Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Warburg Pincus on Wednesday announced its acquisition of a 16,192-room shared living portfolio, marking the fund manager’s maiden investment in Japan’s rental housing sector.
Spanning 1,195 assets, the Tokyo Beta portfolio dominates the Japanese capital’s “share house” market, a sector… Read More>>
US fund manager Lone Star closes on $2.7 billion for value-add plays in Japan and the West, with that story leading today’s headline roundup. Also making the list, China investigates a high-profile wealth management firm and Australia’s caps on foreign… Read More>>
New leadership for a top investment bank’s Korea business leads this week’s collection of real estate headlines from around Asia Pacific, with DWS also making the list with an Aussie upgrade. Back in the US, Lone Star names a new… Read More>>
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, a Hong Kong tycoon wins permission to build his eight-storey central London hideaway, the kings of Causeway Bay snap up another slice of the premier retail district, and a Texas-based private equity player… Read More>>
Lone Star Funds has succeeded in its JPY 205 billion ($1.9 billion) takeover of Japanese hotelier and property company Unizo, triumphing over rivals Blackstone and Fortress Investment Group.
Unizo said in a statement yesterday that Lone Star’s JPY 6,000 per… Read More>>
Blackstone has improved its bid for a Japanese hotelier and property developer to JPY 205 billion ($1.85 billion), as the US private equity giant tops an existing offer by rival Lone Star Funds that values the company at JPY 195… Read More>>
Blackstone has raised its bid for Unizo Holdings to JPY 192 billion ($1.76 billion), forcing fresh moves by rivals Lone Star Funds and Fortress Investment Group in the contest for the Tokyo-listed hotelier and real estate investment firm.
Blackstone said… Read More>>
Private equity investor Starwood Capital has brought on board a new lead executive for its property business in Asia, Mingtiandi has learned.
Kevin Lee, formerly a Managing Director with Lone Star Funds based in Tokyo, joined Starwood last month in… Read More>>
Leading the news today, one of China’s biggest buyers of real estate assets is now moving into the media sector with a deal for one of the country’s best known business publications. Also in the headlines, Singapore’s CDL is making… Read More>>
European heavyweight Allianz Real Estate has hired Rushabh (Rush) Desai to head its Asia Pacific business, where the long-time General Electric executive will be reunited with his former boss Francois Trausch, who now runs Allianz Real Estate globally.
Desai joins… Read More>>
