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REAL ESTATE

The Pacific Century Place Marunouchi building in Tokyo. GIC is offering all of its office space in the building from the 8th floor to the 31st floor.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 29, 2026
GIC’s Tokyo property said to draw $1.4 billion bid by Kenedix
Kenedix submitted a bid of around ¥230 billion ($1.4 billion) for office floors owned by GIC in Pacific Century Place Marunouchi, sources said.
Meta's new under-construction data center in Middleton Township, Ohio, as seen from a drone on May 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Jun 17, 2026
Fast-tracked power plants fuel AI boom, with little public scrutiny
Residents get little notice about the plants that affecting their air quality and the climate.
A decaying Dutch-era colonial house in Teuku Umar Street in Menteng, Jakarta on May 28
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2026
Rotting $16 million mansion exposes Indonesia’s tangled legal system
The Jakarta property is just one of many that lie derelict amid protracted wrangles over ownership which are complicated by poor records keeping and overlapping legal systems.
Daiwa Real Estate Asset Management is raising rents for office space and apartments to offset higher interest rates.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2026
Daiwa Real estate unit aims to raise rents to fight higher rates
The company has also started expanding its team of rent negotiators to help improve the terms of lease agreements for properties in Daiwa’s real estate portfolio.
More than 15 firms submitted bids for Sankei Building last month, with several offers exceeding ¥1 trillion.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2026
Fuji Media’s real estate unit attracts ¥1 trillion bids
More than 15 firms submitted bids for Sankei Building last month, with several offers exceeding ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion).
Takanawa Gateway City is the centerpiece of East Japan Railway’s broader effort to redevelop what it calls the Greater Shinagawa Area into a major international business and transportation hub.
JAPAN / Greater Shinagawa Area
Jun 2, 2026
The rise of the managed city
Tokyo’s newest megadevelopments aim to redesign urban life for an aging, increasingly diverse society
Visitors walk through the Oimachi Tracks development, one of several major projects tied to East Japan Railway’s efforts to transform southern Tokyo station districts into hubs for shopping, tourism and daily life.
BUSINESS / Companies / Greater Shinagawa Area
Jun 2, 2026
JR East’s next stop? City building.
Faced with shrinking demand, the operator expands beyond transportation into land, commerce and large-scale redevelopment.
Mori Building's Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Tokyo. The firm and SL Green Realty are building an office tower near the Grand Central Terminal in New York.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 28, 2026
SL Green partners with Japan’s Mori to build NYC office tower
The new 46-story building will be close to One Vanderbilt, SL Green’s prized skyscraper that has commanded some of the highest office rents in New York.
Docomo’s land sales come as the NTT subsidiary struggles to boost profits in its core consumer communications business that includes mobile phones.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 25, 2026
NTT Docomo sells Tokyo land plots for ¥59 billion, joining boom
Foreign and domestic investors have been flocking to Japan’s real estate market to buy properties that have risen in price but are still seen as having scope to gain.
Japan's banks have been stepping up lending to the real estate sector, but there are concerns over overheating in the real estate market and lax loan screenings.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 18, 2026
Bank lending to real estate hits record high in Japan
According to the Bank of Japan, new lending to the sector in 2025 climbed 15.1% from the previous year to ¥17.8 trillion.
James Buchanan, managing director, South Asia, Walton Global, says there has been “a huge demand for alternative real estate investments.”
BUSINESS / Markets
May 13, 2026
Walton offers Japanese investors a hedge with exposure to U.S. land assets
Its 360-square-kilometer property portfolio might provide stability regardless of what the public markets do.
Residential buildings in New Delhi. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is seeking to deepen its presence in India’s real estate market, which has attracted global investors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 29, 2026
MUFG to foray into real estate and expand forex derivatives in India
Japan’s biggest bank is seeking to deepen its presence in the world’s fastest-growing major economy.
Pasona Square in Tokyo’s Minato Ward
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2026
BGO sells Tokyo office building for $628 million to condo seller
The Tokyo-based developer Goldcrest spent about ¥100 billion to acquire Pasona Square in the capital’s fashion boutique-filled neighborhood of Aoyama.
Sembcorp employees stand on a patch of disused land earmarked as a future site for a data center on the Wilton International site near Middlesbrough, England, on March 27. The utilities company has been serving petrochemical customers for decades but the decline of the industry has now left it with spare land — and power.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2026
Data-center builders eyeing AI gold rush waiting years for U.K. grid connections
High demand has pushed out wait times to between 12 and 15 years, driving up prices for land with power generation or an existing high-power grid connection.
Paul Nikel, President of West Canada Homes, with an increasingly rare supply of plastic foam
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Apr 26, 2026
Japanese developers worry over construction supply shortages amid Iran war
The war in the Middle East and the subsequent halt of oil shipments from the Strait of Hormuz threaten to push back projects across Japan.
Residential buildings in the Kachidoki area of Tokyo. Used condominium prices in central Tokyo fell for a second month in March, raising concerns that Japan’s property boom may be losing momentum.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 23, 2026
Tokyo condo prices fall two months in row in sign boom may fade
Average prices of previously occupied apartments in the six central wards of Tokyo fell 0.2% in March from the previous month to ¥187.3 million.
Waterfront residential buildings in Tokyo. New condominium prices in the capital hit a record high in the year that ended in March.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 21, 2026
Tokyo condo prices hit record high in fiscal 2025
Condo prices may climb even further as tensions in the Middle East are making it difficult to procure oil-derived products.
The morning commute in Mumbai, with the Altimus tower in the background.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 17, 2026
Mumbai’s skyline is soaring. So is the pressure on housing.
These days, prices for some apartments are on par with parts of New York, and developers are putting in amenities to make analysts and traders feel at home.
Naoki Suzuki, KJRM Holdings’ president, says the KKR unit’s real estate holdings jumped 20% to about ¥2.53 trillion in 2025, among the biggest in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 13, 2026
KKR unit to boost buying in ¥450 trillion Japan property market
Japanese companies are facing pressure from policymakers and investors to divest non-core assets including real estate, and KJRM Holdings says it sees profit potential there.
The rise in used condo prices in central Tokyo is stalling as investor demand for real estate slows.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 24, 2026
Used Tokyo condo price gains stalling as policies drag on demand
Average contract prices for used condos in bay-side neighborhoods such as Toyosu and Kachidoki decreased 0.6% in January from December, marking the first decline in five months.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Chinese and Russian bombers and fighter jets stage joint patrol near Japan
A Chinese Air Force H-6 bomber is seen during a joint patrol with Russian military aircraft on Saturday.
U.S. missile moves in Japan send China clear message: A new era has arrived
Soldiers conduct the first Typhon midrange capability live-fire exercise outside of the continental United States, firing an SM-6 missile in July last year in Australia's Northern Territory during Exercise Talisman Sabre.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
LGBTQ+ families are building lives Japanese lawmakers still struggle to see
Haru Ono founded Nijiiro Kazoku in 2010 after forming a same-sex stepfamily. She said the impetus for founding the organization was that she couldn’t find much reliable information out there for families such as hers in Japan.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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