At last week’s PERE Forum: Asia in Hong Kong, the conference’s delegates added their voices to those heard on stage. Thanks to technology, we can tell you what the approximately 250 delegates said.
4 min read · 30 January 2013
The balance of power is starting to shift back to landlords as US vacancy rates start to slowly decline, according to NAREIM members, with rents expected to stablise in 2011. However, challenges still remain.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing is marketing its majority stake in Shanghai Motel Management, a Chinese motels business. A sale of the 266-motel business could fetch a reported $1 billion for the Wall Street bank and its other investors.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
David Schaefer, head of Asia Pacific and global head of institutional capital at DTZ Investment Management, explained how back-ended fees should be considered attractive to both GPs and LPs alike, among other things.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The San Francisco-based firm has closed Shorenstein Realty Investors 10, which will focus predominantly on trophy office properties in the US.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Former M3 Capital Partners director Bernhard Karas explained to PERE on the sideline of last week's PERE Forum: Asia in Hong Kong how some investment vehicles that were supposed to be traditional private equity real estate funds ended up morphing into investment clubs.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Tony James told a London audience Wednesday night that Blackstone's real estate investment business had ‘several advantages’ over private equity.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has hired Rafael Avilés as country partner for Spain as the firm looks to expand investments in the region.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The $14bn oil and gas endowment has been slowly getting back into private equity investing after a placement agent scandal left its programme in limbo.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Former Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund chief investment officer Mark Burton told PERE on the sidelines of the PERE Forum: Asia last week, that GPs in the region must be even more transparent with international LPs owing to a lack of available market information.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
