Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
A Hong Kong laminate maker has headed back to London to buy the Canary Wharf headquarters of financial consulting firm KPMG.
Hong Kong-listed Kingboard Chemical Holdings (KCH) has agreed to buy 15 Canada Square from KPMG and its real estate… Read More>>
Many of Asia’s largest property developers and investors still conduct their business using tools that haven’t changed dramatically since the popularisation of the spreadsheet thirty years ago. That old school way of life may be under threat, however, as investors… Read More>>
Asia’s fast-growing flexible office sector has chalked up another merger, with Shanghai-based naked Hub acquiring local rival Raise Office, a co-working operator with four centres in the mainland financial hub.
Through the recently announced deal, the set of Raise Office… Read More>>
Some of Asia’s largest economies rely on real estate for up to 20 percent of their GDP, making the sector an attractive target for technology startups and tech-enabled real estate firms.
Despite this push for innovation, however, some of the… Read More>>
Hong Kong private equity shop Gaw Capital Partners has agreed to sell the Cross Tower, a 24-storey commercial building in Shanghai, to a mainland real estate fund for a price believed to be RMB 2.66 billion ($402 million).
Gaw is… Read More>>
A Blackstone property fund is buying back a 10 percent stake in European warehouse platform Logicor, which the private equity giant sold to China Investment Corporation (CIC) for $13.8 billion earlier this year, according to a news report.
CIC, China’s… Read More>>
Commercial real estate developer Joy City Property is selling the W Hotel Beijing Chang’an to a Shanghai-based fund for a total of RMB 2 billion ($302 million), according to an announcement to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday by… Read More>>
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is making its first foray into Asian real estate, by buying a majority stake in a set of five retail and office properties in Tokyo for 92.75 billion yen ($823 million).
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM),… Read More>>
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is expanding its Asia logistics partnership with Australia’s Goodman by investing HK$1.94 billion ($248 million) in a Hong Kong warehouse development scheme first established by the Australian builder in 2006.
The investment will… Read More>>
With investors from China still hobbled by that country’s restrictions on capital outflows, the mainland slowdown is leaving the stage open for buyers from one of Asia’s smallest nations to land deals in a growing list of locations.
Today, the… Read More>>
