JER Partners is said to be in exclusive talks to transfer staff and asset management functions of JER’s Europe funds business to LaSalle in order to provide a more ‘stable platform’ for investors.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The firm has formed of a value-added UK fund that invests in Central London offices. In addition, its European core real estate fund has acquired a logistics property in Finland.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Why the sale of a stake in a £1.4bn loan book by Royal Bank of Scotland ended up as one for a debt fund, not an opportunistic real estate vehicle.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Hamburg-based ECE group has raised most of the equity for its first ever fund with a final close expected this summer. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation is understood to be among investors in the prime shopping centre vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Shanghai and Switzerland-based firm wants to access the 'China success story' by launching a fund focussed on investments in one of its major cites, Shanghai.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Olivier de Poulpiquet, co-CEO and co-CIO of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, is to relocate to Singapore as the firm plans to switch from net sellers of real estate in the region to become net buyers.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The UK REIT is poised to make an uncharacteristically opportunistic foray by buying a portfolio of properties occupied by Virgin Active health clubs.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Canadian pension fund manager known as AIMCo, which looks after the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, wants to increase returns partly by investing outside its home territory, including the US and Europe.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate investment management firm has completed its purchase of ING Group’s global real estate securities business, ING Clarion Real Estate Securities. The deal forms part of its wider $940m acquisition of ING’s Real Estate Investment Management operations in Europe and Asia.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The mandate, which entails providing due diligence, acquisition, and brokerage services mainly on Asian and European properties for the newly restructured Global Growth Trust and Global Income Trust, gives the private equity real estate firm a fresh capital source to execute deals.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
