A few months after the fraud arrest of his wife in Ho Chi Minh City, local businessman Eric Chu Nap-Kee has sold a commercial and residential site on Hong Kong island at the heavily discounted price of HK$435 million ($55.46… Read More>>
Swire Properties Takes on More Hong Kong Projects Despite Challenging 2022 1H
Swire Properties saw revenue decrease by 26 percent in the first half of the year to HK$6.70 billion ($855 million) while its underlying net profit slid 8 percent to $4.14 billion as its retail and hotel businesses were hit by… Read More>>
Swire Closes in on $751M Quarry Bay Commercial Project
Swire Properties is closing in on a HK$5.9 billion ($751.9 million) commercial project on the eastern stretch of Hong Kong Island, having reportedly applied in June to force a sale of the remaining pieces which it does not already own… Read More>>
Swire Leases Six Floors at Two Taikoo Place to China CITIC Bank
Swire Properties has notched what is reportedly Hong Kong island’s biggest office lease since the dawn of the pandemic, with the local unit of China CITIC Bank agreeing to take up around 15 percent of the developer’s Two Taikoo Place… Read More>>
Henderson, Swire Redevelopment Plan Rejected and More Hong Kong Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s Hong Kong real estate news, Hong Kong giants Henderson Land and Swire Properties have had a joint commercial development application in Quarry Bay turned down despite snapping up a set of shops on the site for HK$82 million.
Henderson Land, Swire Properties Buying Up Quarry Bay Block Next to Taikoo Place
Henderson Land and Swire Properties are set to expand the Taikoo Place commercial cluster in eastern Hong Kong island after acquiring the majority of an aging residential building adjacent to the Quarry Bay development.
Within the last two weeks a… Read More>>
New World’s K11 Atelier King’s Road Project Now Half-Leased in Eastern Hong Kong
New World Development’s K11 division has won an occupancy permit for its latest Hong Kong office project, kicking off formal leasing activity for K11 Atelier King’s Road, according to an announcement by the company late last week.
The 22-storey office… Read More>>
Gaw Capital Takes 49% Stake in $1.9B Buyout of Swire’s Cityplaza
Half a month after Gaw Capital was first reported to be teaming up with Chinese investor Chen Changwei in an effort by the tycoon’s Hengli Group to purchase a pair of Hong Kong office towers, the private equity firm is… Read More>>
HK Market Watchdog Said Leasing 10 Floors in Swire’s Taikoo Place
A growing number of financial institutions have fled rising office rents in Hong Kong’s Central district this year, and now one of the government bodies charged with regulating the city’s financial markets appears to be following the migration of its… Read More>>
Gaw Capital Said to Invest in HK$15B Office Deal in Quarry Bay
Four months after buying a pair of Hong Kong office buildings from Swire Properties for HK$15 billion ($2 billion), a privately held affiliate of mainland investor Chen Chang Wei’s Hengli Group has reportedly recruited Gaw Capital Partners to take as… Read More>>