The Paris-based property manager AEW Europe has made its fifth purchase for its European Property Investors Special Opportunities fund, which raised €800m last year.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Netherlands-based ING Real Estate, one of the largest property managers in the world, has put plans on hold indefinitely for a global real estate opportunity platform as the firm concentrates on asset management instead.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Morgan Stanley VP Insa von Jürgensonn has joined the fund management arm of global property services firm Jones Lang LaSalle as fund manager for the firm’s German funds also overseeing the firm’s Northern European assets.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The London-based start-up, Internos Real Investors, has hired Richard Peskin, the recently-retired chairman of quoted property company Great Portland Estate. He joins the firm as a capital partner.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The European private equity real estate firm Orion Capital Managers has recruited Roberto Roca as investment director to run its Iberia business.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association is reportedly considering withdrawing a proposed $75m commitment to Morgan Stanley's latest global property fund, amid concerns over leverage and personnel changes. Contra is the second US pension to pull back on provisional commitments to MSREF VII this year.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Peter Moon will retire next year from the University Superannuation Scheme, one of the UK's main cornerstone limited partners in private equity, infrastructure and real estate funds.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The New York-based private equity real estate firm is in negotiations with Barclays Capital over loans backed by the office building, 475 Fifth Avenue. Westbrook and Moinian, its operating partner, had put up $18m in equity for the $160m deal.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
AEW Europe follows its investment in a Dartford logistics unit last year with another UK logistics asset, this time in the Midlands region.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Dolphin Capital Investors, the largest real estate company on London's Alternative Investment Market and the biggest South-East Europe residential resort player, is offering shareholders the chance to buy assets in the company's portfolio as part of a financial strengthening.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
