Commercial real estate loans and real estate owned are being snapped up by private capital in three quarters of the cases – and Europe’s ‘bad banks’ are the big opportunity.
3 min read · 06 October 2014
Blackstone and the management of Valad Europe are running a process via UBS to advise on the sale of the private equity firm’s majority stake in the European asset and investment manager with a €4.9 billion portfolio and 180 staff in 13 countries.
2 min read · 03 October 2014
Partners Group’s latest activities in the real estate secondaries marketplace have propelled itself and the sector further into the limelight.
4 min read · 03 October 2014
LaSalle Investment Management’s £440m UK LaSalle Residential Finance (LRF) fund has expanded its mandate into hotels and completed its first deal in the sector.
2 min read · 02 October 2014
2014 may not reach the same levels as 2013
2 min read · 01 October 2014
In hauling almost $2bn for the Partners Group Real Estate Secondary 2013 fund, the Zug, Switzerland-based private markets manager has broken its own record for capital raising for a real estate secondaries fund.
2 min read · 01 October 2014
The New York-based asset management giant BlackRock is preparing the launch of its first opportunistic real estate fund since taking over MGPA in October 2013.
2 min read · 30 September 2014
Lone Star has bought another €600m of European non-performing real estate debt, winning part of Ulster Bank’s Project Achill sale, PERE's sister publication Real Estate Capital revealed.
2 min read · 30 September 2014
In its fifth transaction in London and ninth separate account, direct investment since 2010, Gaw Capital has lead a group of Korean investors, including the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union, in the purchase of Exchange House in London from BlackRock Real Estate.
2 min read · 26 September 2014
The New York-based firm is buying interests in an office in Oslo occupied by energy group Statoil and a joint venture owning retail property in the city
2 min read · 24 September 2014
