Asia real estate and outbound investment news
The cloud-breaching Lotte World Tower in Seoul has been recognized as the best new skyscraper in the world, beating out Zaha Hadid Architects’ Generali Tower in Milan and 150 North Riverside Plaza in Chicago.
The tapered 555-metre, 123-storey glass and… Read More>>
Singapore-listed Datapulse Technology has announced that it has agreed to purchase the 127-room Hotel Aropa in Seoul for KRW 35 billion ($31 million), becoming the second Singaporean firm within the past month to acquire a Korean hotel, despite fears of… Read More>>
Ascendas Hospitality Trust continues to expand its presence in Seoul as the manager of the Singapore-listed trust has agreed to purchase its second hotel in the South Korean capital in less than seven months.
The trust, which already owns a… Read More>>
M&G Real Estate, together with a pair of Korean pension funds, has purchased Centropolis Towers in Seoul for 1.18 trillion won ($1 billion). The transaction, the largest single real estate deal in the country’s history, was completed as the office… Read More>>
China’s troubled HNA Group leads the region’s real estate news again today as the once-trigger happy buyer continues to unload assets around the globe. Chen Feng’s transport and tourism-focused group is now said to be selling off Minnesota’s Radisson Hotel… Read More>>
While the words Korea and Singapore have dominated the news headlines this week, some of the world’s biggest real estate investors are focusing their gaze on the suddenly less exciting South Korea, where chances of a meaningful sale and purchase… Read More>>
M&G Real Estate is poised to scoop up South Korea’s most expensive single property, as the arm of British insurer Prudential Plc will reportedly soon strike a deal to buy a new twin tower office complex in downtown Seoul for… Read More>>
Singapore-listed Ascendas Hospitality Trust has made its first foray into South Korea with a 73 billion won ($68.3 million) deal for a 215-room hotel in Seoul.
The trust, which already owns a portfolio of 11 hotels with over 4,000 rooms… Read More>>
Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm has bought a recently completed logistics warehouse in Icheon City, south of Seoul for 61.2 billion won ($57.4 million), as global real estate investors pile into Korea’s modernising logistics sector.
DWS (formerly Deutsche Asset Management)… Read More>>
A consortium led by US private equity giant KKR & Co is poised to land the biggest single-asset property deal in South Korean history by scooping up a twin office tower complex in Seoul worth an estimated 1.1 trillion won… Read More>>
