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With a rapidly ageing population, China is facing a dramatic demographic shift that is attracting overseas hospital operators and developers to the senior living industry. But despite attractive raw s... Read More »
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments has purchased a 31-story office tower in Chicago, marking its first investment in Chicago. The fund paid $218 million for the tower at 225 W. Wacker, which... Read More »
What does Tokyo have in common with the Miami and Dubai property markets? A tidal wave of foreign property investment is flooding the market due to currency exchange rate fluctuations. Read More »
Singapore-listed developer GuocoLand has revealed details for the 290-meter Tanjong Pagar Centre, which will be the tallest building in Singapore. The project is positioned as Singapore's next major b... Read More »
Leasing activity was mostly flat in Asia Pacific's top office markets during the first quarter of 2013, according to Jones Lang LaSalle's latest Asia Pacific Office Index. Combined rental growth in th... Read More »
Greenland Holding Group has announced plans to purchase a 60 percent stake in luxury property developer SPG Land Holdings, a move which may herald a new wave of consolidation among China property deve... Read More »
Direct investment in global real estate hit the highest level since 2008 in the first quarter, led by a surge in investment in Asia Pacific commercial property. More than $27 billion was directly inve... Read More »
Driven by potentially high returns, U.S. investors are increasingly targeting funds that invest in foreign commercial and residential property. During the first quarter of 2013, investors put $2.6 bil... Read More »
The return of Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his monetary policy known as "Abenomics" is jump starting the country's sluggish property sector, many analysts believe. After years of austerity, Mr.... Read More »
China's investment in overseas commercial property is growing at an unprecedented rate. In 2012, Chinese capital directed at overseas commercial investment totaled $4 billion, a 33 percent increase fr... Read More »
The number of shopping center in development around the world is up 15 percent from a year ago, with more than half of the projects in China, according to new data released by CB Richard Ellis. Read More »
Blackstone Group aims to raise the largest real estate fund devoted to China and Asian markets, despite reports of a looming slowdown in the market. Blackstone plans to raise $4 billion devoted exclus... Read More »
Japanese REITs focusing on apartments performed better than other property sector over the last five years, new data shows. Apartment REITs in Japan produced a risk-adjusted 3.2 percent in the five-ye... Read More »
Malaysian investors are increasingly focusing on London office space. Since the beginning of 2010, Malaysian funds have invested $3.7 billion into London office buildings, according to data from Jon... Read More »
News reports showing vast empty shopping malls in China don't tell the whole story, according to a new report. China's "consumer class" cities are growing at such at rapid rate, the new supply of shop... Read More »
Direct investment in global commercial real estate jumped 8 percent in the first quarter, led by a surge in activity in Japan and Germany, according to new data from Jones Lang LaSalle. Volume in the ... Read More »
With China's rampant economic expansion stalling, institutional investors are shifting their attention to the country with Asia's second-fastest growing economy, Indonesia. Several sovereign wealth fu... Read More »
With land prices stabilizing, Japan's troubled property market is gaining investor interest as the market improves. Land prices fell by 1.8 percent in 2012, the smallest decline since 2008, according ... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield expects global property investments to exceed $1 trillion in 2013, hitting levels not seen since 2007. Overall investment volumes could increase by 14 percent in 2013, carrying ove... Read More »
According to global real estate consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), India's property markets closed 2012 with a few notes of positivity as the inflation was below the Reserve Bank of India's (RB... Read More »
