Real estate
RREEF loses Fogle in Asia
Mark Fogle, managing director and chief investment officer for real estate at RREEF Asia Pacific, the alternative investment group of Deutsche Bank AG's asset management division, is leaving the firm after three years of service.
VC-backed PRC hotel chain rises on NASDAQ debut
China Lodging Group Ltd, an economy hotel chain operator in China, has debuted on NASDAQ with a 27% rise on its first day's trading.
Real estate: China boom or bubble?
Where there is growth, investors will follow
DTZ hires ex-Citi Asia property head
DTZ Holdings, a UK real estate consultancy, has hired David Schaefer, the former Asia-Pacific head for Citi Property Investors, a Citigroup investment arm, to spearhead its investment management business in Asia.
China nixes SOE real estate investment
PRC authorities have ordered SOEs to halt investments in China's real estate sector, in an effort to cool land prices and redirect stimulus capital.
Chuo Mitsui plans $1.6 billion real estate business
Japan's Chuo Mitsui Trust & Banking Co. reportedly is planning to launch a real estate fund platform, targeting office and residential assets in Tokyo.
Pacific Alliance appoints new MD for realty unit
Pacific Alliance Group, the Asian alternative asset investment manager, has appointed Wei Song, who previously worked with Equity International, a privately-held real estate investment company in the US, as MD of Pacific Alliance Real Estate.
Unison Capital to acquire MK for real estate
Control stake in restructuring/asset business
Morgan Stanley may hand over ANA hotels
Morgan Stanley may have to give up its $2.4 billion portfolio asset of Japan's ANA Hotel chain to creditors, if as expected, the firm fails to repay debts due in April this year.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate set to sell China asset
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Asia (MSREA) is said to be in final talks to sell a Shanghai apartment complex to Alpha Investment Partners, a unit of Singapore-based developer Keppel Land, in a deal estimated at around $130 million.
Apollo gets hold of Holdfast
Kelley’s team plus c.$1 billion Asia fund
BoA will retain Merrill Asia property funds
Bank of America is no longer selling Merrill Lynch's $2.65 billion Asian property fund business, which the US bank had originally planned to divest among other non-core businesses following its acquisition of Merrill at end 2008 during the financial crisis.
GIC could lose $720 million
An announcement that New York-based property developer Tishman Speyer Properties and a unit of BlackRock will not be making a full scheduled debt payment on Manhattan Eastside properties Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village could cost the Government...
NPS goes shopping in Sydney
South Korea’s National Pension Service has completed its bid for Aurora Place a 44-story office building known as one of the landmarks in Sydney’s central business district, for KRW750 billion ($660 million).
Goldman sees China NYSE realty IPO
Goldman Sachs investee Century 21 China Real Estate, a franchised division of US real estate group Century 21, is planning to go IPO on the NYSE, aiming to raise $150 million by the end of January.
MGPA buys Clerical Medical portfolio
Macquarie-backed private equity real estate investment advisory firm MGPA has paid £52.5 ($85 million) to buy Lands Improvement Holdings plc (LIH) in the UK, from Clerical Medial Investment Group, part of the Lloyds Banking Group.
DE Shaw exits DLF Assets
DE Shaw has reportedly sold its 36% stake in Indian property trust DLF Assets, netting some $500 million.
HSBC PE gets Executive Centre
HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Ltd. has acquired a majority stake in The Executive Centre, a manager of premium rental office spaces in Asia, from Marathon Asset Management, a New York-based alternative investment and asset management company with over $11...
Prudential Vietnam hires head of property fund
Former Executive Director of premier property developer Guocoland Malaysia Bhd, Seth Lim, has joined Prudential Vietnam Fund Management Company as Director, responsible for managing the PRUPIM Vietnam Property Fund.
Carlyle, Temasek see flat Kaisa IPO
The Carlyle Group and Temasek Holdings saw their investee Shenzhen property developer Kaisa Group Holdings begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board, in an IPO postponed since early 2008.