Irish private property companies – sometimes called the Irish ‘buyaspora’ – have been investing successfully overseas for years. Now these astute investors are gearing up for the next step by forming private equity-style funds.
2 min read · 31 January 2013
Before you take Blackstone’s new $10.9 billion private equity real estate fund close as a sign that 2008 is due to be another record-breaking year for fundraising, consider some inconvenient truths.
2 min read · 31 January 2013
If clarity were a commodity trading on the world’s stock exchanges its price would be going through the roof right about now.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
Despite the party mood in Cannes, private equity real estate general partners acknowledge that in the current fundraising climate power is shifting decidedly to LPs.
3 min read · 01 February 2013
Human rights abuses and private equity real estate are not two phrases you would often speak in the same sentence. However if some legislators in the state of California have their way, institutions that back real estate funds may soon be accused of aiding and abetting man’s inhumanity to man.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
At PERE’s first annual PERE Forum: Asia in Hong Kong, the importance of establishing strong local ties was repeatedly stressed as the key to investment success in Asian real estate.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
It’s that time of year again: get ready for one of the wildest real estate shindigs on the planet.
3 min read · 01 February 2013
Comments made yesterday by Alan Greenspan about the US housing market offer an interesting view on what signs may indicate a stabilizing real estate market.
1 min read · 01 February 2013
For those who thought 2006 was a knockout year for private equity real estate fundraising, hold on to your socks. The year just passed marked a new milestone.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
Predictions continue to be gloomy for real estate deal volume in Europe and North America in 2008. But Asia seems to have not received the slowdown memo.
3 min read · 01 February 2013
