Asia real estate and outbound investment news
Japan’s Mitsubishi Estate has teamed up with a local investment firm to acquire a Sydney commercial tower equally owned by Blackstone and Mirvac for about A$777 million ($494 million), making Australia’s largest office buy so far this year.
Mirvac has… Read More>>
Singapore property heavyweight Keppel Corp has purchased a pair of school campuses in Sydney on behalf of its private education fund for a total of A$198 million ($125 million), the company announced late Thursday.
The company said its Keppel Education… Read More>>
City Developments Ltd (CDL) has acquired a portfolio of 25 Tokyo apartment buildings from North American fund manager BentallGreenOak for JPY 35 billion ($230 million), marking the largest purchase to date by the Singapore property heavyweight in Asia’s most mature… Read More>>
Canadian pension fund manager Alberta Investment Management Corp (AIMCo) has hired former GIC veteran Kevin Bong to oversee its investment strategy globally while leading its recently established Singapore operations.
AIMCo, which invests globally on behalf of pension, endowment and government… Read More>>
Acquisitions of North American real estate by Asia Pacific-based investors jumped more than 400 percent year-on-year to a record $13.9 billion in the first quarter of 2023, according to Knight Frank.
The surge in property purchases was driven largely by… Read More>>
Singapore’s GIC and US private equity firm Centerbridge Partners have agreed to take NASDAQ-listed INDUS Realty Trust private in a sweetened deal that values the American industrial REIT at $868 million.
Indus has entered into a definitive merger agreement under… Read More>>
Singapore-based Centurion Properties is proposing to build a 732-unit student housing complex in Sydney, Australia for A$132.17 million ($91.5 million) to serve the growing demand for high quality facilities generated by a wave of returning overseas students.
A unit of… Read More>>
China Oceanwide Holdings has failed to sell its halted $1.6 billion San Francisco mega-project for the third time, in another blow to the cash-strapped developer after the troubled site was seized by creditors last year.
In a filing to the… Read More>>
Asia Pacific-based capital has led inbound office investment in central London this year as overseas buyers take advantage of a weakening pound, according to an analysis by BNP Paribas Real Estate.
Based on third-quarter data, APAC-based investment stood at £4.8… Read More>>
Singapore-listed Digital Core REIT has entered into a deal with its sponsor, US server-hosting giant Digital Realty, to acquire a stake in a German data centre and a potential interest in a Texas facility, subject to market conditions.
Under the… Read More>>
