The $5bn private equity real estate firm founded by former Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds head of Europe, Richard Georgi, is looking to redeploy staff from its offices in Europe and Asia to the US in a marked strategy shift.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
As an asset class, infrastructure may one day be as big as real estate – assuming the latter doesn’t annex much of the former. Andy Thomson, editor of PERE's sister publication Infrastructure Investor, takes a closer look.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm has formed a roughly $200 million joint venture with Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison to buy retail centres anchored by grocery stores across the US.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Despite stormy conditions across the global economy, delegates found refuge at the PERE Global Investor Forum in Amsterdam this week.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The real estate placement group, led by Anthony Carpenito (pic), has hired former REMCap executive Maxwell Rothaus as it bolsters its advisory activities ahead of potential new deals in 2012.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The former partner for the London-based global advisory firm has rejoined Ernst & Young as a principal in its growing real estate practice.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Barry Blattman, senior managing partner responsible for Brookfield’s global opportunistic real estate programme, revealed he had made the strategic move at this week’s PERE Global Investor Forum in Amsterdam.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based firm, led by former Blackstone real estate head John Kukral, has closed the second offering of its real estate fund, bringing the total amount raised since launch to approximately $2.3 billion.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
London-based Longbow Real Estate Capital has held a final closing on its Longbow UK Real Estate Debt Investments II fund and has also appointed ex-Aberdeen Asset Management managing director David Hunter as chairman.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based fund manager has teamed up with McDowell Properties to acquire a portfolio of 4,733 apartment units in Texas, Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma at a 40 percent discount to its $215 million face value.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
