Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Slower sales and rising land prices will put stress on some of China’s real estate developers this year according to recent reports by credit agencies Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s.
The warnings from the ratings agencies happened in the same week that China saw its first default of a corporate bond as the country’s leaders attempt to wean businesses from their addiction to cheap credit.
CIFI Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd., one of the 100 biggest real estate developers in China announced today that it had achieved contracted sales of RMB15.32 billion in 2013, representing a significant increase of 60.5 percent over the RMB9.54 billion it… Read More>>
A recent US$877 million share buy-back by real estate developer Guangzhou Evergrande has market observers puzzled regarding the Hong Kong-listed firm’s financial strategy.
The shares were purchased by the developer over a two week period this month, and amount to 6.33 percent of the company’s total stock. This move follows soon after an unexpected RMB 2.3 billion (US$378 million) special dividend that the company paid to shareholders in November.
Two top executives of Glorious Property Holdings Ltd. (845) resigned last week – less than one month after a failed buyout attempt by the troubled China real estate developer’s former chairman Zhang Zhirong.
The departure of Glorious CEO Liu Ning… Read More>>
A privately owned Hong Kong real estate developer added to the flood of Chinese money into Australia this week by picking up the Melbourne Park Hyatt Hotel for a reported A$135 million (US$119.78 million).
The five star hotel is located near Melbourne’s Parliament House at 1 St Andrews Place and was developed in 1999 by Lustig & Moar at a cost of $150 million. The sale involves both the 240 room Park Hyatt hotel and an adjoining commercial car park.
Evergrande Real Estate Group, one of China’s five largest real estate developers is adopting an aggressive approach to renegotiating its current debt commitment as the nation’s real estate firms search for ways to continue to financing their businesses amidst a government crackdown.
The company made a controversial compensation offer to existing bondholders recently, which appears aimed at making it easier for the Guangzhou-based firm to take on further debt.
Blackstone Group has effectively taken over control of Hong Kong-listed real estate developer Tysan Holdings by buying up 71 percent of the shares in the company, as the global private equity giant seeks easier access to China real estate opportunities.
According an annoucement in the Shanghai Securities News, Blackstone acquired 65.5 percent of the shares on January 3rd for HK$1.64 billion ($211.5 million)
China’s office developments are set to expand by 173 percent by 2016, according to a recent survey, as real estate developers rush to take advantage of the country’s growing commercial sector.
The report by Insite Asset Management, a Chinese consulting firm which advises real estate developers and manages properties, predicts that the nation’s developers will roll out 58 million square metres of new offices nationwide by the end of 2016.
Real estate developer and attention-seeker Pan Shiyi led the media on a pollution-checking tour of Shanghai’s subway on Friday in an apparent attempt to ensure the public that the city’s public transport was pretty ok.
Pan’s day job may be… Read More>>
Not content with being China’s second largest real estate developer or winning the AFC Champions League soccer crown, Guanzhou-based Evergrande Group announced orders worth RMB 5.7 billion ($940 million) for its new bottled water brand, Evergrande Spring over the weekend.
At a ceremony in the city of Qingyuan in Guangdong, the company’s chairman, Xu Jiayin announced plans to…
