China's property markets are luring investors from around the world, but corruption and kickbacks can make any real estate a tricky proposition. By Robin Marriott
5 min read · 23 January 2013
The Apax founder is set to launch a series of alternative asset vehicles, the first of which is likely to be a property-focused hedge fund.
5 min read · 23 January 2013
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
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
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
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
When private a faded hotel in Japan, there By Alison Granito
9 min read · 23 January 2013
The internationalist 2006-11-01 Staff Writer In close to five years at the California Public Employees' Retirement System, Mike McCook transformed the largest pension fund in the US into a global powerhouse among institutional investors in real estate. Though he left his post earlier this year, McCook's infl
1 min read · 23 January 2013
When Paul Kazilionis and Bill Walton left Morgan Stanley to set up their own opportunity fund in the early 1990s, they embarked on a partnership that is considered one of the most successful in the history of the asset class.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
