Data centres lead the way again today as Stonepeak-backed Digital Edge raises $325 million in financing for its Indonesia business. Also in the news, ex-ARA boss John Lim has learned to love Chinese budget hotels and institutional investors go cool… Read More>>
Blackstone Takes on $5B Persian Gulf Logistics Partnership and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Making friends with major Arab investors leads today’s collection of real estate news from around the region as Blackstone teams with a subsidiary of ADIA chairman Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s International Holding Company to exploit the Arab world’s booming e-commerce… Read More>>
Savills IM Sets Up $241M UK Build-to-Rent Fund With ARA’s Lim Family
Savills Investment Management has launched its second UK-focused fund backed by the family office of ARA Asset Management founder John Lim, this time for a build-to-rent development strategy.
The fund aims to raise £200 million ($241 million) for development of… Read More>>
ESR to Acquire ARA Asset Management for $5.2B
Hong Kong-listed ESR is about to become the largest real estate fund manager in Asia Pacific as the industrial real estate specialist today announced an agreement to acquire ARA Asset Management for $5.2 billion.
ESR together with ARA announced the… Read More>>
Lim Family Selling Stake in Straits Real Estate for $78.3M and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
With much of the region still making its way gradually back from tomb-related holidays, Singapore dominates today’s real estate headlines, with a deal involving the head of ARA Asset Management leading the way.
US private equity firm KKR is already… Read More>>
ARA Asset Management Acquires Warehouse Specialist Logos
Singapore’s ARA Asset Management announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in Asia Pacific logistics real estate developer and fund manager Logos Group for an undisclosed sum.
The deal, which was revealed in a joint announcement by the… Read More>>
Blackstone, ARA and CK Asset Joining APREA Summit in SH 3-5 September
Asia’s property investment leaders will be gathering in Shanghai this coming week as the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association holds its largest event of the year in China’s commercial capital.
The APREA Asia Pacific Property Leaders Summit will take place… Read More>>
APREA Names Former C&W Exec Sigrid Zialcita as New CEO
Sigrid Zialcita has been appointed chief executive officer of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) and will assume her duties on January 2nd, the group announced Tuesday.
Zialcita takes up her duties with the real estate industry non-profit after having… Read More>>
ARA Enters US Market With Purchase of 38 Hyatt Hotels
Singapore-based real estate fund manager ARA Asset Management announced on Monday that it had purchased a portfolio of 38 Hyatt-branded hotels in the United States from a unit of Lone Star Funds at an undisclosed price, marking ARA’s first foray… Read More>>
ARA Closes on Buy of $317M Stake in Cromwell Property, Raising AUM to $58B
ARA Asset Management has closed on its acquisition of a 19.5 percent stake in Australia’s Cromwell Property, boosting the Singapore-based company’s assets under management to S$77.2 billion ($57.7 billion).
The Singaporean asset manager implemented the deal by purchasing 86.5 million… Read More>>