Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Singapore’s GIC is making its second mega-bet on the US property market within the last month with the sovereign wealth fund having joined with an American partner to buy Warren Buffett’s favourite REIT for $14 billion in cash.
GIC teamed… Read More>>
Brookfield has leveraged the potential of China’s rental housing market and the financial distress of some of the country’s largest developers to acquire a serviced apartment project in Shanghai’s Yangpu District for RMB 1.26 billion ($180 million) as the first… Read More>>
Frasers Property’s take-private scheme for Singapore-listed Frasers Hospitality Trust came up short by the barest of margins at a Monday vote, as unitholders representing 74.88 percent of the trust’s stapled securities approved the proposal, narrowly missing the 75 percent threshold… Read More>>
China Evergrande’s struggle to pay its debts produced more drama this past week as lenders to the world’s most indebted developer took steps to seize its Hong Kong headquarters.
The unidentified lenders to Shenzhen-based Evergrande have appointed a receiver to… Read More>>
LaSalle Investment Management has raised more than $2.2 billion in equity for its LaSalle Asia Opportunity VI fund, handily exceeding the firm’s initial target of $1.5 billion.
The committed capital, which includes sidecars and co-investment programmes, has been secured from… Read More>>
Financial pressure on mainland developers is creating opportunities for investors in Hong Kong’s residential sector, with Shanghai-based CIFI Holdings agreeing to sell its 60 percent stake in a Fortress Hill project with Wang On Properties to a joint venture of… Read More>>
A logistics fund sponsored by a Warburg Pincus-backed industrial developer is on track to become China’s first REIT sponsored by a private company after receiving a green light from mainland authorities this past week.
The status of the listing application… Read More>>
Australian industrial specialist Goodman Group on Wednesday opened a data centre complex in Hong Kong’s New Territories with up to 400 megawatts in overall power capacity, creating one of the city’s largest digital infrastructure facilities.
The bit barn is part… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC is said to be putting up capital for one of the biggest bets on US office space this year as commercial real estate investor and operator Workspace Property Trust announced a $1.13 portfolio investment late on Monday.
The… Read More>>
Industrial developer Logos on Monday announced three appointments to support its Singapore-based green data centre business, led by the hiring of former Equinix executive Paul Dwyer.
Dwyer joins Logos as head of data centres and will be based in the… Read More>>
