With private equity real estate groups like The Blackstone Group developing student housing projects in London, will dorms be able to provide big returns? By Aaron Lovell
3 min read · 23 January 2013
Two of the largest private real estate transactions on record were announced last month.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
In the latest sign of the asset class' development, a new secondaries firm targeting private equity real estate partnerships has launched.
6 min read · 23 January 2013
Crescent Hotels hopes to acquire and nurse back to health more than $1bn in ailing hotels via its debut private equity real estate vehicle.
4 min read · 23 January 2013
As the sport of golf soars in popularity, private equity real estate investors are actively targeting courses and resorts around the world. By Paul Fruchbom.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
THE 4 FOOD GROUPS 2006-11-01 Staff Writer <strong>RESIDENTIAL<br /> Mixed emotions greet landmark property sale</strong><br /> It all depends on your perspective.<br /> <br /> Either the acquisition last month of 110 residential buildings in downtown Manhattan represen
4 min read · 01 November 2006
Bunnies and blackjack 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Twenty-five years after the last Playboy Club opened, Hugh Hefner and his band of bunnies are back, this time in—where else?—Las Vegas. Housed in the Fantasy Tower of the Palms Casino, the new establishment will allow patrons to relive the heyday of the 60's and
1 min read · 23 January 2013
Wheel of real estate 2006-11-01 Staff Writer US television personality Merv Griffin has dabbled in all manner of pursuits over the years: movies, the record business, daytime and late-night television, game shows. But he has long been involved in another business line as well—real estate.<br /> <br
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Alain Roby's chocolate factory 2006-11-01 Staff Writer It may not eclipse the Burj Dubai or any of the other impossibly high buildings currently under development, but one new skyscraper recently made it into the <italic>Guinness Book of World Records</italic>. At more than 20 feet tall and const
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Influencing history 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Last month, alongside new memoirs by such well-known names as US Senator Barack Obama, <italic>The Corrections</italic> author Jonathan Franzen and humorist and travel writer Bill Bryson, another less-anticipated book hit the shelves at Barnes & Nob
2 min read · 23 January 2013
