Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
The credit problems of China’s real estate industry spread into its first-tier cities recently when a 220,000 square metre development project was halted by the courts after the developer ran out of cash.
The suspension of the mixed-use project belonging… Read More>>
For the second time this month a Chinese financial institution has acquired a London office building, as China Construction Bank was revealed today to have purchased a tower in the city’s financial district for 110 million pounds ($187 million).
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China’s real estate industry and the shadow banking network that it relies on received a collective black eye this week when a Hangzhou developer first defaulted on loan payments, and was later arrested on fraud allegations surrounding RMB 2 billion… Read More>>
China’s cashed up investors landed another billion dollar property last week when the country’s biggest life insurer teamed up with an investment firm belonging to the Qatari government to buy an office building along London’s Canary Wharf for 795 million pounds… Read More>>
A matched pair of hyper-green, male and female, towers are set to stretch a full kilometre from the ground in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, if a local chemical company and some London architects succeed in a recent architectural… Read More>>
A company linked to controversial China steel tycoon Du Shuanghua has agreed to buy an international hotel along Paris’ historic Champs-Elysee for 344.5 million euros ($468 million).
Hong Kong-listed Kai Yuan Holdings Ltd (1215), whose primary business is investment in… Read More>>
Leasing out retail space is as easy as selling colored sugar water to babies, or at least it looked that way to China beverage magnate Zong Qinghou when he opened his first Waow Plaza mall in Hangzhou in 2012.
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The cost of living in China’s major cities is now higher than in Hong Kong or Singapore, according to a survey of expatriate cost of living published this week by a global human resources consultancy.
The survey by ECA International… Read More>>
Since August last year global fund investors have poured more than $3.81 billion into China’s warehouse developers, seeking a share of the profits reaped from supporting the country’s rapidly growing retail and ecommerce sectors.
And the influx of money could… Read More>>
The second biggest pension fund in the US has $257 billion to invest and is looking for more deals in China. However, even a giant fund manager that has been investing in China for several years realises that good deals… Read More>>
