This week Greater China’s cadre of real estate professionals is in luck, because Mickey Mouse is still hiring in Shanghai. Over in Taiwan, things seem to have gotten too goofy for the head of one agency’s investment team, and a Chinese… Read More>>
Ping An and China Life Team with Tishman in $500M Boston Project
Two of China’s largest insurers took their first steps into the US market real estate market this week as American developer Tishman Speyer announced that China Life Insurance and Ping An Insurance would take a majority stake in a $500… Read More>>
Country Garden Raises $813M in Share Sale to Ping An Insurance
One of China’s top 10 developers replenished its cash supplies by selling HK$6.3 billion ($813 million) in new shares to Ping An Insurance as the country’s real estate companies grapple with a shortage of both customers and funds in 2015.
Dalian Wanda Raises $3.7B in Hong Kong’s Biggest IPO of 2014
Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties has raised US$3.7 billion through a Hong Kong IPO, after the Chinese real estate company belonging to PLA officer turned billionaire businessman Wang Jianlin is said to have priced its shares today.
A report in FinanceAsia… Read More>>
Are Down-Payment Loans Undermining China’s Home Equity?
“China’s home market will never crash because homeowners have to make big down-payments.” This line comes up in nearly every debate and discussion of China’s ever-controversial housing sector.
However, this reasoning may deserve some reconsideration after a recent report in… Read More>>
China Allowing More Borrowing For Real Estate as Market Slides
Just days after two private surveys reported that China’s average home prices continued to fall in August for the fourth straight month, there are growing signs that the government is allowing more borrowing in an attempt to bail out the… Read More>>
China’s Insurers in No Rush to Buy Real Estate
Mainland insurers are off to a slow start in property investments in and outside the country as they gradually build up specialised teams and pin down strategies following a relaxation of policies by state authorities.
In 2012, the industry… Read More>>
81 Percent of China’s Insurers Prefer to Invest in Real Estate
China’s insurance funds have US$1.19 trillion invested, and more than three-quarters of them are looking for real estate deals to spend their cash on, according to a report last week by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In a survey of executives at China’s insurance… Read More>>
China’s Overseas Real Estate Investment Passes US$5 Bil in 2013
China’s direct investment into international real estate in 2013 has already surpassed the total amount spent in 2013 as Chinese capital floods into global property markets.
According to a statement today by Jones Lang LaSalle, Chinese offshore real estate investment… Read More>>
Blackstone eyes distressed Chinese real estate – and more of Today’s China Real Estate Links | April 24, 2013
Here is a list of the day’s latest China real estate news collected from around the web:
Private equity giant Blackstone Group says it is turning its attention to distressed Chinese real… Read More>>