The French private equity firm has started exclusive negotiations to buy Kaufman et Broad, in the latest example of frenetic M&A activity in the European homebuilding sector.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Following similar moves in other emerging markets, the bank’s real estate special situations fund is buying into a Polish developer to gain exposure to the country’s burgeoning property market.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The London-based firm has purchased a holiday home site on Spain’s Costa Dorada just two weeks after shares in Spanish residential firms tumbled on concerns of oversupply.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Mikhail Khodorkovsky may be sitting in a Russian jail cell, but his former company’s real estate assets are only appreciating in value.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
US buyout firm Apollo Management has secured UK property firm Countrywide with help from the hedge fund Polygon, after frantic eleventh hour negotiations which saw two consecutive revised bids from Apollo.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Dawnay Day Sirius, which has been set up to convert large mixed-use German properties into flexible workspace, floated today on the Alternative Investment Market.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The UK buyout firm has realized £200m from the sale-and-leaseback of a portion of the property estate of UK off-license chain Threshers.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Intermediate Capital has closed its fourth mezzanine fund with €2.25 billion of firepower – the biggest ever raised in Europe. The fund will invest in mezzanine and senior debt, and could also be used for equity co-investments.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
At its third annual conference, INREV has named a new chairman, proposed new protocol for due diligence and released European fund returns for 2006.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has struck a knockout blow in the battle for UK health and beauty chain Alliance Boots this morning, after sweetening its bid to £11bn and increasing the stake it controls to about 25 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
