Goldman Sachs investment banker David Matheson will help drive Oxford Properties into Continental Europe as the platform seeks to invest £5 billion outside of North America in the next five years.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The London-based asset manager has brought aboard Thomas Guyot who previously worked for French property companies connected to Caisse des Depots and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing.
1 min read · 28 August 2013
Copenhagen-based PFA Pension, which is in the early stages of an international expansion strategy, has committed £50 million to Resolution Real Estate Fund IV, which just made its maiden investment.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Germany’s Commerzbank has sold a €1.3 billion non-performing loan portfolio to Lone Star Funds and €3.7 billion of performing loans to US bank Wells Fargo, plus the entire operational real estate financing activities of its subsidiary Hypothekenbank Frankfurt in the UK.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The $75.64 billion pension system disclosed the names of all 25 fund interests in its massive real estate secondaries offering yesterday. It also committed $185 million to Prologis’ second open-ended core fund focused on Europe.
4 min read · 28 August 2013
The Canadian pension plan has bought a 50 percent stake in eight central London offices for £173.9 million from the BT Pension Scheme and has formed a longer-term joint venture to gather more assets.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Chris Bates has joined the real estate investment manager from Harville as it seeks to increase its lending footprint beyond the US.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
London-based Internos Global Investors has held a second close for its Hotel Real Estate Fund I, with the equity coming from an all-German cast of investors and zero co-investment from the general partner.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The London-based private equity firm that last week shelved plans for a €1.1 billion initial public offering of its German residential property company, Deutsche Annington Immobilien, amid ‘adverse market conditions’, has announced it is coming back for a second tilt.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The Sydney-based firm’s open-ended logistics real estate fund has attracted €550 million in fresh equity from institutional investors although it stated it there was €900 million trying to get in. Together with a bond issued in March, the fund now has more than €800 million in firepower.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
