The $5bn private equity real estate firm founded by former Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds head of Europe, Richard Georgi, is looking to redeploy staff from its offices in Europe and Asia to the US in a marked strategy shift.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
As an asset class, infrastructure may one day be as big as real estate – assuming the latter doesn’t annex much of the former. Andy Thomson, editor of PERE's sister publication Infrastructure Investor, takes a closer look.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm has formed a roughly $200 million joint venture with Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison to buy retail centres anchored by grocery stores across the US.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The San Francisco-based real estate investment firm is putting two of its core office properties – one of which serves as DreamWorks Animation's northern California campus – up for sale.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
A venture between Square Mile, Invesco and Canyon Capital is buying a portfolio of 32 loans from Bank of America at a discount of 20 to 25 percent off the face value.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The real estate placement group, led by Anthony Carpenito (pic), has hired former REMCap executive Maxwell Rothaus as it bolsters its advisory activities ahead of potential new deals in 2012.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Barry Blattman, senior managing partner responsible for Brookfield’s global opportunistic real estate programme, revealed he had made the strategic move at this week’s PERE Global Investor Forum in Amsterdam.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based firm, led by former Blackstone real estate head John Kukral, has closed the second offering of its real estate fund, bringing the total amount raised since launch to approximately $2.3 billion.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New Delhi-based firm is expected to reach its $500m target for its second real estate opportunity fund, Red Fort India Real Estate Fund II, by the end of the year thanks to a mix of repeat investors and new capital sources.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Lake Forest, Illinois-based private equity investment firm has closed on $406.9 million in commitments for its latest real estate fund, which will focus on niche investments.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
