Panelists at the PERE Tokyo Forum expressed a positive outlook for the Japanese real estate market, bolstered in part by the upcoming Olympics in 2020.
2 min read · 06 October 2014
Blackstone and the management of Valad Europe are running a process via UBS to advise on the sale of the private equity firm’s majority stake in the European asset and investment manager with a €4.9 billion portfolio and 180 staff in 13 countries.
2 min read · 03 October 2014
At the PREA conference yesterday, the University of Texas CIO emphasized partners and situations over location and strategy when investing in real estate.
3 min read · 02 October 2014
GreenOak Real Estate closed fundraising for its second US fund on Tuesday with a total of $756 million of capital commitments, PERE has learned.
2 min read · 02 October 2014
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) of Malaysia, plans to expand real estate investing in Continental Europe, the US, Japan and China and is planning to open an office in London.
3 min read · 02 October 2014
Over a series of transactions, the Zug-based private markets investment manager, has built up a stake in BlackRock Asia Fund III, equivalent to 10 percent of its original $3.9 billion of equity.
3 min read · 02 October 2014
According to a study presented at the annual Pension Real Estate Association conference, institutions are indicating an intention to increase their average target allocation to RE over the next year and are increasingly focused on higher return value-add and opportunistic strategies. Yet, they are investing at a slower pace compared to very recent years.
3 min read · 01 October 2014
Over the last 10 years, German institutional capital sources have pumped more money into overseas markets than North American, Middle East and Asian investors, according to Jones Lang LaSalle
3 min read · 29 September 2014
Global insurance firms are shifting away from fixed-income investments and into private assets, with real estate currently the most popular option.
2 min read · 29 September 2014
The Mumbai-based asset manager has also cancelled plans to raise a commercial real estate fund and is looking to focus its energies the residential sector instead.
2 min read · 30 September 2014
