ABP’s sale of KFN, which owns €1.6 billion worth ($2.3 billion) of prime Dutch offices, completes a 12-year program of reducing wholly-owned property investment in the Netherlands as it diversifies holdings internationally.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US pension fund has agreed to invest in Dutch and Belgium logistics assets via a new joint venture as it ramps up its growing international exposure.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Henderson’s partnership with Valeo Companies will target housing tied to California’s public university and community colleges.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The 10-year old investment partnership has reportedly paid $120 million for a three-building office complex in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based firm has expanded its team of professionals with the addition of former Amgen, Disney and Starwood Hotels executive Richard Nanula.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
PERE looks back at the year just passed for the trends that mattered most. Today we look at trend number three – in 2007 Western firms raced to expand their investment mandates globally and to hire people with the right experience and outlook for the job.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
PGGM has agreed to invest a further $100 million to the US firm’s class A apartment communities fund on top of the original $100 million committed last year.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Happy New Year, PERE reader! The year 2007 was the best of times as well as the worst of times. But really, even the worst of 2007 was seen by some private equity real estate market participants as a mere reversion to the mean. After all, compared against the dizzying first half of 2007, almost any real estate market looks disappointing.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
Infinity, a Manchester, UK-based private equity firm is raising £100 million to invest in England.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
PERE looks back at the year just passed for the trends that mattered most. Today we look at trend number two – private equity real estate management companies monetized their franchises through partial sales to external investors.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
