Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
PAG has secured a $50 million capital commitment from the Employees Retirement System of Texas for the Hong Kong private equity firm’s third pan-Asian core-plus/value-add real estate fund.
The pledge to PAG Real Estate Partners III was disclosed in a… Read More>>
Private equity giant Blackstone secured a $200 million capital commitment for its third Asia property fund from the Virginia Retirement System in December, part of nearly $2.4 billion in fresh funds earmarked for the vehicle during the final quarter of… Read More>>
Mainland Chinese developers continue to wind down their overseas holdings with the UK unit of Shanghai Greenland Group revealing to Mingtiandi that it has sold off the final two phases of a project which it purchased for £135.7 million ($184… Read More>>
A plot in Hong Kong’s Repulse Bay area has attracted a record high price for a residential site sold at government auction, with local developer SEA Holdings besting eight competing bids with a HK$1.19 billion ($152.3 million) tender.
The Hong… Read More>>
Local private equity firm TE Capital Partners and LaSalle Investment Management have completed the acquisition of an office building on Cecil Street in downtown Singapore for S$323.8 million ($240.6 million), in a bid to ride an office market recovery driven… Read More>>
Lendlease Global Commercial REIT (LREIT) is raising its bet on suburban retail with a S$2.08 billion ($1.54 billion) deal that gives it full ownership of a mixed-used complex in Singapore’s Jurong East area.
The SGX-listed REIT has agreed to purchase… Read More>>
Canada’s Manulife Investment Management has agreed to acquire a significant minority equity position in Hong Kong-based Arch Capital Management, a private equity firm focused on real estate in Asia Pacific.
Once the deal gains regulatory approval, it will combine Arch… Read More>>
Asian investors continued a string of Aussie office acquisitions late this past week with Singapore’s Straits Trading announcing on Friday that its property division is buying a pair of freehold office buildings in Melbourne for A$150 million ($106.8 million).
Straits… Read More>>
Opponents of the proposed merger of Singapore-listed Mapletree Commercial Trust and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust gained an experienced ally this week in activist investor Quarz Capital Management, which is urging MNACT unitholders to reject the S$4.22 billion ($3.13 billion)… Read More>>
Global investment giant Brookfield is floating plans to spin off part of its asset management business into a separate, “asset-light” company worth up to $100 billion, according to statements by the Canadian firm’s top leadership this past week.
In a… Read More>>
