Investors

VIDEO: Looking beyond Tokyo

Panelists at PERE’s Tokyo Forum held last week spoke about how foreign institutional investors are looking beyond Tokyo towards other Japanese cities for investments.

Harvard’s direct RE strategy makes 20.4%

Implications for real estate fund managers and their traditional commingled funds as Harvard Management makes 20.4 percent from its direct real estate holdings

Gaw Capital leads Korean investors in £191m London deal

In its fifth transaction in London and ninth separate account, direct investment since 2010, Gaw Capital has lead a group of Korean investors, including the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union, in the purchase of Exchange House in London from BlackRock Real Estate.

COMMENT: A maverick manoeuvre

The latest fund of SC Capital has no hard cap – and deliberately so. Is this a test of GP discipline or LP loyalty?

Ascendas JV to build $130m business park in Vietnam

The Singapore-based property developer and fund manager has teamed up with a Vietnamese venture part-owned by Gaw Capital Partners to develop an industrial park in the outskirts of the Ho Chi Minh city.

Ascendas in JV to build $130mn business park in Vietnam

The Singapore-based real estate company has teamed up with a Vietnamese firm to develop an industrial park in the outskirts of the Ho Chi Minh city.

Madison strikes $163m in Norway deals

The New York-based firm is buying interests in an office in Oslo occupied by energy group Statoil and a joint venture owning retail property in the city

Florida SBA targets $900m for RE in new fiscal year

The investment manager for Florida’s public pension plan so far has closed on two property fund commitments totaling $150 million for the new 12-month period.

GLP completes $2.5bn fundraise for China platform

Confirming a second tranche of funding from Chinese investors of $875 million, the Asia and Brazil focused logistics real estate developer and investment manager has now completed its funding program for its China business.

VIDEO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics to drive growth

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.