Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
The board of Starwood Hotels & Resorts recommended on Friday that the hotel chain accept a newly sweetened $78 per share buyout offer from China’s Anbang Insurance, pushing aside an earlier merger agreement with Marriott International.
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Bain Capital LLC has entered the race to develop private hospitals in China by paying $150 million for a controlling interest in Asia Pacific Medical Group, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal.
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China’s insurance giants continue to show off their hunger for US real estate with Ping An Insurance reportedly preparing a bid for a 209,000 square metre (2.25 million square foot) office complex in the San Francisco bay area.
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Greenland Group continues to lessen its dependence on its domestic real estate market after China’s second largest developer by sales announced on Friday that it would package up 19 of its mainland hotels into a Singapore-listed REIT.
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US co-working phenomena WeWork became the latest US “sharing economy’ startup to take aim at Asia this week when it raised $430 million in a round led by Chinese investors.
The six-year-old shared office provider is now valued at $16… Read More>>
Faced with disappointing leasing revenues for its portfolio of Shanghai and Beijing office properties, Soho China announced today that it would sell its Soho Century Plaza office project in Shanghai for an undisclosed sum.
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China’s Dalian Wanda Group continues to expand into the global cinema industry as the company’s AMC Entertainment Holdings subsidiary agreed last week to buy out rival Carmike Cinemas in a $1.1 billion all cash deal.
AMC’s acquisition of the US’s… Read More>>
Mainland developer Country Garden announced recently that it has signed a preliminary agreement with Shui On Land to buy a major stake in the Hong Kong-listed builder’s Foshan Lingnan Tiandi project in the southern Chinese city of Foshan. A report… Read More>>
Greenland Forest City, a partnership between China’s second largest real estate developer and New York firm Forest City Ratner, is proposing to build Brooklyn’s biggest office tower, according to an outline plan presented to community representatives in New York last… Read More>>
Mainland financial giant China Everbright announced late on Thursday that it has agreed to purchase the Dah Sing Financial Centre in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district for HK$10 billion ($1.29 billion), as Chinese giants continue to buy up real estate assets… Read More>>
