With private equity real estate groups like The Blackstone Group developing student housing projects in London, will dorms be able to provide big returns? By Aaron Lovell
3 min read · 23 January 2013
In the latest sign of the asset class' development, a new secondaries firm targeting private equity real estate partnerships has launched.
6 min read · 23 January 2013
Crescent Hotels hopes to acquire and nurse back to health more than $1bn in ailing hotels via its debut private equity real estate vehicle.
4 min read · 23 January 2013
As the sport of golf soars in popularity, private equity real estate investors are actively targeting courses and resorts around the world. By Paul Fruchbom.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
Wheel of real estate 2006-11-01 Staff Writer US television personality Merv Griffin has dabbled in all manner of pursuits over the years: movies, the record business, daytime and late-night television, game shows. But he has long been involved in another business line as well—real estate.<br /> <br
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms are looking to capitalize on Hong Kong's recovery. But as China's development continues unabated, will the mainland's economic emergence eventually threaten the city's prosperity? By Robin Marriott
10 min read · 23 January 2013
The hotelier 2006-11-01 Staff Writer In early 1991, 31-year-old Barry Sternlicht was out of a job. Seven years later, he was the chief executive officer of the largest hotel company in the world. Along the way, Sternlicht not only completed one of the most dramatic comebacks in the history of the asset class
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The young gun 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Chad Pike , still in his thirties, is running Blackstone's real estate operations in Europe, making him one of the youngest stars in the asset class. Though he is often compared to two other young guns—his counterpart in the US, Jon Gray, and the co-head of Morgan Stanl
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The market maker 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Globalization has to start somewhere. In the case of European private equity real estate, it arguably began when US investment banks moved their principal real estate investment arms across the Atlantic—in other words, it began with Roger Orf .<br /> <br /&
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The financial engineer 2006-11-01 Staff Writer It is a rare thing to be able to say that you brought fresh financing techniques to a mature market, but Guy Hands can lay claim to just that in Europe. The former Goldman Sachs “whiz kid,” Hands pioneered securitizations in the UK, enabling his his 70-strong No
1 min read · 23 January 2013
