Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Companies controlled by Singaporean tycoon Kwek Leng Beng and his cousin, Malaysian magnate Quek Leng Chan, have teamed up to buy a prime freehold site in the city’s River Valley neighborhood for S$980 million ($744 million).
The deal is Singapore’s… Read More>>
Singapore once again takes the crown as Asia’s best city for expatriates, according to the Mercer 2018 Quality of Living survey which grades 231 cities according to factors like banking services, political stability, healthcare, electricity and crime. The top placement… Read More>>
As jet travel has become more common, it has also often become an ordeal as passengers scurry through security drills, and rush through increasingly crowded concourses to catch their planes on time.
When Changi Airport Group, which manages… Read More>>
Asia Pacific is home to four of the top ten most expensive cities in the world for expatriates and business travelers, according to a new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The biannual survey by the research and advisory… Read More>>
Global property brokerage JLL is sending Tim Graham from London to Singapore, where he will take the newly created role of Senior Director of International Capital for JLL Asia Pacific. Reporting to Stuart Crow, Head of Asia Pacific Capital Markets,… Read More>>
Singapore’s 2018 crop of 22 billionaires include 16 real estate tycoons with a total fortune of $43.7 billion, which grew nearly 10 percent from last year, according to the latest Forbes rich list.
The 2018 ranking by the media company… Read More>>
Singapore-based real estate fund manager ARA Asset Management is continuing a global growth strategy by acquiring a 19.5 percent stake in an Aussie real estate investment manager, just a week after announcing a new platform for investments in Europe.
The… Read More>>
Asian cross-border capital flows are at the top of the news again today, as Hong Kong-based CLSA is moving into Europe by partnering with a London-based asset management player. Singapore’s acquisitive sovereign wealth fund is making a slightly shorter trip… Read More>>
Singapore boasts well over 100 flexible office centres and counting, and now property brokerage Savills is rolling out a new online platform to help fast-growing businesses cut through that thicket of options to find the space of their dreams.
The… Read More>>
Leading today’s news roundup, home prices slid in 11 of China’s biggest cities in January, as smaller conurbations continued to climb. Also in the headlines, prime office rents in Singapore’s downtown core are believed to have hit bottom at S$9… Read More>>
