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The real estate arm of Canada’s second largest pension fund has partnered with the Blackstone Group to acquire a Sydney office tower for A$240 million.  

Inbound investment into real estate in Asia will record higher growth volumes as compared to outbound investments in 2015.  

Marc Weiss, partner at Partners Group said on the sidelines of the PERE Asia Summit held in Hong Kong last week that the distressed situation and looming uncertainty in China are going to be big drivers of secondary real estate transactions increasing in China.  

CBRE’s annual investor intentions survey has revealed that fewer investors are willing to make acquisitions in Asia Pacific this year as compared to 2014.  

CBRE’s annual investor intentions survey has revealed that lesser number of investors are willing to make acquisitions in Asia-Pacific this year as compared to 2014. 

The head of one of the largest Canadian pension plans said that high valuations have made it more difficult to make property investments in the short term.  

Institutional investors are now investing in the global secondaries real estate market, with China being a potential market in Asia, heard delegates at the PERE Asia Summit.

The Hong Kong government has announced plans of setting up a state investment fund from its fiscal reserves within this year.  

The Korean institutional investor is reportedly in the process of hiring foreign nationals for its global investment teams in New York, London, and its soon to be opened office in Singapore.  

At PERE’s India roundtable published this week, Nitin Gupta, a managing director at Sydney-based advisor Macquarie Capital, said there were between eight and 10 institutional investors seeking local partners for investments in the country currently.