Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate brokerage, is shaking up its capital markets team in Asia and its leadership in southern China with a flurry of senior-level job changes in Hong Kong and Shenzhen this month.
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Gaw Capital Partners is building up its property holdings in California’s Bay Area, with an affiliate of the Hong Kong-based private equity firm paying $93.5 million this month for a Silicon Valley office building.
An investor called GC Orchard Trimble,… Read More>>
HNA Group is reportedly shedding nearly half of its office footprint in Hong Kong’s Three Exchange Square, just 15 months after the troubled Chinese conglomerate leased eight floors in the downtown tower.
The mainland firm is said to be seeking… Read More>>
A Chinese government-controlled fund now owns New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, as mainland regulators have officially nationalised the hotel’s purchaser, Anbang Insurance Group.
Nearly full ownership of Anbang has been transferred to the government-controlled China Insurance Security Fund, the China… Read More>>
Cushman & Wakefield, the globe-straddling property brokerage and services giant, on June 20th filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which could value the company at over $5 billion, according to sources cited… Read More>>
Private equity giant Blackstone and Bangalore’s Embassy Group are getting ready to list India’s first real estate investment trust as they target a $1 billion September IPO for a joint venture business park porfolio.
The New York-based investment group and… Read More>>
US private equity firm Blackstone Group has forged the largest-ever fund dedicated to property investments in Asia by holding a final close on Blackstone Real Estate Partners Asia II (BREP II), at around $7.1 billion of capital commitments.
Blackstone’s second… Read More>>
Warburg Pincus-backed Kailong has purchased eight properties in Hong Kong over the last year, and now the real estate fund manager is taking a few pages from WeWork’s success story as it plans to redevelop this HK$3.7 billion ($471 million)… Read More>>
While the words Korea and Singapore have dominated the news headlines this week, some of the world’s biggest real estate investors are focusing their gaze on the suddenly less exciting South Korea, where chances of a meaningful sale and purchase… Read More>>
The world’s priciest office market is driven by two types of demand — from cost-conscious multinationals, and from monied mainland firms, according to Neil Anderson, Head of Office Space at Hongkong Land, whose company owns Jardine House and the Exchange… Read More>>
