The recent recruitment of Morgan Stanley’s David Smoot to expand its private equity operations in North America accelerates Dubai International Capital’s plans to open up shop in New York City.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US senior housing real estate investment trust, American Land Lease, is the latest company to announce a strategic review of its assets, including a possible sale of its properties. Since the start of 2008, the US REIT benchmark index, the FTSE NAREIT All REIT Index, has fallen 5.5 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The quoted Swiss alternative asset manager saw its private markets business, including real estate and private equity, grow by $3.4bn over the past year. However foreign exchange and hedge fund outflows hit the overall increase in assets under management in its pre-close statement.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The firm has joined with Chinese real estate firm Agile Property, investing $772m in their development on Hainan island.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The company’s real estate investment arm, Landmark Land Holdings, has made a new investment from its closed-ended fund in an integrated township project on the Mumbai-Pune expressway.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Retail investors were given a gloomy picture of the state of the market, after a report by UK property services firm, Colliers CRE, suggested that not only could real rents fall up to 20 percent over the next three years, but that capital values could also fall another 10 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Following the firm’s purchase last month of two former Macklowe buildings in New York, San Francisco-based Shorenstein has acquired the Main Plaza office building in California from US REIT Maguire Properties.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Ernst & Young veteran Howard Roth will lead the firm’s global real estate practice, succeeding Dale Reiss who retired in June this year. The group is focusing in the near term on infrastructure, sustainable investing, the credit dislocation and new reporting standards.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity investor is set to join the slew of firms looking to profit from a growing global need for finance to meet infrastructure costs. Some estimates suggest as much as $360bn will come from private sources.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
As the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds benefit from rising energy prices and growing economies, many are expected to increase their allocation to the real estate asset class. A report from German real estate investment firm Degi predicts allocations will rise to 15 percent over the next few years, from an average of four to 11 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
