The South Africa affordable housing focused firm has invested more than half of the committed capital to its debut private equity real estate fund, South African Workforce Housing Fund, and is now plotting a successor vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chicago firm has raised $650 million for its latest vehicle, which will focus on real estate companies in emerging and frontier markets.
1 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 state’s comptroller has appointed the fund’s current assistant controller of real estate, Marjorie Tsang, to serve in the position on an interim basis after the current CIO leaves on Thursday.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chicago-based real estate investment management firm, which has made a name for itself building up companies in Brazil and Mexico, is now expanding its Latin American presence to Colombia.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Using capital from its second Africa-focused private equity real estate fund, the London-based emerging markets private equity firm has acquired a 60 percent stake in Nairobi-based development management firm Mentor.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Pradera follows up plans for an Egyptian retail fund with plans for a fund targeting investments in the Turkish retail real estate sector. The London-based firm has teamed up with Istanbul-based Krea Real Estate to launch the vehicle.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Middle East private equity firm reveals an increased capital raising target for its ASAS real estate fund in an interview with news agency Reuters. The fund’s investment strategy will take in Saudi Arabia, the firm said.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Chad Pike, senior managing director and co-head of real estate at The Blackstone Group, said a ‘long, steady flow of deals was inevitable’, as he revealed the firm was about to close on a deal in Germany that went into bankruptcy in 2008.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
A poll of property brokers by Britain's RICS has concluded that the level of distressed property for sale listed on agents’ books in the first quarter of the year increased most in North America, Ireland, Spain and South Africa than in other markets.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
