A controlling stake in South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management has gone on the market, with that story leading today’s headline roundup from around the region. Also making the list, Deutsche Bank is not impressed by restructuring plans at China’s Shimao,… Read More>>
Sole Bidder Sino Land Wins Lantau Island Residential Site for $26M
Hong Kong’s Lands Department on Wednesday awarded a residential development site on Lantau Island to Sino Land for HK$203.9 million ($26.1 million), defying expectations that the tender might be withdrawn.
The builder controlled by tycoon Robert Ng was the sole… Read More>>
MTR Withdraws Tender for Lantau Island Site in Third Hong Kong Land Sale Fail of 2023
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has ended a tender for a HK$10 billion ($1.27 billion) project in northern Lantau island without finding a buyer after the three bids received for the commercial and residential site fell short of the government-backed transport… Read More>>
HKRI, CITIC Pacific JV to Invest Nearly $2B in Discovery Bay Expansion
A joint venture between developer HKR International (HKRI) and CITIC Pacific is planning to add a nineteenth phase to their master-planned Discovery Bay project on Lantau Island by investing HK$15 billion ($1.9 billion) to build 1,400 new homes.
The plans… Read More>>
China Pushes Developers to Make Bond Payments and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
The ongoing debt drama of China’s defaulting developers and their anxious creditors entered a new stage this week as the country’s top planning body, the NDRC, has issued a statement pushing companies to pay their offshore bond obligations and better… Read More>>
CapitaLand to Triple China New Economy Assets and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In our latest roundup of regional news headlines, giant Singapore developer CapitaLand plans stepped-up investment in properties serving China’s fast growing tech sector, e-commerce behemoth Amazon eyes a 30 percent stake in a Korean peer, and Airbnb takes a major… Read More>>
Agile Group Buys Site on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island for HK$1.3B
Mainland developer Agile Group won a residential plot on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island for HK$1.13 billion ($143.96 million) this week, surpassing analyst forecasts for the price of the project by as much as 50 percent amid optimism for China’s “Greater… Read More>>
Fosun Tourism IPO Scrapes Up $428M and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Fosun Tourism Group went to market on Friday with its IPO, returning with a valuation of $2.44 billion, after pricing its shares at the low-end of the expected range. The lean listing for the owner of the Club Med resort… Read More>>