Merrill Lynch’s global real estate principle investments division has halted plans to offload its Asian real estate investment management business. The platform may be placed on the market again late second quarter 2010.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Transactions may be down but there is some encouragement with direct commercial real estate deal volumes picking up in each of the last three quarters.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Swiss alternative asset management firm is making structural changes to its business, to come into force on 1 January, 2010. As part of this process, its private real estate business will be separated from its private capital department, reporting directly to the firm’s executive board.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The mega-firm is entering the amusement park sector, following several other firms that have acquired parks this year. But the sector has in some cases been a roller coaster for private equity returns.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Europe and Asia-focused MGPA is buying a company with more than 2,600 acres of land on behalf of its latest European fund, raised in 2008.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Limited partners urged to start serious discussions with GPs about portfolio and asset valuations, as institutional investors attempt to choose tomorrow’s winners.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Dutch real estate investment manager turns to inside talent to replace Nick Cooper as head of ING Real Estate Select
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Swiss alternatives manager has more than doubled the size of its previous global secondaries fund, closed in 2006.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The London-based company Internos Real Investors has taken on the European property fund management arm of Australian REIT, The GPT Group.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The plan by ANREV to adopt the working guidelines and practices of its older European counterpart, INREV, is laudable and deserves support, but the real work is just beginning. ANREV’s first step: a tricky game of chicken and egg.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
