Housing markets lead the way in Mingtiandi’s roundup of Asia real estate headlines today with the news that home prices grew at their fastest pace in nearly half a year on China’s mainland, at the same time that sales in… Read More>>
ESR REIT Launches S$270M SG Expansion, New Equity Sale Days After IPO Scrubbed
Four days after ESR Cayman backed away from an impending $1.4 billion IPO, the warehouse developer’s Singapore affiliate today unveiled a trio of initiatives aimed at expanding its presence in Southeast Asia’s wealthiest city.
In a set of early morning… Read More>>
ESR Invests S$62.2M to Take Control of Singapore’s Sabana REIT
Pan-Asian logistics group ESR continued its mission to build a heavyweight player in Singapore’s fragmented industrial REIT sector this week, with a set of deals that boosts its stake in SGX-listed Sabana REIT to where it owns more units in… Read More>>
Hong Kongers Protest Artificial Island Plan and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Hong Kong residents may be sick of the city’s ongoing housing crisis but at least a few thousand of them seem to have found the government’s proposed cure to be worse than the illness. Protests over the weekend lead today’s… Read More>>
Wing Tai in Talks to Buy London Bank HQ for $548M and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In what could be a north Asia to southeast Asia handoff, the lead story in today’s collection of real estate headlines from the region tracks Singaporean developer Wing Tai’s potential purchase of a $548 million London asset from Korea’s Samsung… Read More>>
Singapore’s ESR-REIT, Viva Industrial Trust Propose $2.2B Merger
The managers of ESR-REIT and Viva Industrial Trust (VIT) have announced a proposed merger that would create Singapore’s fourth-largest industrial real estate investment trust by asset value, totalling about S$3 billion ($2.2 billion).
Through the proposed deal, which would mark… Read More>>
Warburg Pincus-Backed ESR-REIT Proposes Merger With Viva Industrial Trust
Warburg Pincus-backed e-Shang Redwood REIT (ESR-REIT) has proposed a merger with Viva Industrial Trust to create the fourth-largest Singapore-listed industrial REIT.
ESR-REIT announced the proposed merger with Viva Industrial Trust, a mainboard-listed business park and industrial REIT, this week after… Read More>>