Asia real estate and outbound investment news
International investors are turning their attention to South Korean logistics as the country’s significant e-commerce market ushers in a new generation of real estate.
At 18 percent, South Korea’s ecommerce penetration rate – the percentage of sales made online compared… Read More>>
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has teamed up with Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC to buy a landmark office tower in Seoul for 418 billion won ($380 million). The global investment giants will each take a 50 percent… 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>>
Singapore home sales jumped 37 percent in January compared to the same month last year, but it didn’t take long for the city-state to react to the sudden real estate surge as regulators roll out a new tax on luxury… Read More>>
Korean institutional investors have chalked up another cross-border property deal, with a unit of Samsung buying a London office building for an estimated price of up to £320 million ($457 million).
Samsung SRA Asset Management, the real estate investment arm… Read More>>
There’s good news and bad news in today’s real estate roundup, starting with a Chinese developer taking a loss on a Melbourne office that it bought for the supposedly lucky price of A$88,888,888. Some cities in northern Britain aren’t so… Read More>>
Leading the news today, Dalian Wanda Group continues to unwind its overseas property empire, with reports emerging that the Chinese conglomerate is close to selling its flagship Australian projects — and the buyer could be a controversial mainland developer. Things… Read More>>
