The Dallas-based firm says it has acquired the Radisson Blu Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, for €155m on behalf of Invesco Real Estate’s European hotel fund.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company is buying the US embassy in London’s Mayfair. It will enable the US State Department to move into new premises.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Brazil, India and China show increasing independence, while other emerging markets are still overly reliant on factors like export markets, Chip Kaye told delegates at the PEI Emerging Markets Forum in London.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Real estate investor Marcol has teamed up with Advent International for what the firms say is Germany’s largest private equity deal this year.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
PEI Media’s sister publication, PERE magazine, recent sat down to speak with Keith O’Donnell, the global head of real estate at Taxand, to discuss the grand tax themes shaping the industry. From crackdowns on abuse of tax treaties to attacks on interest deductibility of intra-company loans and the taxation of debt investments, there is plenty to concern private fund managers.
6 min read · 21 January 2013
The Europe and Asia firm is reportedly close to acquiring a residential land company from insurer Clerical Medical.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
GI Partners’ European managing director Mark Tagliaferri on the firm’s $1.9bn fundraise and strategy
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The latest research from DTZ, the property services firm, says real estate investors continue to overlook some of the ‘riskier’ markets in favour of Western European countries.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Chicago-based firm says it has acquired 29 percent of all out-of-town retail assets sold over the last 12 months in Britain.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Quilvest, the Argentinean family office which made its money from the famous Quilmes beer brand, is taking its first steps into private equity real estate through the launch of a $250m fund of funds.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
