The European spinout from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Principal Real Estate Investments business, has sold a German residential complex on behalf of Peakside Real Estate Fund I, one of two funds it inherited from the Wall Street Bank.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The start-up firm Almacantar has bought Centre Point next to London’s busiest shopping street, with a loan provided by Eurohypo.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank has won a KRW500bn separate account mandate to invest in core markets around the world from Samsung Life Insurance. The mandate brings RREEF’s capital under management in Asia to the $3bn mark.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Sean O'Shea and Kyung Paik have departed from the New York-based multi-manager
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The French insurer reveals two-thirds of the €1.2bn raised so far this year has come from investors awarding separate mandates.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Warburg Pincus will partner with Lemon Tree Hotels to launch Oceanus Real Estate, a joint venture focusing on affordable housing projects in India.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Looking to raise $750m from tens of thousands of retail investors, the publicly registered vehicle will invest primarily in open-ended, core and core-plus property fund managers. However, the model could be expanded to closed-ended, value-added and opportunistic GPs in the future.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall funds are used to criticism nowadays, but their involvement in the first major IPO of a European real estate company in several years deserves some credit.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Asieh Mansour has been appointed head of Americas research at the brokerage and real estate services firm, departing the property investment arm of Deutsche Bank after 13 years.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The listed firm has identified 1,200 potential LPs, which it will try to recruit into its funds. Blackstone has collected $15bn for its sixth private equity fund, and has just launched fundraising for its next real estate vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
