Blackstone and the management of Valad Europe are running a process via UBS to advise on the sale of the private equity firm’s majority stake in the European asset and investment manager with a €4.9 billion portfolio and 180 staff in 13 countries.
2 min read · 03 October 2014
Partners Group’s latest activities in the real estate secondaries marketplace have propelled itself and the sector further into the limelight.
4 min read · 03 October 2014
LaSalle Investment Management’s £440m UK LaSalle Residential Finance (LRF) fund has expanded its mandate into hotels and completed its first deal in the sector.
2 min read · 02 October 2014
Over a series of transactions, the Zug-based private markets investment manager, has built up a stake in BlackRock Asia Fund III, equivalent to 10 percent of its original $3.9 billion of equity.
3 min read · 02 October 2014
Over the last 10 years, German institutional capital sources have pumped more money into overseas markets than North American, Middle East and Asian investors, according to Jones Lang LaSalle
3 min read · 29 September 2014
Lone Star has bought another €600m of European non-performing real estate debt, winning part of Ulster Bank’s Project Achill sale, PERE's sister publication Real Estate Capital revealed.
2 min read · 30 September 2014
In an unusual move, Oxford Properties is flipping the building after closing on its acquisition of the asset from Blackstone last week.
2 min read · 26 September 2014
With the acquisition of Nishi Shinjuku KF Building, a 106,000 square foot office in the Nishi-Shinjuku district of central Tokyo, the fund’s acquisition period comes to a close with it holding ¥21 billion of investments.
2 min read · 29 September 2014
Panelists at PERE’s Tokyo Forum held last week spoke about how foreign institutional investors are looking beyond Tokyo towards other Japanese cities for investments.
2 min read · 25 September 2014
In its fifth transaction in London and ninth separate account, direct investment since 2010, Gaw Capital has lead a group of Korean investors, including the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union, in the purchase of Exchange House in London from BlackRock Real Estate.
2 min read · 26 September 2014
