Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China’s overseas acquisition drive has suffered another blow amid scrutiny by foreign regulators, with the Canadian government rejecting the proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of Aecon Group, one of Canada’s largest builders, by state-owned CCCC International Holding Limited (CCCI).
Canada’s national… Read More>>
Carrefour has opened its first-ever smart supermarket in Shanghai in partnership with Tencent, four months after the parent company of China’s ubiquitous WeChat app bought a stake in the French retailer. The Le Marche store in China’s commercial capital is… Read More>>
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>>
Amazon will soon have a new landlord in India’s fourth largest city, as Ascendas India Trust announced today that it is acquiring seven buildings in a business park in Hyderabad.
The Singapore-listed affiliate of developer Ascendas-Singbridge is paying a combined… Read More>>
Singapore-listed property firm UOL Group and its affiliates have won a large residential parcel on Silat Avenue, just south of Singapore’s General Hospital, for S$1.035 billion ($771 million), amid a two-day flurry of major site acquisitions in the city-state.
The… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s New World Development and Far East Consortium (FEC) have teamed up with Singapore’s SC Global Developments to win a luxury residential site near Singapore’s prime shopping area Orchard Road, after placing a record S$410 million ($309 million) bid… Read More>>
The Singapore government has awarded a prime commercial and residential site in the city’s upscale Bukit Timah neighbourhood to a consortium led by Far East Organization for S$1.2 billion ($904 million).
Far East Organization partnered with Hong Kong-based sister company… Read More>>
Singapore’s CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT) is making its first foray outside of Asia to pick up a 38-storey, grade A commercial tower in Frankfurt, Germany for €356 million ($420.8 million).
CCT, Singapore’s largest commercial REIT by market cap, will take… Read More>>
Pan-Asian logistics developer ESR is joining with Beijing Properties to set up an offshore fund which would acquire logistics projects worth RMB 6.4 billion ($1 billion) from the mainland builder. The move came a day after Warburg Pincus-backed ESR received… Read More>>
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC and Frasers Property Limited are teaming up with Singapore-based flexible officer operator JustCo to invest $177 million in building a co-working platform across Southeast Asia.
JustCo, which has spaces open or upcoming in Singapore, Indonesia… Read More>>
