Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Blackstone has snapped up a portfolio of Japanese warehouses that includes online shopping giant Amazon’s Greater Tokyo distribution centre for around JPY 100 billion ($920 million), as the US investment manager zeroes in on Japanese e-commerce.
Blackstone confirmed that a… Read More>>
Hong Kong private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners has acquired a 13-storey office tower in Tokyo’s posh Aoyama area, the company confirmed in a conversation with Mingtiandi today without revealing financial details of the transaction.
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Asia logistics real estate platform ESR announced on March 29 that it has acquired a parcel of land on Japan’s Tokyo Bay for development of a $1 billion warehouse facility.
The Warburg Pincus-backed developer specified that the $1 billion represents… Read More>>
AEW Capital Management has opened a new office in Tokyo, as it expands its Asia Pacific real estate investment business into Japan, according to a recent statement by the Boston-based fund manager.
The Tokyo outpost is led by Steve Bass,… Read More>>
Germany’s Patrizia Immobilien has acquired Kenzo Capital Corporation, a Tokyo-based real estate advisory and asset management firm, giving the European real estate investment manager its first foothold in Japan.
Augsburg-based Patrizia unveiled the move in an announcement this week noting… Read More>>
With tourism in Japan booming and the 2020 Olympic Games on the horizon, investors have been taking a closer look at the country’s hotels.
Over 28.7 million travelers descended on Japan in 2017, up 19 percent from the previous year,… Read More>>
LaSalle’s latest Asia opportunity fund has acquired a hotel near Tokyo Disneyland. The real estate investment group announced the investment in the 216 room, eight-storey asset as an opportunity to profit from a Japanese tourism boom as inbound traveller numbers… Read More>>
Japanese real estate giant Mitsui Fudosan has paid 85.03 billion yen ($811 million) for an 89-year-old building in Tokyo, a price 183 percent higher than expected by the seller, according to a report in Japan Property Central.
The seller of… Read More>>
A group of investors led by Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific Land have sold the Shiba Park Building, once Japan’s most expensive en bloc asset, for a reported 150 billion yen ($1.4 billion), according to Tokyo-based brokerage Japan Property Central.
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GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, is acquiring a 43 percent stake in Shinjuku MAYNDS Tower, a 97,978 square metre Grade-A office property in Tokyo for 62.5 billion yen ($558 million), according to a press release from the fund yesterday.
The… Read More>>
