In our final Friday Letter of the year, we select 10 things that happened in the private real estate investment universe during the last 12 months that we believe were indicative of things to come in the next 12.
5 min read · 19 December 2014
London-based property company, Chelsfield Group, which ANREV chairman Nicholas Loup is poised to join, has become the 200th member of the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles.
2 min read · 19 December 2014
After almost a year since news of the US investment bank’s purchase of the Asia real estate platform from the UK insurer first surfaced, the deal has completed and a $2 billion platform in the region has been created.
2 min read · 17 December 2014
The Tactical Opportunities division of Blackstone has invested in a unique investment platform from which returns are based on the cashflows of a portfolio of assets located in Singapore’s Sentosa island.
2 min read · 17 December 2014
The Singapore-based real estate investment management firm has raised $230 million for the first closing of its Asia value-add fund.
2 min read · 16 December 2014
The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund has tied up with Vatika Group to invest in residential projects in India, following a similar partnership with another local developer earlier this year.
2 min read · 16 December 2014
Korea’s preeminent state investor has completed a rare state fund-to-state fund sale, offloading 8 Canada Square in London’s Canary Wharf, to the Qatar Investment Authority.
2 min read · 15 December 2014
The Sydney-based real estate fund manager raised $320 million for the first closing of its third investment vehicle and is on course to reach its $400 million hard cap.
2 min read · 15 December 2014
The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund has made its first wholly-owned direct real estate investment in Latin America with the purchase of an under-construction office building in Brazil.
2 min read · 15 December 2014
US property is becoming more popular with Sovereign Wealth Funds
2 min read · 12 December 2014
