Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Once known for its decaying workshops, the Wong Chuk Hang area in southern Hong Kong is gaining popularity as a commercial hub with developers rushing to turn its one-time factory space into hotels, offices and retail space.
The opening of… Read More>>
Hong Kong’s Sunlight REIT, which is managed by a unit of Henderson Land Development, has announced that it is buying a commercial building on Nathan Road in Mong Kok for HK$658 million ($84.3 million). Through the sale-and-leaseback deal, the REIT… Read More>>
Luxury residential agency List Sotheby’s International Realty has made its Hong Kong debut, as the Tokyo-based agency expands its global footprint. The Japanese affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty – itself an offshoot of the well-known Sotheby’s Auction House – opens… Read More>>
The top floor of The Center office tower, the tallest building in the portfolio of Li Ka-shing’s Cheung Kong group, is poised to change hands for HK$738 million ($94.5 million), smashing the price per square foot record for a strata-titled… Read More>>
A new player has jumped into Hong Kong’s rapidly growing co-working sector, with Amsterdam-based Spaces leasing out an entire building in a prime area of the city’s Sheung Wan area to serve as a shared office venue. The deal marks… Read More>>
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel group has begun to receive offers for the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, with at least five bids reportedly valuing the four-star waterfront property at HK$30 billion ($3.8 billion).
If the 848-room Excelsior is… Read More>>
China’s Country Garden has shrugged off a government clampdown on cross-border capital flows by acquiring its second Hong Kong project in less than three months. The Guangzhou-based developer is picking up a 60 percent stake in a waterfront residential site in… Read More>>
Developer Hong Kong Resorts International (HKRI) has sold the entire 22nd floor of China Merchants Tower in Hong Kong’s Shun Tak Centre for HK$750 million ($95.9 million). The transaction, which values the office space at nearly HK$31,000 ($3,962) per square… Read More>>
A unit of Bank of China is taking a bite out of Hong Kong’s commercial property sector, as it picks up three buildings for a total of HK$3.1 billion (US$396 million), including a co-working facility in Kwun Tong and a… Read More>>
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the city’s de facto central bank, is said to be reviewing lending to HNA Group and Dalian Wanda Group as pressure mounts on the debt-strapped mainland conglomerates.
Banks were required last week to provide information… Read More>>
