Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Blackstone’s net profit fell 21 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, as underperformance in its real estate business weighed on the firm’s profitability.
The world’s largest alternative asset manager posted quarterly net profit of $948.4 million, sliding… Read More>>
A series of defaults in Korea’s property market are creating opportunities for fund managers, with news of new distressed debt strategies leading Mingtiandi’s headline roundup today. Also in the news, Hong Kong home prices head south again as a post-policy… Read More>>
Blackstone’s opportunistic and core-plus real estate funds grew in value by 7.1 percent and 10.3 percent in 2022, as the world’s largest property fund manager continues to see “a lot of growth” ahead for its investments in Asia.
Despite this… Read More>>
In today’s edition of our regional news roundup, Singapore real estate website PropertyGuru mulls a US listing via merger with a SPAC, private equity bigfoot Blackstone takes steps to reopen its regional office in Seoul, and regulatory filings show that… Read More>>
In Mingtiandi’s latest roundup of regional news headlines, Hong Kong approves the sale of a US consular property on Shouson Hill after resolving a diplomatic impasse, while Blackstone bigwig Stephen Schwarzman deals with a backlash over his political leanings.
Blackstone’s global head of real estate, Jonathan Gray, will take the reins as president and chief operating officer of the US private equity giant effective March 1. The 26-year Blackstone veteran will take over day-to-day management of the New York-based… Read More>>
Chinese conglomerate HNA has faced a barrage of bad news lately, as four of its mainland-listed companies halted trading and the once super-buyer has now turned high-interest borrower.
There was at least a ray of sunshine for the airlines to… Read More>>
At the top of today’s headlines, the head of private equity giant Blackstone sees America’s new president revising his views on China’s currency policies. Also in the news, Hong Kong’s housing-starved residents continue to line up for new homes, while… Read More>>
What’s another $250 million to a billionaire? Probably not much, but it still wasn’t a bad five days at the office for Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman whose net worth jumped a quarter of a billion dollars last week thanks to… Read More>>
Private equity billionaire Stephen A Schwarzman, whose Blackstone Group has been an aggressive investor in China, last weekend marked the start of a new $435 million elite scholarship program at Beijing’s Tsinghua University campus. Schwarzman Scholars welcomed its inaugural class… Read More>>
