Until now, most RMB-denominated real estate funds have involved a number of high-net-worth individuals backing domestic vehicles dedicated to particular properties. However, at PERE’s first conference in mainland China this week, there was talk of a change.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The investment management subsidiary of the US insurer has set aside an initial pool of $100 million to establish a programme to support real estate and private equity firms with strong women and minority participation as part of an overall companywide diversity initiative.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The London-based insurer becomes the latest non-bank to lend on real estate investments with a £121m loan to UNITE Group, the UK’s largest developer and manager of student accommodation.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The investment management subsidiary of the US insurance company has allocated capital to core real estate vehicles sponsored by Morgan Stanley, Clarion and Invesco as it pursues an income-focused real estate strategy.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Despite a greater shift toward core investments, investors said they were leaving the door open for opportunistic strategies in real estate, albeit with less of an appetite for leverage.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Korea’s largest non-life insurance company reveals to PERE that it has devised an investment strategy for 2012 that, for the first time, includes putting its capital to work via funds alongside its main focus on direct investments in core property markets.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The French insurer said it had raised €2 billion of fresh commitments on behalf of a strategy to make debt investments across Europe backed by prime property.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Houston-based developer and investment management firm has completed the purchase of an office building in London on behalf of an unnamed Asia investor.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
One of the highest profile figures in European private equity real estate is leaving German insurance company Gothaer for Austria’s largest real estate firm chaired by the country’s former prime minister.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
AEW Europe said investors should be demanding higher-risk premiums, according to the circumstances of individual markets, and that 'non super-safe yields' will rise across the board in the eurozone by year-end unless a ‘convincing solution’ to the crisis is found to satisfy financial markets.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
