Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Troubled real estate developer Shui On Land took a small step towards shoring up its cashflow recently when it sold its Xihu Tiandi retail development to a Hong Kong investment firm for an undisclosed sum.
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San Francisco’s housing market is booming and according to one local agent, a major cause for the double-digit growth in home prices are Chinese buyers putting down cash for local homes.
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The golden age of China’s real estate market is over, according to the top of executive of China Vanke, but the industry should do just fine as it enters its “silver age.”
Yu Liang, the CEO of China’s biggest real… Read More>>
Lots of people like Harry Potter novels, but a university in China’s Hebei province is taking fandom to a whole new level by building a campus that looks suspiciously like the boy wizard’s beloved alma mater.
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Pan Shiyi, chairman of Hong Kong-listed developer Soho China, thinks that the country’s real estate industry is headed for disaster, one that he likens to a certain famous shipwreck, and he thinks the coming crash could sink the whole economy.
China’s government signalled that it is eager to revive the country’s housing market on Friday when the official China Securities Journal reported that the central authorities would allow cities to ease policy restrictions on home sales depending on market conditions.
The former Standard Oil Building at 225 Bush Street in San Francisco changed hands this week for the second time in two years, passing from a German investment fund to Chinese real estate group in a transaction valued at $350… Read More>>
Qihang Specific Asset Management Plan doesn’t trade like REIT, and it’s not taxed like a REIT, but investors eager for an alternative investment vehicle in China’s stunted finance market are willing to call it a REIT, and it technically began… Read More>>
The chorus of concern regarding China’s slumping real estate sector gained a couple of new and highly influential voices last week when economists for JP Morgan Chase and ING both warned of risks to the nation’s economy.
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Meeting a real estate broker who isn’t optimistic about the market is about as rare as finding cheerful economist, but it seems that even some of China’s biggest property agencies are bracing for a downturn by cutting headcount.
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