Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Shanghai-based logistics developer ESR today announced that a subsidiary of JD.com, China’s second-largest ecommerce player, is investing $306 million into the regional warehouse builder.
The logistics investment by the $53 billion high tech retailer provides a boost both for the… Read More>>
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC is making its first foray into China’s rental housing market by establishing a joint venture with Warburg Pincus-backed rental housing startup Nova. According to a joint announcement today by GIC, Nova and Warburg Pincus, the… Read More>>
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners has joined with an affiliate of China’s largest developer by sales to set up a new $1 billion special situations fund targetting distressed real estate opportunities in the country.
Gaw is launching… Read More>>
Asia’s largest warehouse developer Global Logistic Properties, better known as GLP, has set up a RMB 10 billion ($1.6 billion) private equity fund in China to invest in logistics-related businesses, the company’s first fund targeting assets beyond real estate.
The… Read More>>
Anbang Insurance Group’s founder and former chairman Wu Xiaohui has been sentenced by a Chinese court to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement, China’s official news agency Xinhua reported Thursday morning. The court also ruled that RMB 10.5… Read More>>
Hong Kong-based developer Swire Properties is in talks to sell its stakes in Cityplaza Three and Cityplaza Four, a pair of grade A office towers in the city’s Quarry Bay area, the company announced on Thursday. Swire did not specify… Read More>>
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has teamed up with Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC to buy a landmark office tower in Seoul for 418 billion won ($380 million). The global investment giants will each take a 50 percent… Read More>>
Nan Fung Group is reportedly close to selling an office tower in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Bay area for HK$8 billion ($1 billion) to a mainland Chinese consortium. The deal, if closed, would be the second-largest real estate transaction in the… Read More>>
M&G Real Estate is poised to scoop up South Korea’s most expensive single property, as the arm of British insurer Prudential Plc will reportedly soon strike a deal to buy a new twin tower office complex in downtown Seoul for… Read More>>
Chinese flexible office operator Ucommune has announced a strategic merger with Shanghai-based rival Workingdom, marking the fourth such tie-up by the fast-growing startup this year.
Ucommune said last week it had agreed to invest in and merge with Workingdom, which… Read More>>
