Why the sale of a stake in a £1.4bn loan book by Royal Bank of Scotland ended up as one for a debt fund, not an opportunistic real estate vehicle.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Beginning this quarter, the Chicago-based real estate association will publish an index based on income-producing properties in the US that have seen transaction movement. The index was originally published by the MIT Center for Real Estate.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania-based real estate asset management firm has acquired a six million square-foot portfolio of industrial distribution facilities across the Midwest and Southeast from Pinchal & Company.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based real estate sale firm has purchased 1.6 million square feet of self-storage properties in California, Illinois and Hawaii from A-American Self Storage for $86m.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Hamburg-based ECE group has raised most of the equity for its first ever fund with a final close expected this summer. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation is understood to be among investors in the prime shopping centre vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The break-up of ING continues with as the Dutch group sells out of its Australian property funds management business. Yesterday it completed the sale of its global securities business.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The real estate arm of Aberdeen Asset Management is looking to Sweden as the first in a country-by-country series of funds investing in residential property.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Olivier de Poulpiquet, co-CEO and co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, is to relocate to Singapore as the firm plans to switch from net sellers of real estate in the region to become net buyers.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The UK REIT is poised to make an uncharacteristically opportunistic foray by buying a portfolio of properties occupied by Virgin Active health clubs.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Canadian pension fund manager known as AIMCo, which looks after the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, wants to increase returns partly by investing outside its home territory, including the US and Europe.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
