Sovereign funds, Swiss banks and French châteaux feature in today’s real estate headlines from around the region as China’s CIC is said to have found a new chief among the ranks at the country’s Bank of Communications, and finance heavyweight… Read More>>
UBS, APG Set Up Japan Multi-Family Venture and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s real estate headlines, the global search for yield takes a Dutch pension fund and a Swiss asset manager into Japan’s rental apartment market for a new $175 million venture. A bit closer to the equator, US private equity… Read More>>
Hong Kong Home Prices Fall for the First Time in 29 Months
Hong Kong’s private home prices marked their first decline in 29 months only days after Hong Kong banks announced hikes in raising their benchmark lending rates for the first time in more than a decade. The city’s notoriously high home… Read More>>
First Mortgage Rate Hike in 12 Years Ends Cheap Borrowing Era in Hong Kong
After 12 years of enjoying rock-bottom interest rates, mortgage-holders in the world’s most expensive city in which to buy a home saw their days of cheap financing come to an abrupt end this past week as some 13 banks announced… Read More>>
Victor Li Buys UBS London Headquarters From GIC, British Land For $1.3B
Just one month after taking over from his father Li Ka-shing, Victor Li has signed his first high profile deal for CK Asset, snapping up the UBS headquarters in London from GIC and British Land for £1 billion ($1.3 billion).
Greenland Bets on E-Sports Arenas And More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Today’s news roundup takes a detour into China’s booming e-sports scene, with top-six mainland developer Greenland pledging to build stadiums and theme parks across the country’s biggest cities to cater to legions of computer gaming fanatics. Another top property group… Read More>>
Frasers Centrepoint Bids S$955M for Former Zouk Site and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Singapore’s development fever leads the regional news again today as the city’s best-known Thai-owned developer leads the bidding for a condo site which remains vaguely familiar from Mingtiandi’s misspent youth. Also in the headlines, Southeast Asia’s fine city is all… Read More>>
HK Unsustainable, SG Set for Rebound Says UBS Housing Bubble Survey
An annual study of housing markets worldwide by investment bank UBS has identified Hong Kong as one of the world’s riskiest places to buy a home, while sizing up Singapore as a market ready for an upswing.
In its 2017… Read More>>
UBS Bubble Index Shows Impact of Chinese Investors on Vancouver, Sydney
As housing markets on the mainland have started to look more dicey, Chinese home buyers have flocked to global gateway cities such as Vancouver and Sydney, driving up home prices and stunning local residents.
Analysts have cautioned that mainland capital… Read More>>
Ascendas Hotel REIT Cancels Sale of $1B Platform and More China Real Estate Headlines
After months of speculating whether Blackstone Group, Gaw Capital or a Chinese sovereign wealth fund would buy up the assets of Ascendas’ $1 billion hotel REIT, the Singapore-based real estate trust announced this week that no deal would be forthcoming…. Read More>>