China’s government has responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by implementing fee reductions, liquidity injections and other breaks for business, at the same time that the country’s central bank has eased monetary pressure, in a multi-faceted effort to offset the short… Read More>>
Mapletree Closes on A$654M in Funding for A$1.4B Aussie Office Trust
Mapletree Investments has boosted its capital management portfolio with the closing of a new Australia-focused private trust at A$654 million ($447 million) in total equity, according to an announcement from the Temasek Holdings-backed real estate firm.
MASCOT Private Trust, which… Read More>>
$754M Deal Shows Ongoing Investor Demand for Singapore Office Assets Sponsored Feature
Singapore’s CBD is seeing decade-high capital values, driven by strong demand for quality office space in the Island State
Just last month, Chevron House – a 32-storey office and retail building in the heart of the city’s CBD –… Read More>>
China Merchants Bank Takes Over Half of HNA’s Former Hong Kong Home
Mainland financial heavyweight China Merchants Bank has leased a four floor office in Hong Kong’s Three Exchange Square in Central, taking half of the eight floors shed by liquidity-troubled HNA last week, local media reported.
The Shenzhen-based commercial bank, which… Read More>>
GIC Puts 50% Stake in Sydney’s Chifley Tower on Block for $650M
Singapore’s GIC is putting 50 percent of the Chifley Tower in Sydney on the market, according to the AFR and other media accounts.
The sovereign wealth fund is said to be asking A$900 million ($650 million) to part with half… Read More>>
Cryptocurrency Trader Rents Priciest Office Ever in World’s Most Expensive Real Estate Market
The second-largest bitcoin exchange globally may now be taking one of the world’s highest office rental bills after agreeing to pay a record HK$225 ($28.67) per square foot per month to lease a full floor of the Cheung Kong Center… Read More>>
Phoenix Property Investors Said Buying Queen’s Road Office Space For HK$442M
Hong Kong-based Phoenix Property Investors is reported to have invested HK$442 million ($56.5 million) to purchase commercial space in the lower floors of the V Heun Building in Central, according to an account in local newspaper Mingpao.
The latest reported… Read More>>
BlackRock Buys Pair of Shanghai Office Buildings From PGIM for RMB 1.2B
PGIM Real Estate, a property investment affiliate of Prudential Financial, has sold two buildings at Waterfront Place, an office property in Shanghai’s Putuo District to Blackrock according to JLL which advised PGIM on the disposal.
The US alternative investment giant… Read More>>
China Taiping and Friends Buy HK Office Tower From Henderson for $1.3B
Henderson Land Development has signed an agreement to sell an office tower in Hong Kong’s North Point for HK$9.95 billion ($1.27 billion), to mainland-backed firm Fans Group Limited, according to media accounts. The reported deal would set a new record… Read More>>
Ascendas-Singbridge Buys Seoul Office Tower for $92M
Singapore’s Ascendas-Singbridge is adding to its office acquisitions in South Korea by picking up a newly-completed, mid-rise office building in Seoul’s Gangnam district for S$124.3 million ($91.8 million).
A fund managed by the real estate firm acquired the 15-storey, 19,578… Read More>>
