Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China’s second-largest e-commerce company by sales, JD.com, has opened its first unmanned store in Xiong’an New Area, a new district being built just south of Beijing that the central government intends to develop into a new economic hub.
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China’s second-ranking e-commerce company continues to expand its online empire into the offline world as JD.com’s founder and chief executive vowed late last week to open 1,000 stores every day this year.
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naked Hub, the biggest premium coworking operator in Asia, has become the first flexible office provider to offer online, on-demand access to space with the launch this week of its naked Hub GO service.
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After failed attempts to sell Evergrande-branded cooking oil and bottled water, Chinese property tycoon Xu Jiayin has fixed on AI and quantum physics as the newest business opportunities for the country’s second-ranked home builder by contracted sales.
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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>>
