Toronto and New York-based Brookfield Asset Management has led a group of institutional investors via its global opportunistic fund to take over EZW Gazeley, the owner of 5.64 million square feet of logistics property in Europe.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Google’s keynote speech at the PERE Summit Europe this week underlined how private equity real estate firms need to be ready to accommodate changing worker and consumer habits.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Early evidence of capital arriving in Europe from the A$1.5 trillion Australian superannuation industry arrives as a $A60bn fund picks Henderson Global Investors for an emerging UK retail property strategy.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
The New York-based private equity firm has acquired retail warehouses outside London for its debut transaction.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
As part of its plan to buy €2.4 billion of stabilized industrial assets in Europe, a venture between the manager of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and Prologis Europe has bought 11 distribution assets in the UK from LondonMetric Property.
1 min read · 28 August 2013
Pierre Cherki, head of alternatives and real assets at Deutsche Bank Asset & Wealth Management, said the bank is looking at a number of higher-yielding strategies given the ‘significantly higher interest’ among investors since the beginning of the year.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Lee Neibart of AREA Property Partners talks with PERE about becoming part of Ares Management.
4 min read · 28 August 2013
After hearing how Google was thinking about its real estate needs, panelists on the first day of PERE’s annual European conference emphasized the importance of wrapping their strategies around competitive occupiers, following strong labor pools and identifying industry clusters.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The real estate arm of the Queensland government-owned investment firm has bought a 49 percent stake in a portfolio of eight US malls currently owned by Forest City.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Brendan McDonagh, chief executive officer of Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency, told delegates at PERE’s annual European event in London today the state organization was keen to strike more deals with private equity real estate firms and harbors ambitions to be more innovative in the types of deals it agrees.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
