Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Chinese real estate developer Shimao Property Holdings, together with its billionaire boss Hui Wing Mau, have reportedly acquired a downtown Sydney office tower for over A$390 million (US$339 million), as Chinese investors continue to snatch up Australian real estate.
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China appears to have avoided a meltdown in its real estate market this year, but home sales are continuing to slide, according to official figures released this week.
In a report released this week, China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed… Read More>>
Real estate service provider DTZ this week confirmed the close of its sale to a private investment consortium composed of TPG Capital (TPG), PAG Asia Capital (PAG) and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (the TPG & PAG Consortium), by Australian engineering… Read More>>
Xu Jiayin, the chairman of Chinese real estate developer Evergrande, was revealed this week as the buyer of a A$39 million (US$33.4 million) mansion in one of Sydney’s most exclusive neighborhoods following a record-setting transaction.
The purchase by the flamboyant… Read More>>
Real estate agency CBRE continued to restructure its Asia Pacific operations this week by promoting its Japan CEO to the newly created role of President, North Asia. The move will be effective from January 1st, 2015.
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China’s cash-strapped real estate developers are raising record amounts of cash overseas, and Goldman Sachs says you should stay away.
In a report released this week the US investment bank said that debt issued by Chinese real estate developers are… Read More>>
While many of China’s potential homebuyers are waiting for deeper discounts before jumping into the market, the risks of slashing prices became evident recently when disgruntled customers stormed a sales office in the eastern China city of Qingdao earlier this… Read More>>
China’s housing prices fell for a fifth straight month in September, but a slowdown in the rate of the price slide holds out hope that the government’s spate of limited stimulus measures may be taking hold.
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When President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption drive last year by declaring war on “tigers and flies” few could have imagined that he was also helping Internet magnate Jack Ma to launch a whole new ecommerce initiative.
Now Ma’s Taobao.com,… Read More>>
With three of the world’s largest cities within its boundaries and an urbanisation plan expected to move 100 million more citizens into its metropolises over the next several years, diminutive urban areas would not appear to be among China’s problems.
