KE Holdings Continues Purchasing Land With $95 Million Shanghai Plot Snapped Up

January 13, 2025
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KE Holdings (also known as Beike) has stepped up its venture into the property development industry after winning an auction for a plot of land in Shanghai.

According to Chinese outlet Sina Finance, KE Holdings secured the land for approximately RMB 697 million ($95 million), marking the Chinese real estate giant's first significant investment into the property development market in a tier-one city.

The purchase takes Beike's investment in land to more than $340 million in the past six months and appears to be a serious strategic play for the company, traditionally a portal operator.

The company failed in attempts to secure more land in the first half of 2024 before completing a string of purchases in the second six months of the year; in Chengdu, Hangzhou and Xi'an.

At $95 million, the plot in Shanghai is no flutter. However, a competitive auction that saw 17 rounds of bidding that included staving off state-owned property developers Xiangyu and Poly Real Estate (itself a subsidiary of another state-owned entity), may have pushed the price up for Beike.

Beike, surely one of the largest real estate companies in the world, now holds enough market share in the real estate development industry to qualify the company as one of China's smaller real estate developers in its own right. At nearly half a billion dollars of current spend, this number will likely rise in the next few quarters.

KE Holdings recorded revenues of $3.2 billion in the third quarter of 2024 with cash reserves of circa $1.3 billion. It has deep connections to the Chinese real estate market and has a notoriously diversified revenue model that includes a home renovation business that generated revenues of $575 million in Q3 '24.

January 13, 2025
Harvey is an experienced property journalist and copywriter. He has written about the property industry since 2015, starting at The Property Franchise Group in the UK, before moving to Spain to work for Spotahome. He has blogged for the private rented sector, ghostwritten for UK property experts and written case studies for franchise owners around the UK. Harvey joined Online Marketplaces as a News Editor in 2022.

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