Asia real estate and outbound investment news
The managers of ESR-REIT and Viva Industrial Trust (VIT) have announced a proposed merger that would create Singapore’s fourth-largest industrial real estate investment trust by asset value, totalling about S$3 billion ($2.2 billion).
Through the proposed deal, which would mark… Read More>>
Amazon will soon have a new landlord in India’s fourth largest city, as Ascendas India Trust announced today that it is acquiring seven buildings in a business park in Hyderabad.
The Singapore-listed affiliate of developer Ascendas-Singbridge is paying a combined… Read More>>
A privatised government-built estate in Singapore’s Novena neighbourhood was sold for S$402 million ($299 million) in a collective sale tender late last week, adding to a total of S$2.88 billion ($2.1 billion) of residential and mixed-use land sales in the… Read More>>
Architecture firm Benoy has won an international competition to design a 300,000 square metre, mixed-use project in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou for one of China’s biggest developers, the UK-based company announced today.
The project, COFCO Joy Breeze, integrates… Read More>>
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC is making its first foray into China’s rental housing market by establishing a joint venture with Warburg Pincus-backed rental housing startup Nova. According to a joint announcement today by GIC, Nova and Warburg Pincus, the… Read More>>
Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners has joined with an affiliate of China’s largest developer by sales to set up a new $1 billion special situations fund targetting distressed real estate opportunities in the country.
Gaw is launching… Read More>>
On the same day that a court in Shanghai sentenced Anbang Insurance founder Wu Xiaohui to 18 years in prison, a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange gave an indication of the fate of the once-renegade Chinese insurer’s domestic… Read More>>
The future of retail is about to be delivered to Hong Kong’s commercial developers, and it’s coming via the Internet, according to a report released today by property consultancy JLL.
The company’s report on the city’s shopping scene, “Reimagining Retail… Read More>>
GIC is ramping up its exposure to Indian real estate, with an investment firm managed by the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund buying a stake in Mumbai-based developer Godrej Properties Ltd for about Rs 1,000 crore ($150 million).
Godrej Properties said… Read More>>
Singapore-listed Keppel DC REIT has entered a deal to buy a data centre in the city-state for S$295 million ($221 million), as Singapore’s thriving market for outsourced data storage posts 13 percent annual revenue growth.
Keppel DC REIT, a dedicated… Read More>>
