As Starwood Capital looks to expand into India, it has brought Balaji Rao on board to head its operations on the Asian subcontinent.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The UK government’s investment arm dedicated to emerging markets has placed $100m into a vehicle focused on property in African—its first commitment to a fund focused solely on property.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The Texas-based private equity firm has bought the previously unaffiliated Lone Star Steakhouse chain for $600m.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Fremont Realty Capital, Shorenstein Properties and New York real estate investor Mark Karasick have acquired 311 S. Wacker, a fixture in the Windy City skyline.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The world’s largest global property services firm takes full control of Noble Gibbons.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The $90m acquisition may represent South Florida’s largest industrial transaction for the year.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based fund, tied to basketball legend Magic Johnson, will partner with a developer to build a 266-unit project as part of an urban revitalization in the city’s Southeast quadrant.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Brentwood Associates will sell the consumer-product company to Carlyle after a hotly contested auction.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
As activity in the European hospitality sector accelerates, private equity firms are reshaping the industry's ownership structure, begging the question as to who will own hotels in the future. By Arthur de Haast, global chief executive officer at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
4 min read · 23 January 2013
James Quille, the chief executive officer of Macquarie Global Property Advisors, has spent much of his 30-year career traveling the world in search of real estate opportunities. Here he talks with PERE about his roots in London, his travels to China and working in the copper mines of Zambia. By Paul Fruchbom
7 min read · 23 January 2013