Fund managers and placement agents taking Patron Capital’s fundraising success as an omen for their own future success may need their heads examined.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The Sydney-based logistics real estate developer and investment manager has now forged a tie-up with the Abu Dhabi Investment Council with a view to investing more than $1 billion in the major logistics markets of Japan.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The New York-based retirement fund has purchased the 1 million-square-foot Festival Place Shopping Centre in Basingstoke from Grosvenor Fund Management for £280 million.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm, MGPA, has held a first close on MGPA Asien Spezialfonds, raising the equity exclusively from German institutional investors.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
With the platform’s 2008, $557m AEW Value Investors Asia just three investments from wrapping up, plans are afoot for a successor fund to hit the market early next year. Meanwhile, the firm is searching for a new MD after Peter Wittendorp span out a team earlier this summer.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Speaking on the opening day of the annual AFIRE conference, the global head of Blackstone's real estate group said the firm's success comes down to a simple strategy of team continuity and buying at a discount. In the US, a lack of new construction was giving the firm even greater confidence in the asset class.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The London-based private equity real estate firm has raised the largest opportunistic real estate fund for Europe so far this year.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm is expected to round out its latest distressed opportunity fund at close to $3 billion by the end of 2012, near the high end of its original target range.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The China-focused private equity real estate firm led by Texan Tom Delatour has raised $170 million for its first fund, Century Bridge China Real Estate Fund.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Martin Lamb switches from advisor to principal in a bid to capitalise on distressed debt and other opportunistic investments in Florida and other parts of southwest US.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
