These 15 firms have the skills and strategies to dominate the real estate wasteland, say market insiders. PERE Magazine September 2009.
10 min read · 21 January 2013
Churn continues at ING Real Estate Investment Managers as longstanding UK professional departs the Dutch firm.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Jeff Jacobson, the global chief executive officer at LaSalle Investment Management is moving from Europe to Asia to help the firm take advantage of ‘unprecedented’ opportunities. He will start work from the Singapore office effective from 1 January 2010.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Martin Barber, one of the UK’s best known property entrepreneurs and one of the few British executives with experience in the US REIT market, says he has backing from US investors for a company called Zenith Estates.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Chicago-based firm has agreed the sale of the Swiss Merchant Court Singapore hotel to Kuala Lumpur-based TA Enterprise, according to reports in Malaysia’s press.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The number of global property purchases has increased for the first time in 15 months with $62.8bn of sales during Q2 – up 17 percent compared to the previous quarter, according to Real Capital Analytics. Distress though remains 'alarmingly' high with $233bn of property now in trouble.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Korea Investment Corporation’s move into private equity is good news for GPs in a fundraising drought.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.
9 min read · 21 January 2013
UK asset manager Threadneedle has secured a debt facility from two banks for its open-ended property fund.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The desire to replace the GP is running high in some partnerships, but actually doing so is technically and politically difficult
3 min read · 21 January 2013