Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Evergrande Group, one of China’s biggest real estate developers, launched three new agribusiness subsidiaries on Monday, as the slowdown in the country’s housing market sends property firms searching for new profit centres.
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While China’s real estate downturn has yet to create the kind of distress seen in the US in 2008, it still is taking a toll on the fortunes of the country’s commercial kings and queens, according to Fortune magazine.
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A recent US$877 million share buy-back by real estate developer Guangzhou Evergrande has market observers puzzled regarding the Hong Kong-listed firm’s financial strategy.
The shares were purchased by the developer over a two week period this month, and amount to 6.33 percent of the company’s total stock. This move follows soon after an unexpected RMB 2.3 billion (US$378 million) special dividend that the company paid to shareholders in November.
Not content with being China’s second largest real estate developer or winning the AFC Champions League soccer crown, Guanzhou-based Evergrande Group announced orders worth RMB 5.7 billion ($940 million) for its new bottled water brand, Evergrande Spring over the weekend.
At a ceremony in the city of Qingyuan in Guangdong, the company’s chairman, Xu Jiayin announced plans to…
