The purchase of the TfL building in East London is part of the UK insurer’s pledge to commit £15 billion to UK infrastructure and direct real estate.
1 min read · 07 January 2016
The deal is the first on behalf of the €2.2 billion pan-European office platform TH Real Estate’s parent company TIAA-CREF has with Swedish National Pension Funds AP1 and AP2.
2 min read · 06 January 2016
The London-based global asset management company has hired Makoto Fukui to help the firm raise capital from Japanese and other Asian institutions.
1 min read · 05 January 2016
The Baltimore-based global asset manager is reportedly the exclusive bidder for the New York-based real estate investment manager.
2 min read · 05 January 2016
The acquisition of the €1.4 billion Berlin trophy property portfolio is part of a greater focus on the German market for Brookfield Property Partners which has relocated its European chairman to the German capital.
2 min read · 04 January 2016
The London-based real estate firm has teamed-up with UK-listed private equity firm Electra Partners to purchase the home reversion equity release business of Grainger as it looks to acquire finance-related businesses and portfolios.
1 min read · 04 January 2016
Leverage is likely to be a contributor to the next property downturn but not to the extent it was last time, according to Palmer Capital’s Nick Cooper.
2 min read · 21 December 2015
The falling value of the Euro was just one factor behind European real estate markets attracting more capital from global investors in 2015, according to Europa partner Jason Oram.
1 min read · 21 December 2015
To tell the story of Asia’s real estate capital markets in 2015, you have to start with what happened in China, according to Paul Guest, the recently appointed lead real estate strategist at Swiss investment bank UBS.
2 min read · 18 December 2015
As far as the Connecticut-based placement agent is concerned, 2016 will be the year when “complementary strategies” gather serious momentum among institutional investors.
2 min read · 18 December 2015
