay in the incorporating Legendary Picture into its mainland-listed… Read More>>
China’s Anbang Insurance has apparently rekindled its passion for hotels with the mainland financial upstart reportedly preparing a $7 billion bid for the FTSE-listed Intercontinental Hotels Group.
Anbang, which became famous for its $1.95 billion acquisition of New York’s Waldorf… Read More>>
Shanghai Municipal Investment (SMI), the developer of the 128-storey Shanghai Tower, is said to be partnering with New York’s Extell Development on a $2.98 billion project in Manhattan.
Documents filed in Delaware, and reported by The Real Deal, indicate that… Read More>>
The highly touted Wuhan Wanda Movie Park, owned by China’s largest real estate company, the Dalian Wanda Group, has closed for “upgrades and renovation” just 19 months after the grand opening of the RMB 7 billion ($1.05 billion) attraction. The… Read More>>
Gemdale Corp has taken the title of China’s new ‘land king’ as the developer outbid more than 20 rivals to pay RMB 8.8 billion ($1.3 billion) for a 140,252 square-meter parcel of land in Shanghai last week.
The Shanghai-listed company’s… Read More>>
China’s richest man may have just gotten a bit poorer after Internet giants Tencent and Baidu apparently walked away from a $3 billion ecommerce joint venture with Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda group.
Just two years ago, Wang was trumpeting the… Read More>>
Hong Kong-listed Future Land Development plans to sell high-end units at its new project in Shanghai’s Hongkou district for RMB 120,000 per square meter, representing more than a 20 percent premium over current selling prices in the area.
“There is… Read More>>
