More than one year after private equity firm Doughty Hanson decided to exit the real estate business its assets and team have passed over to the global asset manager.
2 min read · 30 April 2014
Paul Marcuse, former group managing director of global real estate at UBS Asset Management and CEO of AXA Real Estate, has joined Delin Capital Asset Management. The appointment comes as headhunters in Europe report high demand for such senior advisors.
3 min read · 28 April 2014
The US-based private equity firm has seen off bids from four other suitors offering around €1 billion for the €1.8 billion book.
2 min read · 28 April 2014
The $37 billion sovereign wealth fund is conducting due diligence on private real estate funds to supplement its growing direct portfolio.
2 min read · 25 April 2014
Less than two years into its real estate investment programme, the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan already is demonstrating a nous for determined deal-making.
4 min read · 25 April 2014
One of the city’s most iconic office buildings could end up attracting lines of buyers as owners try to resolve financial difficulties.
2 min read · 25 April 2014
Capital raised from North American value added, debt, and opportunistic funds tumbled down last quarter.
1 min read · 23 April 2014
With a lot of capital piling into Europe, the pool of distressed opportunities is shifting once again, according to Blackstone’s chairman.
3 min read · 21 April 2014
The vast majority of institutional investors remain fixated on core real estate despite continued cap rate compression and declining returns. So why are so few looking elsewhere?
2 min read · 18 April 2014
The real estate division of French insurance giant AXA has been selected by five Danish pension funds for a mandate to make senior property loans in Western Europe, mainly concentrating on the UK.
2 min read · 17 April 2014
