Asia real estate and outbound investment news
The Shanghai government today announced modifications to its rules punishing owners and developers of commercial-titled apartments after hundreds of homebuyers protested the policy measures over the weekend.
In a statement posted on the city’s Housing and Urban-Rural Development office website… Read More>>
A rare attempt at a hostile takeover targetting China Vanke has ended with China Evergrande Group selling off a hard-bought 14 percent stake in the developer to a Shenzhen government company at a RMB 7.07 billion ($1.04 billion) loss, according… Read More>>
LaSalle Investment Management has bought a prime office complex in Prague from Slovakia’s IAD Investments for approximately 57 million euros ($63.8 million), the companies announced last week. The US-based real estate investment specialist is making the acquisition on behalf of… Read More>>
Straits Real Estate is teaming up with funds managed by ARA Asset Management to buy an office tower in downtown Sydney from a fund run by local investment firm Propertylink for A$275 million ($207.3 million), according to announcements this week… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel group began testing buyer interest in the Excelsior Hotel in the city’s Causeway Bay district for a sale that could bring the Jardines-owned luxury hotel brand as much as HK$27 billion ($3.4 billion).
The London… Read More>>
Ending days of speculation and months of negotiations, Blackstone Group on Friday confirmed an agreement to sell its Logicor European logistics platform to China Investment Corporation (CIC) for €12.25 billion ($13.82 billion).
The sale by a set of funds controlled… Read More>>
CapitaLand is betting on the continued growth of the Shanghai office market, picking up a newly completed office project in the city’s Wujiaochang area for RMB 2.64 billion ($388.6 million), according to an announcement today by the Singapore-listed property giant…. Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Nan Fung Development has outbid 11 rivals to win a commercial site near the former Kai Tak airport for the record-breaking price of HK$24.6 billion ($3.16 billion), according to a statement from the city government late yesterday.
Although… Read More>>
Anbang Group has forged another deal with Blackstone, buying an Amsterdam hotel from the US private equity giant for €350 million ($391.6 million), Dutch real estate news site PropertyNL has reported. The deal marks Anbang’s latest acquisition from Stephen Schwarzman’s… Read More>>
China Investment Corporation (CIC) is poised to acquire Blackstone’s European logistics platform for over 12 billion euros ($13.4 billion), UK property news website The Estates Gazette reported on Monday.
The mainland sovereign wealth fund has reportedly moved ahead of rivals… Read More>>
