Korea Investment buys US office buildings of eBay and GSK for $260 mn

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has bought a Silicon Valley campus of eBay Inc. for 140 billion won ($130 million), shortly after closing t...

KB Securities acquires $140 mn Facebook-leased Dublin building

KB Securities Co. Ltd., a unit of a top South Korean banking group, has bought a building used as Facebook Inc.'s second Dublin office for around 150 ...

Mirae Asset to acquire Blackstone’s London office building for $460 mn

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to acquire a prime office building in the City of London from the Blackstone Group for £340 million ($461 million...

M&G Real Estate to buy $1 bn Seoul building as KKR backs down

M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. will sign an agreement soon to buy new twin office towers in Seoul for around 1.1 trillion won ($1...

Mirae Asset, NH Investment seek to resell $94 mn stake in London building

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., which closed the £242 million ($340 million) joint acquisition of an London o...

Korean building materials firm seals 4th US hotel purchase for $87 mn

South Korea’s construction materials company, Aju Group, closed a $87 million acquisition of a hotel near Seattle from Marriott International Inc. las...

Construction workers’ fund, insurer in $123 mn deal to buy Denver building

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and a South Korean insurance firm have invested 60 billion won ($56 million) in a 132 billion w...

Korea Investment buys 99-yr leasehold of Brussels buildings for $454 mn

Korea Investment Management Co. has obtained a 99-year leasehold for €370 million ($454 million) of two buildings in Brussels used as the headquarte...

Mirae Asset’s unit buys Morgan Stanley’s new Scotland head office building

Multi Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd., wholly owned by South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd., has acquired Morgan Stanley’s new head...

Anbang Life-backed fund buys Seoul building for $225 mn

A fund led by a South Korean unit of China’s Anbang Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has bought a prime office building in Seoul for 240 billion won ($22...

Korean REIT buys Vienna office building for $71 mn

JR AMC Co. Ltd., a South Korean real estate investment trust (REIT), has acquired an office building used as the headquarters of Porr AG, a European c...

Shinhan GIB underwrites $190 mn mezzanine debt on Manhattan building

Shinhan Financial Group’s newly-launched investment banking division has underwritten $190 million of 10-year mezzanine debt on One Worldwide Plaza, a...

GIC, M&G Real Estate in $400 mn bid for POBA-owned Korean building

Singapore’s GIC and M&G Real Estate of London-based Prudential Plc. are in the bidding for a new office building in South Korea, wholly owned by t...

Brokerage firm Shinhan sources and lends $175 mn loan on Chicago building

Shinhan Investment Corp. has extended a $175 million loan on a prime office tower in Chicago, a rare case in which a South Korean brokerage house sour...

IFM Investors opens Seoul office; upbeat on renewable energy

Australia’s IFM Investors opened its eighth global office in Seoul on Nov. 30, at a time when key South Korean asset owners stressed the importance of...

Korea Investment to buy US government-leased building for $185 mn

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. will acquire a mid-sized office building in Washington D.C. for around 200 billion won ($185 million) next ...

Ascendas-Singbridge buys mid-sized building in Seoul for $92 mn

Singapore’s Ascendas-Singbridge Group closed the acquisition of a newly-built office building in Seoul for S$124.3 million ($92.3 million) this week, ...

KKR, POBA plan to sell commercial buildings in Korea for $1 bn

Private equity firm KKR & Co. and the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) have put two commercial buildings in South Korea up for sale sep...

PAG buys Seoul office building from POBA-led fund for $270 mn

Asia-based investment firm Pacific Alliance Group (PAG) has bought an office building in southern Seoul from a fund led by the Public Officials Bene...

Macquarie may resell Endeavour Energy stake to Korean investors for $176 mn

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is reselling part of stakes in Endeavour Energy, one of Australia’s biggest public energy compan...

Korea Post buys $600 mn US building jointly with California pension fund

Korea Post has signed a 680 billion won ($602 million) agreement to buy a Silicon Valley office campus used by a leading cybersecurity company in join...

Korean hedge fund house co-invests in $40 mn Florida building purchase

South Korea’s small hedge fund company Anda Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested $8 million in a $40 million joint acquisition of a four-story offic...

Korean savings fund and insurer to buy college building in Sydney at $56 mn

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMAA) will acquire a language center building of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydne...

Angelo, Gordon seeks to redevelop Korean bank building as luxury hotel

A consortium led by US investment firm Angelo, Gordon & Co. has been selected as a preferred buyer of a local bank’s building in Seoul, for which ...

Meritz Real Estate arranges $226 mn mezzanine debt for NY building

Meritz Real Estate Asset Management Co. Ltd. has arranged South Korean asset owners’ investment of around 260 billion won ($226 million) in 10-year me...

Samsung Group units in forming $443 mn fund to buy OECD building in Paris

An investment firm of South Korea’s Samsung Life Insurance Co. Ltd is forming a blind-pool real estate fund worth around 500 billion won ($443 milli...

NPS confirms co-investment in Prague office building via LaSalle fund

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) confirmed a co-investment in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, through a real estate fund of ...

Korean firms invest $52.5 mn in debt refinancing of US building

Two South Korean financial institutions have invested $52.5 million in mezzanine debt backed by an office building in Manhattan, which was issued to r...

Two Korean investors buy Canberra building for $54 mn

Two South Korean institutional investors have recently completed a 60 billion won ($54 million) acquisition of an office building in Canberra which th...

NH Investment to acquire $100 mn debt of landmark Boston building

(Updated: Some financing details and background were removed at the request of the sources.) NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. will underwrite ...