Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Singapore’s GIC has acquired a 40 percent stake in a life sciences park near the University of Oxford as part of a newly announced strategic partnership between the $744 billion sovereign wealth fund and the university’s Magdalen College.
The more… Read More>>
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, a GIC-backed joint venture buys a Seattle skyscraper, ESR Australia boosts its logistics investments with new capital commitments, and two more companies accuse indebted developer China Evergrande of failing to pay bills… Read More>>
Singapore’s ever-active sovereign wealth fund is back in the news again today as GIC is said to be signing up for a 30 percent slice of Starbucks’ Korea operation, as the American coffee firm exits a joint venture with Shinsegae… Read More>>
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, private equity titan Blackstone announces plans for a third Asia real estate fund, China Evergrande’s once-highflying founder sees his net worth crumble, and Singapore sovereign fund GIC posts its highest 20-year return since… Read More>>
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are headed back stateside, joining with commercial developer Boston Properties to create a co-investment programme targeting acquisitions of US office properties.
The trio are committing an aggregate $1… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC has made its third major real estate investment this month, as the sovereign wealth fund doubles down on a four-year-old bet on student housing in the UK.
Unite Students, Britain’s largest provider of purpose-built student accommodation, said Friday… Read More>>
In today’s roundup of regional headlines, Hong Kong’s biggest developers have joined the bidding as a tender for largest harbourfront plot in Central closed on Friday. Also in the news, Singapore’s GIC and US fund manager Nuveen are selling a… Read More>>
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, Aussie casino operator Crown Resorts is presented with a revised buyback proposal from Oaktree Capital Group, Singapore’s stock exchange launches the world’s first ESG REIT derivatives, and Shenzhen’s efforts to curb housing prices… Read More>>
Only three months after opening its first hyperscale facility in Asia, Equinix on Monday announced a deal with Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC to inject a further $3.9 billion into growing the US firm’s xScale data centre programme.
Through a… Read More>>
Indian mall developer Phoenix Mills has secured a second deal with a deep-pocketed global investor in less than a week, this time entering into a strategic partnership with Singapore’s GIC.
The sovereign wealth fund will acquire “a significant minority stake”… Read More>>
