Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
SC Capital Partners has announced the hiring of managing director Rai Katimansah, a 25-year veteran who will focus on the Singapore-based real estate fund manager’s debt strategies.
Katimansah joins SC Capital from Hong Kong’s Sun Hung Kai & Co, where… Read More>>
BlackRock Inc. has ceased to be a substantial unitholder in Cromwell European REIT (CEREIT) after selling down its stake in the SGX-listed trust, as Europe’s property sector faces growing headwinds and rising bond yields dampen the appeal of Singaporean REITs.
Hong Kong developer Sun Hung Kai Properties held the topping-out ceremony for the main office tower at its International Trade City (ITC) project in Shanghai’s Xujiahui area on 29 December, adding 70 storeys of office space to the company’s portfolio… Read More>>
Limited project launches have slowed down home sales and dampened Singapore’s housing market in the fourth quarter, causing prices for new private homes to rise by a mere 0.2 percent from the preceding three months and temper full-year price growth… Read More>>
China Fortune Land Development is selling its interests in three mixed-use projects in the cities of Wuhan and Nanjing to mainland property giant China Resources Land for a total of RMB 12.4 billion ($1.8 billion), as the default-prone developer moves… Read More>>
Wang On Properties has announced its first hospitality investment, teaming with US private equity shop Angelo Gordon to purchase the Pentahotel Hong Kong from New World Development for HK$2 billion ($260 million).
The 695-room hotel in Kowloon contains 285,000 square… Read More>>
Insurance giant AIA is diving into China’s commercial property sector by paying RMB 5 billion ($716 million) for a 90 percent stake in a retail-office complex in Shanghai’s Hongkou district, marking the largest cross-border investment in mainland real estate in… Read More>>
Mainland regulators have given the green light for a real estate investment trust under Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, marking the country’s third significant warehouse REIT as demand for logistics space continues to grow.
Hong Kong’s Link REIT is entering Singapore with a bang as it records the city’s largest real estate acquisition this year with a S$2.16 billion ($1.6 billion) purchase of a pair of suburban malls from Mercatus Co-operative Ltd, according to… Read More>>
Country Garden Holdings, the financially stressed Chinese real estate giant, has received a helping hand this week from the company’s co-chairman as well as the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) through two loans totalling $928 million.
China’s top… Read More>>
