Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Phoenix Property Investors has disposed of a row of shophouses in Singapore’s Chinatown for S$54 million ($39 million), according to Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI), which purchased the historically preserved buildings.
The asset management arm of London-listed Standard Life Aberdeen confirmed… Read More>>
Southeast Asia’s e-commerce sector quadrupled from 2015 through 2018, and property consultancy JLL has taken steps to help the region’s online shopping networks find the warehouses needed to deliver a growing barrage of packages.
The company’s former head of industrial… Read More>>
Blackstone has raised its bid for Unizo Holdings to JPY 192 billion ($1.76 billion), forcing fresh moves by rivals Lone Star Funds and Fortress Investment Group in the contest for the Tokyo-listed hotelier and real estate investment firm.
Blackstone said… Read More>>
Starwood Capital Group has recommitted to its A$485 million ($326 million) bid for Australian Unity Office Fund (AOF), despite a move late last week by the REIT’s sponsor and Keppel Capital that appeared to frustrate the hostile takeover attempt.
Investor… Read More>>
Shared office provider WeWork has found a new chief executive as the financially challenged company takes another step in its struggle for profitability.
Brookfield Properties executive Sandeep Mathrani will join the New York-based firm as CEO on 18 February, according… Read More>>
Property consultancy Colliers International has brought in a new face to run its Korean operation, with the Toronto-based firm installing Robert Wilkinson as the head of its Seoul office starting this week.
Wilkinson, who has been with Colliers since 2011,… Read More>>
Plunging property sales lead the way in Mingtiandi’s roundup of Asia real estate headlines today with HSBC predicting a bleak 2020 for mainland China’s real estate market.
In other news around the region, a top office of a Singapore bakery… Read More>>
Just one month after closing on $2.2 billion in fresh cash, Gaw Capital Partners is bidding to put some of that funding to work in a new asset class, according to an announcement late last week by Australia’s largest self-storage… Read More>>
Kailong Real Estate is preparing to start work on its latest Hong Kong project after purchasing a pair of ageing buildings in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon, according to the firm’s top executive in the city.
A joint… Read More>>
Five years after purchasing the site of what was planned to be San Francisco’s second-tallest office tower, China Oceanwide Holdings has agreed to sell the unfinished project at a $276 million loss, according to a statement filed by the developer… Read More>>
