Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Mapletree Investments is proposing to merge Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT) and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MNACT) in a S$4.22 billion ($3.13 billion) deal which would create Asia’s seventh-largest REIT.
If shareholders approve, the merger would establish Mapletree Pan Asia… Read More>>
Singapore’s commercial real estate market rebounded sharply in 2021 with $9.6 billion in deals recorded across all property types as of mid-December, up from $3.2 billion in pandemic-struck 2020, according to Real Capital Analytics.
Including deals pending closure by year-end,… Read More>>
The new years has failed to bring good news for China Evergrande, which leads our headline roundup today with a report that a local government in Hainan has ordered the demolition of one of its resort projects in the tropical… Read More>>
LaSalle Investment Management has closed on its joint acquisition alongside a unit of Shanghai-based developer Jingrui Holdings of a retail and hotel property in the megacity’s Hongqiao area, with plans to convert the distressed asset into a multi-family residential project.
Eight months after Sin Capital Group unloaded its Robinson Road headquarters, a mixed-use building near swanky Orchard Road formerly owned by the Singapore private equity firm has been put up for sale at an indicative price of S$600 million ($442… Read More>>
Ascott Residence Trust has agreed to acquire four more US student accommodation assets for $213 million, bringing the Singapore-listed REIT’s portfolio of North American university housing to eight properties as it continues to expand beyond its roots in serviced apartments… Read More>>
Singapore’s Eagle Hospitality Trust leads the day’s headlines again, as a US court ruling promises to bring closure, if not cash, to investors in the defaulted hotel REIT.
Also in debt news today, China Evergrande is trying… Read More>>
Introduced just one week ago, Singapore’s residential cooling measures may have already frozen one project to death, with a report emerging today that Shun Tak Holdings has forfeited its S$556.7 million ($407.5 million) purchase of the High Point condo complex… Read More>>
Singapore’s CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust Management Limited (CICT) is set to buy a half stake in a North Sydney commercial complex from fund management giant Nuveen for A$422.0 million ($305 million), in a deal marking the acquisition of its third… Read More>>
Softbank- and Tencent-backed housing broker Beike has lashed out against accusations of “systemic fraud” levelled by Muddy Waters Research, a US investment firm famous for exposing fraud at since-bankrupt Chinese firms Luckin Coffee, Sino-Forest and NQ Mobile while shorting their… Read More>>
