China’s hunger for real estate in global gateway cities was demonstrated again this week when word leaked that the Bank of China is purchasing a Manhattan office tower for a sum said to approach $600 million.
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China’s hunger for real estate in global gateway cities was demonstrated again this week when word leaked that the Bank of China is purchasing a Manhattan office tower for a sum said to approach $600 million.
The big four Chinese… Read More>>

Shares in Kaisa Group Holdings are down by more than nine percent after the company revealed that the Shenzhen government had frozen sales at three of its projects and the company’s largest shareholders scaled back their stake in the Chinese real estate… Read More>>

More bad news could be on the way for China’s property market early next year, as the government will reportedly implement a long awaited national real estate registry in March.
The nationwide log of who owns what properties is expected… Read More>>

Following a year in which home prices in Sydney have risen 13 percent, and an estimated 18 percent of homes are being sold to Chinese, Australian lawmakers are recommending tighter controls on sales of real estate to overseas buyers.

Shanghai’s Greenland Group, which has made a name for itself in recent years by being one of China’s most aggressive overseas investors, has brought that same “Invest first. Ask questions later,” approach to Chengdu, by starting work on southwest China’s… Read More>>

China’s biggest property developer is saying that the country’s biggest real estate market has bottomed out, but one of China Vanke’s top officials cautions that no quick rebound is in site.
Speaking at the company’s annual meeting with securities companies,… Read More>>

Hospitality group Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide announced on Friday that it had sold its Sheraton on the Park in Sydney, Australia to China’s Sunshine Insurance Group Corporation for A$463 million (US$401 million).
The acquisition continues a number of major… Read More>>

Goodman Group and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced today that they are adding $500 million more in equity to their China joint venture, as investors continue to be encouraged by the returns from China’s logistics real estate sector.
In… Read More>>

One of the great mysteries of the boom in purchases of international real estate by Chinese investors has been how all of the cash for these purchases gets overseas from a country where capital accounts and foreign exchange are strictly… Read More>>

Chinese investors continued their harvest of international hotels last week when the Jin Jiang Group agreed to buy France’s Louvre hotel chain for a sum said to be in excess of $1.49 billion.
In the deal due to close in… Read More>>