As Japanese REITs continue trading at an average 35 percent discount, the Japan and California-based firm says it is creating a $450m vehicle to acquire them. Dalton says it is looking to buy mid-sized REITs.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
INREV is overhauling its definitions of core, value-added and opportunity funds after finding that measuring internal rates of return as well as leverage is not the best way to classify them.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms globally raised $40bn during the first half of 2008, according to proprietary data from sister publication PERE Magazine. This tally puts GPs on course to raise more than the record-breaking totals of last year.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Following its first deal in the UK, the firm has made the first purchase through its joint venture with Scius Partners, investing €40m in a retail park outside Stockholm.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US arm of ING Real Estate’s investment business is to change its name from ING Clarion within the next six to 12 months, according to the outgoing chairman and chief executive of ING Real Estate Investment Management, David Blight.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Boston-based real estate investment firm Taurus Investment Holdings has just opened offices in Prague, Athens and Lima. President and chief executive officer Peter Merrigan talks to PERE about the firm's strategy. By Zoe Hughes
5 min read · 22 January 2013
All the world's a playground for private equity real estate investors targeting global leisure-related property investments. And, arguably in more than any other real estate sector, changing demographics are driving the trend. By Eva Poon
10 min read · 22 January 2013
Russia's expanding middle class is opening up huge opportunities in the retail and office sector. But with investment in Russia still a risky gambit, particularly outside the two main cities, do foreign investors have the stomach for the opportunity? By Dave Keating
10 min read · 22 January 2013
Shortly after the firm revealed that it is opening an office in Beijing, Blackstone is set to acquire a commercial property in Shanghai for $158m.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
In the new world of private equity real estate investing, capital will be coming from everywhere and going everywhere, from increasingly sophisticated institutional investors spread around the globe. GPs should keep this in mind as they decide how to target Asia. By Dave Keating
5 min read · 22 January 2013
