It’s bring your billions to the table week in Asia as an investment consortium led by Zhang Lei’s Hillhouse Capital assembles capital intensive dream team to buy China’s collection of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell stores, at the same… Read More>>
Evergrande Said to Bet $300M on Jia Yueting’s Faraday Future
Chinese property tycoon Sun Hongbin said he had never regretted anything until he blew $2 billion backing Jia Yueting’s troubled conglomerate LeEco. But the teary-eyed confession by the chairman of Sunac Holdings doesn’t seem to have given rival property baron… Read More>>
Evergrande Goes High Tech With $16B Plan for AI, Robotics and Life Science Deals
After failed attempts to sell Evergrande-branded cooking oil and bottled water, Chinese property tycoon Xu Jiayin has fixed on AI and quantum physics as the newest business opportunities for the country’s second-ranked home builder by contracted sales.
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Fifth SG Project Goes for Collective Sale This Week and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Singapore leads the news again today as the city’s fifth housing project this week goes up for collective sale. Slightly further south in Melbourne, a Chinese developer continues to buy up suburban sites and Sunac’s Sun Hongbin reaches a bit… Read More>>
Evergrande Raises $9.05B in Run-Up to Mainland Listing
China’s famously indebted developer now appears to be among the most sought after by investors, after China Evergrande Group attracted RMB 60 billion ($9.05 billion) in investment in the run-up to its long-awaited mainland listing.
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Country Garden’s Yang Huiyan Helps Boot Wang Jianlin From Top of China Rich List
Country Garden’s Yang Huiyan has vaulted onto the top 10 list of China’s richest individuals, while Wanda boss Wang Jianlin was dethroned by Evergrande’s Xu Jiayin for the number one spot, according to the latest annual ranking published by the… Read More>>
SG Tycoon Investing $5B to Build Data Centre Empire and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Leading today’s news, one of Singapore’s richest men is going big on data, or at least on the buildings that house it, while Australia picks up 4.6 billion baht by selling its Bangkok embassy site to a local developer. Also… Read More>>
Evergrande Asset Swap Opens Back Door to Mainland Listing
China Evergrande Real Estate appears to have grabbed an opportunity to enter the lucrative mainland share market through a backdoor listing on the Shenzhen stock exchange, following a series of announcements to the Hong Kong stock exchange this week.
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Evergrande Dumps Money-Losing Consumer Businesses to Refocus on Real Estate
With debt obligations sitting at RMB 381.3 billion ($57 billion) as of the end of June, Evergrande Group has dumped its money-losing agribusiness, dairy and spring water divisions as Xu Jiayin’s dreams of branching out from real estate into consumer… Read More>>
Evergrande Profits Drop 23% as Debts Climb to $57B
Evergrande Real Estate’s core net profits fell by 23 percent in the first half of 2016 as an increase in revenue was unable to offset a range of higher costs. Total borrowings for China’s most highly levered developer jumped to… Read More>>