The private equity group has plans to create at least 4,000 beds in London in a joint venture with UK student accommodation operator Generation Estates.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The private equity group has plans to create at least 4,000 beds in London as it announces a joint venture with UK student accommodation operator, Generation Estates
2 min read · 24 January 2013
In a recent meeting, a San Diego pension offered a rare glimpse at internal rates of return and performances of two heavy-hitting infrastructure investors – Global Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, said its exposure to alternative assets had dropped to 25 percent at March 31, 2010 from 30 percent a year earlier in its annual report published this week. The drop came as a result of lagging valuations in its real estate and private equity portfolios behind its public equity valuations.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
US banks are currently sitting on billions of dollars worth of souring real estate loans. What for? According to Sam Zell, to stay alive banks and other real estate owners needs to come clean about their problems. By Zoe Hughes.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Stephen Moseley, a former co-president of advisory firm PCG Capital Partners, is suing his former employer for 'fraudulent business practices'.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Timothy Grady, the real estate veteran responsible for launching and growing Merrill Lynch’s private equity real estate platform in Asia, has joined Mark McGoldrick’s Mount Kellett Capital Management as a managing director.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
CBRE Investors, the real estate investment management firm of Los Angeles-based property services firm CB Richard Ellis, has opened an office in Dubai’s Dubai International Financial Centre as it seeks to capitalise on growing demand from local investors for real estate.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Pacific Real Estate Capital Partners, the business set up in 2009 by Sir John Beckwith and Gerald Parkes, has established an alternative property fund business, with the Liquid Property Fund its first product
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Closed-ended real estate funds are spending an average of 400 days in market but are corralling just 12 percent of their target equity commitments.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
