Asia Pacific real estate investment news and information
The founder of one of Asia’s largest property empires passed away last week leaving behind a $15 billion fortune gathered over nearly 50 years in the region’s real estate industry.
Cheng Yu-tung, who founded New World Development in 1970, and… Read More>>
WeWork is known for providing a workspace for startups, freelancers and other smaller entities so the company’s GM for Hong Kong, Australia and Korea Henek Lo might have been a little surprised when banking giant HSBC called up to rent… Read More>>
It may have seemed like an attack by the undead, but a crazed mob that tore the doors off a Hangzhou real estate office last weekend came in search of apartments, not human flesh.
When homes went on sale at… Read More>>
Sunac China has agreed to buy substantial stakes in 42 real estate projects from investment firm Legend Holdings for RMB 13.7 billion ($2.1 billion) as the developer controlled by tycoon Sun Hongbin takes another swing at joining the big leagues… Read More>>
Pronouncements of Li Ka-shing’s retreat from Greater China real estate markets may have missed the mark after Hong Kong’s richest man beat out Sun Hung Kai, China Vanke and 14 other bidders to win its first Hong Kong land auction… Read More>>
ARA Asset Management is said to have won its bid to purchase a 50 percent stake in Singapore’s Capital Square from Alpha Investment Partners, according to an account in Bloomberg.
No transaction price was disclosed for the 16-story building at… Read More>>
Sam Zell thinks Asia needs more warehouses, and the Chicago-based real estate magnate has just closed on his first Asian-focused fund, with the objective of profiting from development and operation of new logistics facilities in Japan.
Zell’s Equity International, which… Read More>>
China’s most highly leveraged developer has a new custodian for its growing stack of financial obligations, as Evergrande Real Estate moved out its former CFO in favor of understudy Pan Darong.
Pan took on the role of chief financial officer… Read More>>
More bad news for China’s struggling brick and mortar retailers as a recent report from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences Academic Press predicted as many as one-third of all shopping centers in China will close their doors… Read More>>
Anbang Insurance, the Chinese company that burst on stage in late 2014 with its $1.95 billion acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria, is headed for a Hong Kong stock market listing as early as the middle of next year. While the… Read More>>
