Selling face cream is not the usual path to owning large commercial buildings but, with some help from WeChat, a Chinese beauty products brand controlled a by a celebrity couple just purchased a Pudong office block for RMB 1.76 billion… Read More>>
Blackstone Buys $54M Stake in Indian Logistics Portfolio and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Warehouses lead the real estate news today around Asia as US private equity giant Blackstone ups its bets on India’s logistics sector and a Korean institution buys the UK’s largest car distribution centre before it’s even finished. Southeast Asia’s wealthiest… Read More>>
Allianz Fund Buys India Office Complex from Tishman Speyer, GIC for $250M
A fund backed by Allianz Real Estate and Indian developer Shapoorji Pallonji Group has notched India’s biggest commercial real estate deal of the year as the managers of the investment vehicle have agreed to purchase a landmark Hyderabad office development… Read More>>
HNA Restructures $372M Stake in Tishman Speyer NYC Project
HNA Group is transferring ownership of its interest in a $3.6 billion New York trophy project as liquidity problems continue to challenge one of China’s most debt-laden conglomerates.
Under the terms of the deal set out in a filing to… Read More>>
Asia Real Estate People in the News 2019-08-12
In this week’s edition of People in the News, a Softbank-backed budget hotel chain has made a double leadership appointment, naming a new chief operating officer for India and South Asia as well as a chief executive officer for Southeast… Read More>>
ARA Teams Up with CICC Capital to Buy Chengdu Mall From Tishman Speyer Fund
After selling a pair of mainland commercial properties late last year for a combined RMB 5.56 billion, Singapore’s ARA Asset Management this month entered into a joint venture to buy a Chengdu retail property from a Tishman Speyer-managed fund.
For… Read More>>
HNA Adds Nine Overseas Properties to Fire Sale
Just days after stories emerged of China’s HNA Group putting some 82 properties on the market, a list of nine overseas properties being offered for sale by the defaulting conglomerate has been obtained by mainland news website, thepaper.cn.
HNA’s latest… Read More>>
GIC, Tishman Said Selling India Project for $314M and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
At the top of today’s pan-Asian grab bag of headlines, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and a leading US developer are reportedly looking to sell a joint venture office project in one of India’s tech clusters. Also in the news, Hong… Read More>>
Tishman Speyer Signs $1.4B Deal with Chinese Online Wealth Manager Creditease
American real estate developer Tishman Speyer signed a funding agreement with the wealth management arm of China’s fintech heavyweight CreditEase this week which could provide the US company with as much as $1.4 billion in funding from Chinese consumers.
The… Read More>>
Tishman Speyer Teams with Lenovo for $1.35B Shenzhen Project
Real estate developer Tishman Speyer continues to bet on the China dream with the US company announcing last week that it has secured its first project in Shenzhen, through a RMB 9 billion ($1.35 billion) joint venture with mainland high… Read More>>