Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China’s second-largest e-commerce company by sales, JD.com, has opened its first unmanned store in Xiong’an New Area, a new district being built just south of Beijing that the central government intends to develop into a new economic hub.
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China’s second-ranking e-commerce company continues to expand its online empire into the offline world as JD.com’s founder and chief executive vowed late last week to open 1,000 stores every day this year.
“As of last month, JD.com opened 1,000 convenience… Read More>>
India is back in the news today as the subcontinent’s real estate assets continue to show their appeal to the world’s largest private equity players. In addition to Brookfield’s reported offer for a Hyderabad office block, global brokerage Savills is… Read More>>
At the top of today’s headlines, Singapore’s housing market is back into bull mode with prices of private homes rising 3.1 percent in the first three months of the year. In another bit of Lion City-driven news, a unit of… Read More>>
Alibaba Group has closed on its acquisition of a RMB 4.68 billion ($744 million) stake in Wanda Film to become the film company’s second largest shareholder, following through on an agreement signed in early February. The move came just days… Read More>>
Ping An Real Estate-backed Sasseur REIT has driven Singapore’s biggest equity offering this year by raising S$396.0 million ($301.7 million) via a public listing on the Singapore Exchange. Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com is among the REIT’s cornerstone investors.
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Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com continues to expand its brick-and-mortar empire, building on its existing ventures in physical supermarkets and convenience stores by taking a cornerstone stake in the IPO of one of the mainland’s largest outlet mall chains.
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China’s second-ranking e-commerce platform, JD.com, is now the country’s number one couch potato enabler, serving up fast food, Oreos and stinky tofu straight from the nearest FamilyMart convenience store to the comfort of every Internet user’s living room.
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It’s been less than 10 months since JD.com launched its own logistics business, but the warehousing and shipping subsidiary of China’s second-largest ecommerce player has already raised $2.5 billion from some of the mainland’s biggest investment firms, according to an… Read More>>
Wanda boss Wang Jianlin has been selling properties in the UK, Australia and mainland China to help lessen his debt load, and now the owner of China’s biggest commercial developer is selling off nearly 14 percent of his flagship commercial… Read More>>
