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Joy City Mall: Big Data Analytics Drives Commercial Success

  • Jan 17, 2020
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China’s bricks-and-mortar shopping malls have come under significant pressure in recent years. Despite strong economic growth and rising consumer demand, China faces severe overcapacity of its physical retail space. This[…]

Tahoe Group: Bridging Culture and Real Estate Development

  • Nov 27, 2019
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China’s real estate sector remains a significant source of economic activity, despite an economic slowdown and tightened credit conditions. Government policies have fueled this growth for decades, with residential real[…]

Country Garden’s People-centered Growth Strategy

  • Sep 30, 2019
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In 2017, China’s investment in real estate development reached 11 trillion yuan (US $1.7 trillion), a 7% increase year-on-year. A significant chunk of this capital went into Tier 2 and[…]

Beating the Giants: Zhongliang’s Strategy for Growth

  • Aug 20, 2019
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Stories of success in China’s real estate market invariably come from the country’s largest firms. But not always. The stunning rise of China’s Zhongliang Group Limited is one such exception.[…]

Succeeding Against All Odds: Vanke’s Songhua Lake Ski Resort

  • Jul 29, 2019
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In late 2014, Vanke, one of China’s largest real estate companies, embarked on a new chapter in its corporate history with the launch of a 40 billion yuan (US $6[…]

Greentown Service Group: Gaining Ground in ‘Smart’ Services

  • Jun 11, 2019
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China’s real estate sector has seen exponential growth in the past few decades, serving as a pillar of strength for the world’s second-largest economy. However, as population growth slows and[…]

Wanda: Strategic Transition to an Asset-light Model

  • May 29, 2019
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The Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group is one of the world’s largest commercial property companies, with operations in real estate management, financial services, and the tourism and cultural businesses. The[…]

China Evergrande Group: Strategic Repositioning Toward a Sustainable Growth Model

Over the last 15 years, China Evergrande Group has embarked on an astonishing growth path that saw its four-person team become one of the largest and most well-known real estate[…]

Poly Developments: REIT Securitization in China’s Rental Housing Market

As China’s residential real estate prices continue to rise, home ownership has become increasingly out of reach for many people. Yet rental housing is not a reliable option for most[…]

Cruising Ahead: China Merchants Group’s Shekou Prince Bay Project

  • Feb 18, 2019
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As China’s economy continues to slow, it is turning to infrastructure spending once again to boost growth. Port development is part of this effort since active ports are expected to[…]

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