Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Following months of rumours about his fate, Anbang Insurance chairman and CEO Wu Xiaohui has been detained by Chinese authorities, according to reports in mainland state-owned media.
The controversial insurance executive was taken away by “relevant departments” on Friday, according… Read More>>
Anbang Group has forged another deal with Blackstone, buying an Amsterdam hotel from the US private equity giant for €350 million ($391.6 million), Dutch real estate news site PropertyNL has reported. The deal marks Anbang’s latest acquisition from Stephen Schwarzman’s… Read More>>
Anbang Insurance this weekend lashed out at media accounts of legal and financial crises at the high profile Chinese investor, threatening lawsuits while denying accounts of cashflow struggles and chairman Wu Xiaohui’s detention by authorities.
Anbang, which leapt onto the… Read More>>
Donald Trump is threatening China with a trade war, but could he be persuaded to hold fire if one of China’s best-connected investors finances his son-in-law’s multi-billion dollar Manhattan real estate project?
Jared Kushner, the head of Manhattan developer Kushner… Read More>>
China’s Anbang Insurance has apparently rekindled its passion for hotels with the mainland financial upstart reportedly preparing a $7 billion bid for the FTSE-listed Intercontinental Hotels Group.
Anbang, which became famous for its $1.95 billion acquisition of New York’s Waldorf… Read More>>
Beijing-based Anbang Insurance, which failed in a $14 billion bid to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts this year, continued to draw attention in China’s financial world this month after new figures showed that the company controlled by entrepreneur Wu Xiaohui… Read More>>
China’s Anbang Insurance lost the $13.6 billion battle for Starwood Hotels and Resorts in April, but the prolonged campaign to acquire the global hotel group may have helped drive a sales surge that has transformed the 12-year-old privately held group… Read More>>
Anbang may be planning to convert 1000 of the 1400 hotel rooms in the legendary New York site into luxury condos after closing on their landmark acquisition over a year ago.
According to sources cited in Crain’s New York, Anbang’s… Read More>>
The mainland’s publicly listed developers have taken on more debt than ever in the last year, but over the in the US, major mainland investments are expected in the hotel sector. Plus Anbang’s Wu Xiaohui decides to skip an event… Read More>>
After withdrawing its $14 billion bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts on April Fools’ Day, China’s Anbang Insurance Group has apparently moved on to acquire a hotel group in Canada, as what appears to be an affiliate of the mainland… Read More>>
