In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, a Minnesota pension manager follows through on a planned commitment to an Angelo Gordon real estate fund, and Chinese home rental platform Ziroom reportedly mulls raising $1 billion from a Hong Kong IPO.
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2023-01-16
Alternatives lead this week’s collection of personnel moves from across Asia Pacific’s real estate sector, with the top three entries representing logistics, data centres and proptech. Also making the list is a senior appointment at CapitaLand’s Ascott division and a… Read More>>
DigitalBridge Buys Stake in Malaysia’s AIMS Data Centre for $438M
US real estate investment trust DigitalBridge Group is acquiring a 49 percent interest in AIMS Data Centre from Malaysian telecom firm Time dotCom for RM 2.01 billion ($438 million), with plans to grow the data centre platform in Southeast Asia,… Read More>>
Vanke Property Services Unit Eyes $1.5B IPO and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, a property services unit of China Vanke lines up a billion-dollar IPO, Singapore-based GLP buys a California warehouse, and the Hong Kong bourse asks Evergrande to ensure management integrity before stock trading can… Read More>>
Evergrande Bondholders Get Restless and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, conflict brews between China Evergrande and its bondholders over the terms of the group’s debt restructuring, Chinese developers’ shares jump on prospects of eased funding restrictions, and scandal-plagued Luckin Coffee plots a return… Read More>>
DigitalBridge Expands Vantage Data Centers Into APAC Following PCCW Buy
Less than two months after announcing an agreement to buy Hong Kong-based PCCW’s data centre business for $750 million, the fund manager formerly known as Colony Capital is consolidating its APAC server facility business under its Vantage Data Centers… Read More>>
Richard Li’s PCCW Selling Data Centres to Colony Capital Successor for $750M
Hong Kong-based telecom operator PCCW is selling its data centre business to DigitalBridge, a New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust that was known as Colony Capital until one month ago, for $750 million, according to a notice to… Read More>>
HK Banks Halt Mortgages for Evergrande Projects and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s roundup of real estate headlines from around Asia, Hong Kong’s biggest bank has taken note of China Evergrande’s ongoing financial woes, as HSBC has reportedly stopped providing mortgages for the developer’s housing projects in Asia’s most expensive residential… Read More>>