The European real estate debt platform listed last month by Starwood Capital has opened its books with a £19m bridge portion in the refinancing of three of the capital city’s best known hotels.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
Some GPs are raising funds that are targeting less than $500 million in equity commitments. According to Pension Consulting Alliance, that may be a good thing for LPs.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The asset management arm of UK insurer Aviva says it has seen an uptick in interest in Asia-Pacific real estate from European and US investors.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The co-head of Morgan Stanley AIP’s real estate fund of funds group says a lack of liquidity in the market is increasing the number of opportunities for co-investments in the US and the UK.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The latest annual report from the UK charitable trust says the last time it made an allocation to a property fund managed by a third party was in 2008.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The European private equity real estate firm that is out on the road with Orion European Real Estate Fund IV has reportedly raised around half of its €1.3bn target so far.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Pacific Investment Management, the US fixed-income behemoth with $1.82 trillion in assets under management, has acquired five British shopping centres for its BRAVO fund, in conjunction with NewRiver Retail.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
The European Commission has adopted long-awaited AIFM ‘level 2’ measures that GPs hoped would be scrapped during follow-up rulemaking.
5 min read · 15 January 2013
Norges Bank Investment Management and joint venture partner Generali have bought 9 Avenue de Messine in Paris.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The US investment and asset management firm will add 64 investors to the BlackRock UK Property Fund by merging it with the RREEF UK Retail, Office and Industrial Property Funds.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
