Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Shanghai-based naked Hub today announced plans to open new centres in five cities across Greater China and Vietnam as the high-end co-working startup expands its network to 21 locations across Asia.
The new venues in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Hanoi… Read More>>
Nearly two years after Gaw Capital led an investment consortium that acquired Hong Kong’s Intercontinental Hotel for $938 million, Pioneer Global Group, which is controlled by the city’s Gaw family, has agreed to invest $118.4 million to acquire an additional… Read More>>
Private equity superstar Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group and Chinese developer Shimao Property Holdings are planning a $200 million China hotel joint venture, according to a conversation between Shimao executives and industry analysts this week.
Shimao will own a 51… Read More>>
Fosun CEO Liang Xinjun is leaving the company he co-founded more than 25 years ago with four of his school buddies, as revealed by an unexpected announcement in Hong Kong today by Guo Guangchang, the billionaire chairman of the Shanghai-based… Read More>>
Ping An Finance Center, a 599-metre (1965-foot) skyscraper in Shenzhen is now officially China’s second tallest building. The Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed megatall in the city’s Futian district now ranks just behind the 632-metre Shanghai Tower among the mainland’s loftiest erections,… Read More>>
Guangzhou R&F Properties has jumped into the UK market for the first time by acquiring a 5.5 acre (2.2 hectare) London residential site for £60 million ($74.8 million) from local real estate player Minerva, according to statements from R&F and… Read More>>
After buying up a global portfolio of $1.3 billion in student housing, Singapore’s Mapletree Investments has raised $535 million for a private student accommodation trust, giving institutional investors a stake in its cache of dorms and apartments.
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Reports of capital controls and falling investment numbers have raised doubts on the future of China’s wave of outbound real estate investment, but meddling bureaucrats and capital account figures seem to be no match for China’s high-flying HNA Group.
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HNA Group has touched down at the site of Hong Kong’s former airport for the fourth time in as many months, buying its fourth plot of land in Kai Tak in as many months.
In this most recent run, the… Read More>>
Shui On Land, in a bid to pare its debts, is reported to have signed a memorandum of understanding with a buyer to sell off a 50 percent stake in its Ruihong Xincheng mixed-use project for RMB 8 billion ($1.16… Read More>>
