According to Frogmore director Stuart Jenkin, many LPs are keen not to see their capital competing with sovereign wealth funds and the like for core properties in London where yields have been driven downwards to levels that would not 'outperform the market'.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Korea’s penchant for core offices in London continues as the Public Officials Benefit Association selects ING Real Estate Investment Management for an investment programme.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Fresh after participating in a panel session at last week's PERE Forum: Europe 2011, Van Stults, managing director of Orion Capital Managers, told PERE how firms with both real estate and financial expertise might unlock investment opportunities in Spain. Ireland, on the other hand, is a more 'difficult' market to navigate all together.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Chad Pike, senior managing director and co-head of real estate at The Blackstone Group, said a ‘long, steady flow of deals was inevitable’, as he revealed the firm was about to close on a deal in Germany that went into bankruptcy in 2008.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
PERE presents 10 takeaways from this week’s PERE Forum: Europe conference.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Ralph Rosenberg, the recently appointed global head of real estate at New York-based private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, told delegates on the first day of this year’s PERE Forum: Europe, that the firm had identified four investments in the region it was considering pursuing.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Irish bank has hired HFF to sell a portfolio of $1.5 billion in performing US commercial real estate loans. The sale, which also includes the portfolio’s management team, is the latest effort to shore up the bank’s balance sheet.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles has appointed Jeff Rupp and and is to open an office in Brussels as it begins a greater lobby effort on regulatory issues.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The investment manager is looking to raise $50 million to invest in New York and New Jersey.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York secondaries firm has tapped Todd Silverman to run its equity capital markets business.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
