China-focused private equity firm Hony Capital has made its first investment into China’s real estate sector with an RMB 1.8 billion investment into Shanghai-listed real estate and construction company Chengtou Holdings.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
The New York-based private equity firm has acquired Central Plaza from Singapore-listed real estate fund Forterra Trust in a deal valued at $267 million.
1 min read · 27 August 2013
Delegates at this week’s Global Investor Forum in Los Angeles were advised to pay heed to the increasing impact of the market’s smaller investors.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
The Asia and Europe focused private equity real estate firm, currently the subject of a sale, has announced it has raised an addition €50 million for its MGPA Asien Spezialfonds, a core-plus fund intended for German institutional investors.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
The London-based private equity real estate firm has revealed the returns it has generated from the first three investments of its second opportunity fund, Frogmore Real Estate Partners (FREP) II.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
Requiring a manager to put some “skin in the game" may be more problematic than beneficial for a limited partner when striving to achieve alignment of interest.
3 min read · 27 August 2013
The chief investment officer of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies says that, because of improving fundamentals, there’s good reason why more money is coming into the commercial real estate debt space.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
The Armonk, New York-based firm’s latest opportunistic vehicle, which will target US student housing investments, is anticipated to close oversubscribed after launching earlier this year.
1 min read · 27 August 2013
The real estate arm of UK insurer Prudential’s investment management division is to adopt its parent company’s name – M&G Real Estate – from June.
1 min read · 27 August 2013
The duties of Phillip Burns, who joined the Zug-based private equity real estate firm in 2011, will pass for now to chief operating officer Thomas Landschreiber.
1 min read · 27 August 2013
