Hotel investment in Asia surged to $7.5 billion last year but private equity only got a small piece of the pie.
2 min read · 25 March 2014
The Sam Zell-led private equity firm has acquired a Colombian hotel company in a deal that also involved co-investment capital from a university endowment.
2 min read · 24 March 2014
Thanks to concurrent liberalizing policy for Chinese institutions and restrictive policy regarding investing in IPOs, capital raising from RMB denominated sources for private real estate investing ballooned 109% last year.
2 min read · 24 March 2014
The London-based manager has reportedly asked Ernst & Young to carry out a strategic review for options, including a potential sale of a stake to a third party.
2 min read · 24 March 2014
Delegates of this week’s PREA Spring 2014 conference should walk away from the event considering three crucial consequences of the coming end of quantitative easing.
3 min read · 21 March 2014
At the New Jersey Division of Investment’s March 19 meeting, the $76.5 billion pension plan committed $100 million to Och-Ziff Real Estate Fund III and gave an update on its massive secondaries sale to NorthStar and Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 21 March 2014
Aviva Investors’ Asian real estate business, which currently is for sale through Jones Lang LaSalle, has seen senior executive Guy Cawthra leave to join Australian developer cum fund manager Lend Lease.
2 min read · 21 March 2014
The Indian asset manager has held the final close for its first rupee-denominated property fund in under three months, and is still considering a foreign-denominated fund.
2 min read · 21 March 2014
Oaktree’s chairman said that one particular truism in real estate would become more problematic under the Federal Reserve’s tapering policy.
3 min read · 20 March 2014
The purchase and renovation of the UK Saga Ruby cruise liner is the third investment by Suchad Chiaranussati’s Singapore-based firm in the frontier market.
2 min read · 20 March 2014
