Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
China’s real estate elite continued to build bridges with the US this week when Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi – the flamboyant couple behind developer SOHO China – announced a $15 million gift to Harvard University.
The pair of property entrepreneurs donated… Read More>>
The real estate billionaire behind a Shanghai shopping mall and hotel plans to buy up the majority of an upcoming Singapore REIT offering as China’s property developers continue to look for ways to invest their wealth overseas.
According to a… Read More>>
Despite signs of a downturn in Asian property markets, the region’s real estate sector received another vote of confidence from international investors this week, when LaSalle Investment Management announced its successful recruitment of $1 billion in new equity for investment… Read More>>
New York is cheaper than Beijing and London’s a better bargain than Shanghai, but at least Hong Kong is cheaper than Luanda, Angola.
A report on the cost of living in major cities around the world shows that Hong Kong, Singapore,… Read More>>
Chinese purchases of US homes rose 19 percent during 2013 to total $22 billion in housing purchases. The surge in spending made China the leading foreign buyers of US homes with 24 percent of US housing purchases by foreign buyers… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda, the real estate developer owned by China’s richest man, reportedly has acquired a site in Chicago to develop a $900 million mixed-use residential, hotel and commercial complex.
The development project in Chicago’s Lakeshore East area is the third… Read More>>
The problem with China’s real estate market in 2014 is confidence, and whether there is too much confidence or not enough of it may depend upon which side of a deal you are sitting on.
Developers in Zhejiang – one… Read More>>
The US subsidiary of China’s Greenland Group announced this week that it has closed a joint venture deal to develop Atlantic Yards, a 22-acre residential and commercial real estate project in Brooklyn, New York.
Under the terms of the agreement,… Read More>>
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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