China’s real estate market is slowing and the country’s biggest developers have reacted by borrowing more cash from overseas markets as government controls continue to restrict home sales. Also in the news today, JP Morgan joins the analyst choir predicting… Read More>>
JP Morgan Chase Builds 11% Stake in China Vanke
According to information from the Hong Kong stock exchange, JP Morgan Chase & Co used a flurry of share trades to build its stake in China Vanke, the third largest real estate developer in China, to 11.13 percent as of… Read More>>
IKEA Opens First India Store in Hyderabad and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
India looms large in the region’s real estate world today as the subcontinent gets its first IKEA shop, and one of the country’s biggest landlords unveils a 1.1 million square metre lease just before it launches India’s first REIT with… Read More>>
JP Morgan Said Selling India Fund Business to Apollo and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
India may be the hottest market for some international real estate investors this year, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who enters the market will win, as US financial giant JP Morgan decides to give up and go home after… Read More>>
JP Morgan Goes Flexible in Central Office and More Hong Kong Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s Hong Kong real estate news, JP Morgan is riding the flexible workspace trend in its Chater House office, and slashing rents in the process. And speaking of leasing costs, the city finally saw apartment rents decline last month… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda Announces $10B China Healthcare Scheme and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading the news today, Wang Jianlin’s Dalian Wanda is ready to bet $10 billion that Sichuan residents will have some major healthcare needs, CY Leung notices that Hong Kong’s home market seems to be getting frothy, and JP Morgan coughs… Read More>>
HK Home Prices Near Their Peak Says JP Morgan and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s news, after developers jacked up new home prices in Hong Kong by as much as 40 percent this month, analysts at JP Morgan are calling a peak to the city’s housing market. Also in the headlines, investors turned… Read More>>
Co-Working, Superman and China’s Rolling Wave of Cash – Asia’s Top 24 Real Estate Stories of 2016
In 2015 it was defaulting developers and cross-border binging that dominated Asia’s real estate headlines. This year, the defaulting disease seems to have eased, only to be replaced by co-working fever.
Also grabbing investor attention in 2016 were record-setting deals… Read More>>
Link REIT and Nan Fung Reel In JP Morgan to Anchor Kowloon Office Complex
Plans to turn Kowloon East into Hong Kong’s second central business district received a boost last week after JP Morgan announced it would establish a major presence at Link REIT and Nan Fung Development’s 77 Hoi Bun Road office complex…. Read More>>
Home Price Growth Slows in Shanghai, Shenzhen and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Today’s headlines feature a lot of persistence. Property developers in Beijing were not deterred by new rules for land auctions finding a way to easily circumvent them while Evergrande continues to be persistent in its efforts to buy shares in… Read More>>