Tony James told a London audience Wednesday night that Blackstone's real estate investment business had ‘several advantages’ over private equity.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has hired Rafael Avilés as country partner for Spain as the firm looks to expand investments in the region.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The $14bn oil and gas endowment has been slowly getting back into private equity investing after a placement agent scandal left its programme in limbo.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Touchstone Capital Securities founder Fred Uruma talked to PERE on the sidleines of last week's PERE Forum: Asia about how what is happening in the J-REIT sector will lead to healthier transaction levels by opportunistic players.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based firm whose real estate activities are led by Leon Bressler, is reportedly in advanced discussions to buy Spanish real estate loans from Royal Bank of Scotland.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Little more than four months after forming a joint venture with US logistics company Panattoni for a logistics investment programme in central and Eastern Europe, Parsippany-based Pramerica Real Estate Investors has committed further investment to the partnership.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Paul Vosper, Morgan Stanley’s former global fund of funds’ chief operating officer, has joined RREEF as head of client relations for RREEF in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Anthony Niosi has teamed up with Chicago private equity firm Roseworth Capital, led by former JMB executive Michael Herzberg, to create NRCP, which initially will target US multifamily as well as public real estate deals.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Australian asset manager Access Capital has teamed up with the real estate fund manager founded by former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros as it targets PPPs and subordinated municipal debt.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based private equity firm has detailed in an SEC filing how one REIT, a private fund and the acquisition of Citi Property Investors has helped it build a $6.5bn portfolio, led by Joseph Azrack (pic).
2 min read · 18 January 2013
