Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Mainland ecommerce giant Alibaba revealed late last week that it has signed a cooperation agreement with five of China’s top 10 property developers to expand its Hema smart supermarket chain on the mainland.
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HNA may be struggling to stay afloat, but China’s late debt drunkard can at least feel good that some of its investments have paid off, according to our lead story today. Plus the conglomerate apparently still has some credit on… Read More>>
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com continues to expand its brick-and-mortar empire, building on its existing ventures in physical supermarkets and convenience stores by taking a cornerstone stake in the IPO of one of the mainland’s largest outlet mall chains.
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When 500 movers and shakers in Asia’s real estate scene huddled in Hong Kong today to talk about the latest trends in property investment, the discussion quickly turned to technology, from e-commerce to the blockchain, and its role in transforming… Read More>>
Singapore boasts well over 100 flexible office centres and counting, and now property brokerage Savills is rolling out a new online platform to help fast-growing businesses cut through that thicket of options to find the space of their dreams.
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At the top of today’s news, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is partnering with a group of global investors to shell out $5.4 billion for a controlling stake in the property business of France’s AccorHotel. Also in the headlines, debt-strapped… Read More>>
Nearly three million mainland visitors showed up in Singapore during the first 11 months of last year, and one of the city’s biggest shopping centres is angling to capture more of that PRC cash through a tie-up with Jack Ma’s… Read More>>
Singaporeans may soon be able to rate the city-state’s nearly 30,000 property agents in much the same way they assess restaurants and Uber drivers. The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA), a government body that regulates the industry, announced plans to… Read More>>
Indecisive shoppers can now sample, try out and purchase lipstick, mascara and other cosmetics in the dressing room armed with just a smartphone, but only in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.
The virtual reality make-up trials are a real… Read More>>
Premium co-working operator naked Hub has transformed the way more than 10,000 people work in Asia, and now the Shanghai-based startup is making it possible for any landlord to join the flexible office revolution.
As the next step in this… Read More>>
