JPMorgan’s new opportunistic real estate platform, Junius Real Estate Partners, has hired Rich Gomel, who most recently oversaw Starwood’s hotel investments and $1bn hospitality fund.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Chad Pike, senior managing director and co-head of real estate at The Blackstone Group, said a ‘long, steady flow of deals was inevitable’, as he revealed the firm was about to close on a deal in Germany that went into bankruptcy in 2008.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
PERE presents 10 takeaways from this week’s PERE Forum: Europe conference.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate fund manager has held a final closing on a $100 million Brazil sidecar to its Latin America fund, bringing its combined regional commitments to $554 million.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chicago-based firm specialising in student and senior housing has closed on nearly $600 million for its latest fund, almost $100 million more than its original target.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles has appointed Jeff Rupp and and is to open an office in Brussels as it begins a greater lobby effort on regulatory issues.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The investment manager is looking to raise $50 million to invest in New York and New Jersey.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York secondaries firm has tapped Todd Silverman to run its equity capital markets business.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors has raised two thirds of its target capital for its third global fund of funds, PERE has learned.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Continuing its foray into Europe’s student accommodation sector, The Carlyle Group has bought the former headquarters of The Rotterdam Social Insurance Bank with a view to converting it into a 250 room ‘student hotel’.
2 min read · 18 January 2013