Why Terra Firma’s failure to IPO its German residential platform is not the end for the firm’s founder.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Friends Life, a pension fund that manages £114 billion of assets has made a commitment of half a billion pounds to US-based Pramerica Investment Management to make senior commercial real estate loans in UK real estate.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, the real estate investment management arm of the US bank, has agreed to sell Executive Offices Group to Queensgate Investments, the London-based company started by Jason Kow which announced last year it had £500 million of equity from family officers to deploy.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The investment management business of UK insurer Aviva and its investment partners have called time on their investment in West End development PaddingtonCentral, selling the multi-building asset to London-listed REIT British Land.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Finding the right partner – one you can trust – is a factor one cannot do without in real estate investment in China, delegates heard at the PERE Forum: China 2013 in Beijing.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Although a short-term headache, China’s ‘credit crunch’ is not expected to heavily impact real estate investment in the country in the long run. Delegates heard at the PERE Forum: China 2013 in Beijing today how it could in fact lead to a healthier financing environment.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Terence Tang becomes the third senior executive at Invesco Real Estate’s Asia platform inherited from its acquisition of AIG Real Estate’s Asia business to depart. He joins the property services firm as it embarks on ‘a strategic move to set a new scene’.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The London-based firm has won a mandate to invest in property funds and other indirect methods from the £750 million Coca-Cola Enterprises Pension Scheme from current incumbent CBRE Global Multi-Manager.
1 min read · 28 August 2013
The London-based private equity firm has shelved plans for a €1.1 billion initial public offering of its German residential property company, Deutsche Annington Immobilien amid ‘adverse market conditions’.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Neil Odom-Haslett joins from Deutsche Pfandbriefbank to lead a push into real estate lending in the UK.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
