Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Facebook has chosen Singapore as the site of its first billion-dollar data center in Asia. The region is home to the tech giant’s fastest growing market and hosts 40 percent of Facebook’s 2.23 billion monthly active users.
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The redevelopment trend in Hong Kong’s largest logistics hub continues to heat up as an unnamed investor bought a 53,000 square metre industrial facility at 2-16 Lam Tin Street in Kwai Chung district for HK$770 million ($98 million), according to… Read More>>
Data centre developer Global Switch Limited announced last week that a consortium of Chinese investors including AVIC Trust and Hong Kong affiliates of China Citic Bank, Haoyue Capital and Jiangsu Sha Steel have agreed to pay £2.1 billion ($2.78 billion)… Read More>>
An investor known better for his political involvement than his investment projects finds his way back into the news today as Australian-Chinese real estate developer turned political donor Huang Xiangmo closes on the purchase of A$2.8 billion in real estate… Read More>>
Singapore-listed Keppel DC REIT has entered a deal to buy a data centre in the city-state for S$295 million ($221 million), as Singapore’s thriving market for outsourced data storage posts 13 percent annual revenue growth.
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The manager of Keppel DC REIT, which owns more than one million square feet of data centre space, has appointed Christina Tan as chairman of the board of directors of the Singapore-listed trust, effective Wednesday.
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A group of investors led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is betting $800 million that the US will need more storage space for an exponentially growing universe of data.
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Singaporean property group Mapletree has become the latest global investor to bet on building homes for data clouds, buying a portfolio of 14 US data centres for $750 million.
A joint venture of Mapletree Investments and Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT),… Read More>>
Tapping into the burgeoning demand for data storage, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is partnering with Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Group to invest $350 million into data centres, with the option to invest a further $150 million.
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Asia Pacific’s data centre market is worth US$12 billion, according to a recent PWC report, and it’s continuing to grow with the region’s financial centres of Hong Kong and Singapore leading the way.
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