Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
Less than one year ago, Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group paid $4.4 billion to privatise its Hong Kong-listed developer, Wanda Commercial Properties, in the biggest share buy-back ever on the city’s stock exchange.
While the billionaire property developer still hopes to… Read More>>
Faced with skyrocketing housing prices in 2016, during the first half of this year, China implemented a fresh round of measures aimed at suppressing demand for housing, including a clampdown on financing for the real estate sector, and direct controls… Read More>>
China’s sovereign wealth fund and its largest insurer are backing a consortium of investors to buy the biggest parking operator in North America in a deal estimated to top $1 billion, the companies revealed last week.
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The Hong Kong buying binge by mainland developers continues unabated as China Resources Land (CR Land) beat out the Gaw family to pick up a residential site in the city’s Central district for HK$1.1 billion ($140.9 million), it was reported… Read More>>
China’s banking regulator may have ordered a review of Dalian Wanda’s borrowing practices, and the mainland has instituted controls on cash outflows since late last year, but that hasn’t stopped China’s richest man from agreeing to spend £470 million ($595… Read More>>
SOHO China is selling a mixed-use project in Shanghai to a joint venture led by Singapore’s Keppel Land China and Alpha Investment Partners for around RMB 3.6 billion ($525 million), the buyers announced today. The subsidiaries of Singapore’s Keppel Group… Read More>>
Property consultants in the Hong Kong market enjoyed another encouraging month in April as brokers both local and global signed some record deals. In one of the biggest investment transactions brokered during the month, a local brokerage helped ink a… Read More>>
China Oceanwide, which is building the second-tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, has recently added to its landmark project by scooping up an adjacent retail property for $32.5 million. As reported in The Registry, the Beijing-based developer plans to renovate the… Read More>>
Fewer Chinese cities saw housing price gains in May compared to the previous month as official measures to smooth out a bubbly residential market have begun to take effect. According to figures released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)… Read More>>
Hundreds of chanting protesters took to the streets to voice their displeasure with new housing regulations in Shanghai on Saturday night, with video surfacing on social media of a large crowd marching in a busy downtown shopping district and ultimately… Read More>>
