Asia real estate and outbound investment news
The long-running succession saga at Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau’s business empire began a new chapter this week with the elevation of Lau’s wife, Chan Hoi-wan, to CEO of Chinese Estates Holdings to replace her elder sister, Chan Sze-wan.
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A troubled co-working company leads the way in Mingtiandi’s roundup of Asia real estate headlines today with the loss-making firm, which has burned through billions of dollars worth of investment from Softbank and other backers without turning a profit, is… Read More>>
Co-living leads Asia’s real estate headlines today as Southeast Asia’s largest developer says it will add seven more properties to its shared living space portfolio. One of China’s biggest borrowers also makes the news after issuing $2 billion in bonds… Read More>>
Sovereign funds, Swiss banks and French châteaux feature in today’s real estate headlines from around the region as China’s CIC is said to have found a new chief among the ranks at the country’s Bank of Communications, and finance heavyweight… Read More>>
Chinese Estates Holding director Kimbee Chan Hoi-wan and members of her husband Joseph Lau’s family purchased a third of $3 billion in senior unsecured bonds issued by China Evergrande Group late last month, swelling the clan’s portfolio of the top-three mainland… Read More>>
Leading today’s set of real estate headlines from around the region, Singapore’s UOL announced an 85 percent drop in net profit after a recent consolidation, plus the fugitive boss of one of Hong Kong’s largest developers is still free to… Read More>>
Leading today’s Hong Kong real estate news, mainland tech giants continue to build partnerships with the region’s biggest builders, with New World Developments new deal to build hospitals in the mainland and Hong Kong with Tencent-backed online healthcare service provider… Read More>>
Leading today’s Hong Kong real estate news, tycoon Joseph Lau may fly high in his private 787, but his company, Chinese Estates, hit a downdraft last year that pulled profits down 42 percent in 2017. Also in the headlines, saw… Read More>>
Seven of Hong Kong’s ten wealthiest people and almost half of the city’s top billionaires made their fortunes in real estate, according to the latest annual ranking of the city’s 50 richest people by Forbes.
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Joseph Lau’s Chinese Estates got some good news this week as the developer’s stake in China Evergrande now is worth more than its own Hong Kong market cap. Also in the headlines, China’s suppression of housing demand means that sales… Read More>>
