The private equity firm’s inaugural real estate vehicle has partnered with California-based multi-family player Bascom to invest in NPLs and distressed properties.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
If the investment bank hits its target it would surpass the current high-water mark, the $5.3 billion fund raised by The Blackstone Group this summer.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Paul Simmons has joined the New York-based private equity real estate firm as a partner focused on acquisitions and business development, with a particular emphasis on both the domestic market and Mexico.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The developer 2006-11-01 Staff Writer When the US real estate market collapsed in the late 1980s, many private investors, to say nothing of national governments, were caught in the headlights. Eugene Golub, however, entered the fray almost immediately: Golub & Company, a Chicago-based developer, became t
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The gatekeeper 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Nori Gerardo Lietz is someone you should be nice to—at least if you're an opportunity fund manager.<br /> <br /> As one of the most respected pension fund consultants in the world, Gerardo Lietz wields enormous influence over where institutional investor
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The gambler 2006-11-01 Staff Writer As the head of Colony Capital, Tom Barrack was at the forefront of investing in the sort of assets-cumoperating-companies that now permeate the private equity real estate industry: hotels, theme restaurants, pubs and, perhaps his firm's most well known investments, casinos
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The pioneer 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Ira Lubert, half of the Philadelphia private equity real estate firm Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds, has described his partner, Dean Adler, as the real estate brains behind the operation. Another fund manager told <italic>PERE</italic> that Adler stood out as “
1 min read · 23 January 2013
Private Equity Real Estate selects the 30 people who have had the most influence in shaping the global private equity real estate industry—for better or for worse.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
Since 1998, CBRE Investors has revamped its private equity real estate business. Just as the company announced plans to reshuffle its executive suite, PERE sat down with the firm's leadership to discuss where the firm came from—and where it's going. By Aaron Lovell
9 min read · 23 January 2013
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
