Shopping centres seem to be swinging back into style with investors and a story on Indonesia’s Lippo Group preparing to sell a Jakarta mall leads Mingtiandi’s set of real estate headlines from around the region today. There’s also signs of… Read More>>
Blackstone Kicks Off $722M IPO for India’s First REIT
India’s first real estate investment trust – the Blackstone-sponsored Embassy Office Parks REIT – kicked off its IPO on Monday with the manager filing draft documents with the regulator.
The country’s maiden REIT will debut some four years after the… Read More>>
Keppel-KBS US REIT Buys Seattle Business Campus for $169M
Keppel-KBS US REIT on Monday announced that has agreed to buy a 21 building business park in Washington state, picking up the commercial assets some 15 minutes’ drive from Microsoft’s home office in Seattle for $175.7 million including fees of… Read More>>
Logistics Group ESR Launches $505M Bid for Australia’s PropertyLink
Warburg Pincus-backed ESR has made a $505 million all-cash offer for Sydney-based real estate investment manager Propertylink, according to an announcement to the Australian stock exchange late last week.
The Pan-Asian warehouse investment platform’s Australian arm, is offering A$1.15 per… Read More>>
Blackstone Boosts Asset Portfolio in Run-Up to $1B India REIT IPO
Blackstone is transferring more investments into India’s first real estate investment trust just ahead of the proposed initial offering. The US investment giant’s local partner in the pioneering real estate deal, Embassy Group, is said to also be tweaking its… Read More>>
Blackstone, Embassy Prepare for $1B IPO of India’s First REIT
Private equity giant Blackstone and Bangalore’s Embassy Group are getting ready to list India’s first real estate investment trust as they target a $1 billion September IPO for a joint venture business park porfolio.
The New York-based investment group and… Read More>>
Blackstone Bets on Aussie Offices with $2.3B Bid for Investa Office Fund
US private equity giant Blackstone has placed a A$3.08 billion ($2.3 billion) cash bid to take over Investa Office Fund (IOF), an Australia-listed real estate investment trust with a portfolio of 20 downtown office assets in Sydney and other cities.
CapitaLand Commercial Trust Lands in Europe with $421M Frankfurt Office Deal
Singapore’s CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT) is making its first foray outside of Asia to pick up a 38-storey, grade A commercial tower in Frankfurt, Germany for €356 million ($420.8 million).
CCT, Singapore’s largest commercial REIT by market cap, will take… Read More>>
Country Garden Issues RMB 1.7B in Rental Housing-Backed Securities
Guangzhou-based developer Country Garden has successfully sold off RMB 1.7 billion ($270 million) in securities backed by cashflows from its rental housing initiative, according to a report in the official Shanghai Securities News on Friday.
The sale, which has been… Read More>>
Christina Tan Takes Over as Chair of Keppel Data Centre REIT
The manager of Keppel DC REIT, which owns more than one million square feet of data centre space, has appointed Christina Tan as chairman of the board of directors of the Singapore-listed trust, effective Wednesday.
The new role comes in… Read More>>