LaSalle Investment Management has announced the launch of a Japan-focused property fund seeded with six assets purchased for JPY 105 billion ($965 million), as the independent fund management subsidiary Jones Lang LaSalle, continues to ramp up its presence in the… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2019-07-29
In this week’s edition of People in the News, the chief executive officer of the Indian arm of Emaar Properties hands in his resignation after thirteen months, citing personal reasons.
In other fresh moves around the region, a fund manager… Read More>>
LaSalle Set to Open Five New China Logistics Facilities in 2020
LaSalle Investment Management has broken ground on five new logistics developments that will deliver 359,000 square metres of new warehouse space to China by July next year, according to an announcement by the company.
The set of high-spec sheds will… Read More>>
Mainland Tenants Dominate HK Luxury Home Rentals and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading our collection of news from around the region today, mainland corporates may have slowed down in the race to occupy Hong Kong’s prime office space but some of these same companies are now taking over in the competition to… Read More>>
UBS, APG Set Up Japan Multi-Family Venture and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s real estate headlines, the global search for yield takes a Dutch pension fund and a Swiss asset manager into Japan’s rental apartment market for a new $175 million venture. A bit closer to the equator, US private equity… Read More>>
Mainland Developer Misses $204M in Bond Payments and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Defaults, sheds and empty Japanese office buildings lead today’s collection of real estate headlines from around Asia as we finish off the first week of October. At the top of our list is a struggling Jiangsu developer that just can’t… Read More>>
LaSalle Enters $300M Warehouse JV with JD.Com-Backed China Logistics Property
With a fast-growing e-commerce sector driving demand for distribution space in mainland China, LaSalle Investment Management has expanded its efforts to acquire assets in the country’s warehouse sector by forming a $300 million joint venture with JD.com-backed developer China Logistics… Read More>>
LaSalle Takes $1.2B Asia Fund to Disneyland for Tokyo-Area Hotel Buy
LaSalle’s latest Asia opportunity fund has acquired a hotel near Tokyo Disneyland. The real estate investment group announced the investment in the 216 room, eight-storey asset as an opportunity to profit from a Japanese tourism boom as inbound traveller numbers… Read More>>
LaSalle Sells Korean Warehouse to Deutsche Bank’s DWS for $57M
Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm has bought a recently completed logistics warehouse in Icheon City, south of Seoul for 61.2 billion won ($57.4 million), as global real estate investors pile into Korea’s modernising logistics sector.
DWS (formerly Deutsche Asset Management)… Read More>>
LaSalle Raises $1.15B for Fifth Asia Opportunity Fund
US-based real estate investment firm LaSalle Investment Management has secured $1.15 billion of equity for its fifth pan-Asia opportunistic fund, topping the initial target of $750 million as global institutional investors pile into the region’s property assets.
The capital will… Read More>>
