A struggling Chinese tech giant looking to make a big splash in the US is said to be selling off property to raise money

Chinese tech giant LeEco is looking to sell a 49-acre Silicon Valley property it purchased from Yahoo less than a year ago.

Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported early Friday that the cash-strapped company was in talks with another China-based firm about a land-sale that could top $260 million.

LeEco bought the property from Yahoo in June last year, around the same time it opened its first US headquarters in San Jose.

At the time, tech billionaire and LeEco CEO Jia Yueting said the old Yahoo site would be "an EcoCity that houses 12,000 employees."

The potential sale is the latest wrinkle in what has been a tumultuous run for LeEco. It started as an online entertainment company and expanded dramatically over the course of a decade, selling smartphones and televisions and, more recently, developing electric cars.

Jia said in a letter to employees last fall that LeEco's rapid expansion had ultimately dried up its cash reserves. Layoffs have hit LeEco globally, with hundreds of jobs cut at its offices in India and in Hong Kong.

Shares in LeEco's publicly traded flagship, Leshi Internet Information and Technology dipped 25% in the span of five months, Reuters reported.

Notably, LeEco is partnered with the US-based automotive company, Faraday Future - a startup that wants to build electric self-driving cars. Jia is Faraday Future's only publicly known investor. Like LeEco, Faraday has also had trouble paying its bills, which have led to lawsuits and executive departures over the past year.

LeEco got a $2.2 billion investment from the property company Sunac China Holdings in January, but that money was earmarked for LeEco's entertainment business and not its languishing car upstarts, which have yet to complete any production-ready vehicles or a factory in which to build them.