Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Savills Investment Management has become the latest fund manager to bet on Japan’s multi-family sector this year with the announcement of a $200 million financing round today.
The investment management affiliate of London-based Savills raised the cash to reach a… Read More>>
Veteran fund manager Greg Lapham has joined Savills Investment Management in Hong Kong, as the property investment arm of London-listed property services firm Savills continues to build its team in the region.
A representative of the firm confirmed to Mingtiandi… Read More>>
Seoul-based Vestas Investment Management has acquired a distribution centre in central Poland on behalf of Korean institutional investors for €71 million ($78 million), as the European logistics market continues to draw Asian capital.
Savills Investment Management said in a statement… Read More>>
Savills Investment Management’s former head of asset management for Asia, Craig Pearce, has established a real estate investment consultancy firm, Nikota Capital.
Pearce is targeting Japan with his new advisory platform, primarily concentrating on assisting professional investors source, structure and… Read More>>
Arch Capital Management is buying Anson House in Singapore for S$210 million ($152 million), according to market sources.
A sale and purchase agreement is due to be signed this week, with Arch acting on behalf of an unnamed German fund,… Read More>>
In this week’s edition of People in the News, a GIC veteran leaves the sovereign wealth fund for a private equity role, while the investment wing of the UK’s biggest property agency adds some talent in Singapore and Dalian Wanda’s… Read More>>
Savills Investment Management has appointed Alex Jeffrey as its new chief executive officer ending a period of transition in the real estate investment firm’s management which has endured since global CEO and chairman Justin O’Connor quit the UK firm in… Read More>>
Starbucks may have a new competitor in the competition to satisfy China’s caffeine addicts after an up and coming mainland coffee shop chain announced today that it had raised another $200 million. Also in the headlines, Savills Investment Management has… Read More>>
Movie stars finally make their way into Mingtiandi today as Taiwanese glamour gal Shu Qi gives a low-key celebrity endorsement to a Hong Kong project with her recent HK$127 million purchase of a home in the mid-levels tower. Meanwhile, Swire… Read More>>
The challenges of finding a new home in Hong Kong may be too much even for top property fund managers as Savills Investment Management’s chairman and chief executive Justin O’Connor announced his resignation yesterday, just one month before he was… Read More>>
