Asia real estate and outbound investment news
China’s real estate developers borrowed 49 percent less cash from the nation’s trusts during the first quarter of 2014, reversing a surge of informal credit to the industry as default concerns rise.
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Diversified Chinese investment conglomerate Fosun International announced last week that it is organising a share sale to raise up to $668 million to help pursue its goal of becoming the Berkshire Hathaway of Asia.
According to a story in the… Read More>>
A conference bringing together real estate investment professionals from across Greater China is being held in Shanghai this week to discuss trends in China’s real estate investment market, including opportunities in the senior living market, how to structure investment funds… Read More>>
Eastern China’s Zhejiang province could be in for more trouble as the SWAT team was called in to calm protests that erupted in the city of Taizhou after property developers began discounting home prices by 30 percent late last month.
Blackstone Group LP last week let its team know that Michael Chae, the chief of Asia private equity for the alternative investment giant, would be returning to New York to resume his former job as head of media and communications… Read More>>
When it opened last year, Terminal Three at Shenzhen’s Bao’An International Airport was hailed as a milestone in China’s improving design universe, with a ground-breaking honeycomb skin that filled the structure with natural light.
Unfortunately, while the design may have… Read More>>
If the performance of Vanke (000002.SZ) represents a best-case scenario for the nation’s housing market, then the industry has fallen by at least five percent in the last year, according to financial data released last week by China’s largest real… Read More>>
The mall developer controlled by the Philippines’ richest man has announced that it is raising $740 million in debt financing to expand its retail projects in China and its home country, as the company appears to be backing away from… Read More>>
China’s central government made a pair of moves last week to gain tighter control over the nation’s unruly real estate market, setting a four year horizon for centralising registration of property deals, while also expanding the range of its regular… Read More>>
Hong Kong private equity shop Gaw Capital and Dutch design firm MVRDV have started transforming a Kowloon warehouse into an 18,000 square metre set of luxury loft offices in a developing business area of Hong Kong.
MVRDV’s conversion of the… Read More>>
