Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Long-time China real estate executive Jonathan Davis headed south this week from Shanghai to Singapore, where he will start work as JLL’s new National Director for Business Operations in Southeast Asia starting from March 1st.
Davis, who served most recently… Read More>>
Private equity real estate firm Gaw Capital Partners has added another $921 million in new deals to its growing list of cross-border property acquisitions by picking up an office block in London and a hotel in Singapore, according to media… Read More>>
Colliers International Group announced on Tuesday that Tang Wei Leng has been appointed as managing director of the company’s Singapore business. The new hire represents a return to Colliers for the veteran agency operative, who takes over the post vacated… Read More>>
An office building in downtown Singapore has sold to a mainland Chinese investor for more than S$210 million ($150 million), through acquisition of equity in the company that owns the freehold building near the city’s upscale Marina Bay commercial area.
The quantity of new homes being built in Malaysia’s Johor state, just across the border from Singapore, now exceeds the entire stock of privately owned housing in the entire city-state, according to a statement last week from a Singaporean government… Read More>>
The cost of living in China’s major cities is now higher than in Hong Kong or Singapore, according to a survey of expatriate cost of living published this week by a global human resources consultancy.
The survey by ECA International… Read More>>
Much of the world may be holding its breath waiting for the next Chinese developer to fail, but investors in Singapore seem to still have a healthy appetite for debt from China’s real estate firms.
According to a story in… Read More>>
A Chinese developer is teaming up with the company behind one of Singapore’s Sentosa casinos to invest US$2.2 billion in a new gambling-centred project in South Korea, the companies announced this week.
The joint venture between Genting Singapore Plc and… Read More>>
It was a busy week in China for Singapore’s government linked property companies, as both CapitaMalls Asia and Ascendas’ A-REIT announced real estate acquisitions totalling RMB 2.33 billion.
CapitaMalls Asia, which is part of the CapitaLand Group, announced on Monday… Read More>>
Singaporean real estate developer, Mapletree Investments Pte. Ltd, is said to be planning a US$1.5 billion initial public offering of China real estate assets early in 2013.
Last week, an unidentified source said to have knowledge of the IPO indicated… Read More>>
