Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Japanese telecom KDDI has begun operations at its AI data centre south of Osaka, less than 10 months after buying the former LCD factory site from Sharp for JPY 10 billion (then $68 million).
The 48-megawatt facility comprises 57,000 square… Read More>>
Blackstone has agreed to buy a hotel in central Osaka from Singaporean builder City Developments Ltd for JPY 14 billion ($89.3 million), as the US fund management giant continues to bulk up on Japanese hospitality assets.
The acquisition of the… Read More>>
Fund manager AB Capital has purchased two hotels in Osaka for renovation and repositioning under Marriott International’s midscale City Express brand.
The acquisitions mark Hong Kong-based AB’s 10th and 11th hotels in Japan and the debut of City Express by… Read More>>
Osaka has wrapped up its biggest tourism event in decades with the close of the World Expo earlier this month, but a Singapore-linked asset manager is buying a retail building along the city’s best-known shopping strip in a bet that… Read More>>
Swedish fund manager EQT has completed the sale of a Holiday Inn Express hotel in central Osaka to TSE-listed Orix JREIT for JPY 22.5 billion ($148.4 million).
Funds managed by Baring Private Equity Asia, now part of EQT, had acquired… Read More>>
NTT Global Data Centers has begun construction of a 36-megawatt Osaka hyperscale campus, according to a statement this week.
A groundbreaking ceremony at the site in Ibaraki City, 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) north of central Osaka, took place on 1… Read More>>
EdgeConneX has secured a second data centre site in Greater Osaka, boosting the hyperscale specialist’s platform in Japan to a planned capacity of 350 megawatts.
The EQT-backed developer and operator plans to develop the new site into as much as… Read More>>
CapitaLand Ascott Trust has acquired two rental housing properties in Osaka and a third in Kyoto for a total of JPY 4 billion ($27 million), as Asia Pacific’s biggest lodging REIT continues to fine-tune its portfolio with a focus on… Read More>>
Industrial specialist ESR has launched a JPY 70 billion ($474 million) fund to enable the sale of a 50 percent stake in a Greater Osaka warehouse billed as Japan’s largest.
Four Japanese corporate heavyweights, including insurer Dai-ichi Life and developer… Read More>>
KKR’s Tokyo-listed commercial REIT has agreed to sell a pair of suburban Osaka malls for a total of JPY 25.8 billion ($175 million) as the trust seeks to unload the properties at their point of maximum profitability.
Japan Metropolitan Fund… Read More>>
