The global real estate investment manager has bought a minority stake in the ports business of private UK property group Peel Holdings in the latest example of infrastructure luring property investors.
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
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 rebel 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Though Richard Georgi is infamous for his brash, hard-charging manner—a former colleague once told <italic>The Independent:</italic>“He's a nice guy but I wouldn't invite him to my birthday party. And if I did I would warn everyone first”—he has nonetheless reach
2 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
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
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has taken an 18 percent stake in Spanish real estate company Grupo Pinar.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The Apax founder is set to launch a series of alternative asset vehicles, the first of which is likely to be a property-focused hedge fund.
5 min read · 23 January 2013
Reports of the new vehicle suggest the US investment bank may be increasingly eyeing the Asian markets.
4 min read · 23 January 2013
