Having earlier this month charged former Van Thinh Phat boss Truong My Lan and 85 co-defendants with embezzling VND 304 trillion ($12 billion), Vietnamese authorities now say they are tracking the company’s laundering of its ill-gotten cash through real estate… Read More>>
Jailed Vietnamese Property Tycoon, 85 Accomplices Indicted for Allegedly Embezzling $12B
Jailed Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan, whose family built a cache of properties in Hong Kong and Singapore worth hundreds of millions of dollars, has been indicted with 85 co-defendants on charges of embezzling VND 304 trillion ($12 billion)… Read More>>
Vietnam Says Van Thinh Phat Committed $1.2B Fraud and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
The scam that brought down Vietnam’s real estate market leads today’s collection of headlines from around the region, with police in Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economy giving an update on the Van Thinh Phat saga. Also in the news, Evergrande resumes… Read More>>
Frasers Lands Green Loan for Singapore Tower and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, Singapore-based Frasers Property refinances a large loan coming due next month, and Hong Kong investor Eric Chu tries to dump assets in a weak market. Also making the cut are developers on the… Read More>>
Viva Land Selling Singapore Office Tower at 20% Mark-Down After Vietnam Arrests
Viva Land has agreed to sell 39 Robinson Road in Singapore for S$399 million ($300 million), parting with the core office asset at a more than 20 percent mark-down just over five months after a Vietnamese tycoon linked to the… Read More>>
Vietnam-Linked Eric Chu Sells Quarry Bay Site at 36% Off Following Wife’s Arrest
A few months after the fraud arrest of his wife in Ho Chi Minh City, local businessman Eric Chu Nap-Kee has sold a commercial and residential site on Hong Kong island at the heavily discounted price of HK$435 million ($55.46… Read More>>
Viva Land Marketing Singapore Assets at 10% Off After Vietnam Fraud Arrests
After setting Singapore price records with its purchases of an office tower and a five-star hotel along Robinson Road, Viva Land is seeking to unload both assets for around S$670 million ($506.7 million), according to market sources.
The urgent sale… Read More>>
China Home Prices Fall for 13th Month and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
China’s ongoing real estate struggles lead today’s news from around the real estate world, with home prices falling for a thirteenth straight month, as sales dropped 15 percent during September. That slide also includes developer Yango Group being hit with… Read More>>
Vietnamese Tycoon Arrested for Swindling, Linked to Singapore’s Viva Land, CK Asset
A Vietnamese tycoon linked to Singapore’s Viva Land, who has has partnered with Li Ka-Shing’s CK Asset, was arrested by police in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday on charges of swindling investors out of trillions of Vietnamese dong. (VND… Read More>>