Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Following months of rumours about his fate, Anbang Insurance chairman and CEO Wu Xiaohui has been detained by Chinese authorities, according to reports in mainland state-owned media.
The controversial insurance executive was taken away by “relevant departments” on Friday, according… Read More>>
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>>
