Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
A Chinese insurer made another record breaking real estate acquisition this week, but in the case of London’s Walbrook building the buyer didn’t come from the mainland.
Taiwan’s Cathay Life made its second major purchase of a UK office asset… Read More>>
Greenland Group, which last year grew to become China’s largest real estate developer, started growing its business in the UK last week when it ground on a ₤600 million ($922 million) residential project.
The Ram Quarter project is one of… Read More>>
China’s Ping An Insurance has made its second acquisition of a major London real estate asset by acquiring Tower Place in the city’s insurance district for ₤327 million ($490 million) according to sources familiar with deal.
The purchase of the… Read More>>
A real estate agent in London’s red hot housing market hopes to sell more homes to Chinese buyers by handling transactions in the Bitcoin virtual currency.
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, fledgling UK home brokerage… Read More>>
Dalian Wanda, the property developer headed by China’s richest man, plans to invest up to 3 billion pounds ($5 billion) in regeneration projects in Britain, Britain’s prime minister said on Friday.
Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled the investment after meeting Dalian Wanda’s chairman Wang Jianlin in Davos this week. It comes after Cameron led the largest-ever British mission to China last December that involved about 100 business people.
While China’s investors have been buying up London real estate in recent years, and firms like Greenland Group and Dalian Wanda have made billion dollar acquisitions of commercial properties, the country’s nouveau riche are now moving into the English countryside.
According to a story from the UK’s Guardian, Chinese investors are among the growing numbers of rich foreigners buying farms and country estates across Britain.
Following through on a deal originally announced in June, Chinese real estate developer Dalian Wanda last week completed the acquisition of the One Nine Elms project for more than US1.1 billion from the UK’s Green Property.
According to an announcement… Read More>>
According to a recently released report on London residential real estate, wealthy Chinese are helping to lead an Asian surge into UK property.
The report, which was released on January 16th by real estate consultancy Knight Frank, found that 50… Read More>>
Here is a list of the day’s latest China real estate news collected from around the web:
Chinese listed property developers are under pressure to decrease the size of their inventories,… Read More>>
