Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Private equity giant KKR is set to enlarge its footprint in South Korea’s real estate market, teaming up with longtime local partner IGIS Asset Management to acquire Shinhan Investment Corporation’s Seoul headquarters for KRW 639.5 billion ($487 million).
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Logistics giant ESR is beefing up its second Korean development joint venture with APG and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, with plans to increase the vehicle’s total equity investment capacity to as much as $2 billion.
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After soaring to a record KRW 54 trillion ($42 billion) in 2021, investment in South Korea’s commercial property market is expected to decrease this year on concerns about rising interest rates, according to Colliers research.
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Temasek Holdings-backed ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has teamed up with Samsung Group’s property investment arm and an unnamed institutional investor to develop a 30 megawatt data centre in Seoul, marking its second facility in South Korea’s fast-growing digital infrastructure… Read More>>
South Korea’s logistics real estate market is on track for continued growth this year despite challenges from… Read More>>
Blackstone has hired Angelo Gordon veteran Chris Kim to lead the private equity giant’s newly created real estate team in South Korea, part of an expansion in the country that includes the opening of a new office in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun… Read More>>
Data centre startup Digital Edge has formed a KRW 1 trillion ($1 billion) joint venture to build a 120 megawatt server facility near Seoul which will rank as South Korea’s largest when completed, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
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Investors purchased $5.8 billion in stabilised logistics assets in South Korea during 2021 — a level which was more than four times the 2015 to 2019 average, according to data from MSCI-RCA. That surge in sales of completed assets marks… Read More>>
M&G Real Estate on Thursday announced its purchase of a 97 percent stake in a Greater Seoul office building for KRW 264.5 billion ($214.6 million), marking the UK fund manager’s fourth acquisition in South Korea since 2020 on behalf of… Read More>>
The vacancy rate in Seoul’s Grade A office sector fell to 4 percent in the first three months of the year, the lowest level since 2010, with a lack of new supply signalling a landlord’s market for at least the… Read More>>
