Helaba bank and Aareal step in to finance NPS’ French shopping centre, O’Parinor, which Rockspring Property Investment Managers sourced a year ago.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The potential of the nonperforming loan market in Germany alone may be enough to create its own ‘discrete asset class’. PERE Magazine September 2011 issue.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Share prices of listed companies in Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, or companies with a sizeable exposure to those countries, are being punished because they are taking the brunt of the sovereign debt crisis, said Dick Boer of Kempen at the annual European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) conference today.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Ved Prakash Arya leaves behind a wife and two children. Peers are already paying tribute, one contemporary describing him as "a pioneer" and "an inspiration".
3 min read · 18 January 2013
According to the investment advisory group, the number of Asian private equity real estate funds to come to market in the first half of 2011 has almost matched the whole of last year.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The real estate arm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds will purchase a full city block, comprising a convention centre, office tower and hotel, in downtown Toronto from the Canadian government.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Paris-based insurer says it has transacted more than €2bn of deals in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, it says there has been an investment shift among clients from Paris to other core markets.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Using capital from its second Africa-focused private equity real estate fund, the London-based emerging markets private equity firm has acquired a 60 percent stake in Nairobi-based development management firm Mentor.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Blackstone, Starwood duo receive backing from one of the world’s richest men to launch Crosstree Real Estate Partners in a bid to invest in up to £1bn of property in the UK and possibly further afield into Europe.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
An affiliate of Starwood Capital has agreed to acquire an 18-property hotel portfolio from the Philadelphia-based hospitality REIT for $155 million.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
