Australia’s Lendlease leads Mingtiandi’s look at real estate headlines from around the region today as the developer gets some fresh investment amid challenges to its management plans. Also in the news, regional data centre platform NextDC plans to raise cash… Read More>>
CapitaLand Investment to Raise $320M From Bonds and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s roundup of regional real estate news headlines, CapitaLand’s asset management arm readies a capital raise this month, Vietnam has removed some restrictions on corporate bond issuers as the country’s real estate industry crumples and a New York Stock… Read More>>
Beike Faces Possible Delisting by 12 May After Appearing on SEC Watchlist
Housing broker Beike could face delisting from the New York Stock Exchange within three weeks after the Chinese firm’s American-listed entity this week was added to a US government watch list of public companies whose books are blocked from regulatory… Read More>>
Beike Lashes Out After Muddy Waters Says Revenues Overstated Up to 96%
Softbank- and Tencent-backed housing broker Beike has lashed out against accusations of “systemic fraud” levelled by Muddy Waters Research, a US investment firm famous for exposing fraud at since-bankrupt Chinese firms Luckin Coffee, Sino-Forest and NQ Mobile while shorting their… Read More>>
Zuo Hui, Billionaire Founder of Mainland Real Estate Listings Giant Beike, Dies at 50
China’s largest property listings website, Beike, announced that its founder and chairman, Zuo Hui, died Thursday after an unexpected worsening of illness. He was 50 years old.
Zuo, who started Beijing-based property agency Homelink (Lianjia in Chinese) in 2001 and… Read More>>
SoftBank-Backed Beike Aims for $1B NYSE IPO
China’s largest property listings website, Beike, is attempting a $1 billion IPO on the New York Stock Exchange despite signs that stock markets are becoming part of growing tensions between the US and mainland China.
On July 24, KE Holdings… Read More>>
Tencent Leads $800M Funding Round for Mainland Property Listings Platform Beike
Chinese online property listing platform Beike Zhaofang has secured $800 million in funding from investors led by Internet giant Tencent, according to Chinese media reports.
The ultimate target funding amount for Beike, which was launched by Chinese brokerage giant Lianjia… Read More>>
Gaw Capital Sold Beijing’s Pacific Century Place to Local Fund for RMB 10.5B
Gaw Capital Partners is confirmed to have sold the Pacific Century Place project in Beijing for approximately RMB 10.5 billion ($1.53 billion) according to sources familiar with the transaction who spoke with Mingtiandi.
The Hong Kong-based private equity firm completed… Read More>>
Tencent, Warburg Pincus Said Investing $1.5B in China’s Lianjia
Chinese Internet giant Tencent is planning to invest $1 billion into Lianjia, as part of a $2 billion financing round in preparation for a future IPO by China’s largest real estate brokerage, according to a report in the Wall Street… Read More>>
Cancer Death of Ziroom Tenant Raises Talk of Risk in China’s Rental Housing Rush
A social media post linking the leukemia death of an Alibaba employee living in an allegedly formaldehyde contaminated home operated by Sequoia China and Tencent-backed Ziroom has brought a new round of pressure on the rental housing unicorn this week.