Commercial Property
Property investments in Guangzhou and Shenzhen rose to $61.91b in 2018
Property investments in Guangzhou and Shenzhen rose to $61.91b in 2018
Guangzhou accounted for 60% of transactions of over $113.39m.
Chart of the Day: 1.5 million sqft of retail property supply to come online by 2022
Over half of the upcoming retail development will be completed in 2019.
Retail property sales fell 2.3% in Q1: study
The sales decline in optical goods & books and food retailers dragged it down.
Chart of the Day: Office rents rose 1.5% in Q1
Rents in Beach Road/Middle Road saw the highest increase at 3.1%.
Chart of the Day: Industrial property supply to crash in 2022
The decline will be partially countered by the launch of data centres in the coming years.
Grade A office rents up 3.2% in Q1 as supply tapered off
Occupancy has recovered to a healthy 95.2%.
European office supplies provider Lyreco buys DeskRight
It looks to relaunch its strategy for Asia.
High-priced industrial property transactions crashed 57% to $424.3m in Q1
The largest transaction was the $227.5m sale-and-leaseback deal with LTH Logistics.
Blackstone buys GLP's US logistics assets for record US$18.7b
Its real estate arm will get 115 million sqft for US$13.4b.
Funan to open doors on 28 June
It will open two months ahead of schedule with a 92% commitment for its retail leasing.
Keppel Data Centres invests $21.5m in Series C round of Luxembourg data centre developer
Etix has a network of data centres across Europe, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Chart of the Day: New office supply pipeline to hit 7.6 million sqft by 2023
Office rents are expected to rise 8-10% amidst low vacancy levels of 3%.
URA tenders residential-with-commercial Bernam Street site
It can yield up to 325 potential units.
Mapletree Investments' profits up 10.3% to $2.16b in 2018
Its acquisitions in Australia, the US and Europe bolstered earnings.
Chart of the Day: Check out how food factory rents can cost
Factories with freezer and refrigerated facilities can fetch 25-35% higher price than the average.
Dairy Farm could rely on health and beauty segment to drive earnings
Its food division is floundering whilst its supermarkets suffer from poor locations and lack of improvement programmes.
Tokyo remained as most liquid property investment market in Q1
Acquisitions by J-REITs during the quarter were 30% higher than the quarterly average since 2014.
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