Thus far, the majority of the opportunity funds have been conservative in their approach to the UK. Slowly yet surely, they are moving in.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Morristown, New Jersey-based private equity real estate firm has acquired more than 240,000 square feet of industrial and office buildings in its home state through the firm's latest $350m fund, Hampshire Partners Fund VII.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Roughly two years after acquiring Jil Sander from Prada, the European retail-focused private equity shop has exited to Italy’s GIBO, a subsidiary of Tokyo-listed Onward Holdings. While owned by Change Capital, Jil Sander's EBITDA grew from negative €13m to €6m.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The German property company is selling the caverns to a newly-created fund to be managed internally.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Middle Eastern sovereign wealth investors have entered British football with The Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment, headed by ‘the Donald Trump of Abu Dhabi’, agreeing to buy Manchester City FC.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Zoning is changing in the US. Urban sprawl is making way for smarter, more dense, communities where people live where they work and play. But as private equity real estate firms understand only too well, it's an extremely slow process. By Zoe Hughes
10 min read · 22 January 2013
As the vast Brazilian real estate market becomes saturated with GPs both large and small, prime properties are being gobbled up at a frenzied pace. As with other BRIC markets, development is now the name of the game. By Eva Poon
10 min read · 22 January 2013
Goldman Sachs' Whitehall platform has become among the most dominant players in global property investment, raising billions and executing deals in an inimitable Goldman fashion. The firm is so opaque that even its own PPMs contain no fund-level performance data. Investors who sign on as limited partners gain access to the immense Whitehall footprint, but pay what many view to be a dizzying array of fees for the privilege. PERE goes inside an enviable franchise that its rivals have at times called ‘The Evil Empire.’ By Robin Marriott and Zoe Hughes
10 min read · 22 January 2013
Kim Ho-Shik, the ousted former president of South Korea's $230bn National Pension Service, has joined the advisory board of the Singapore-based real estate investment firm.
4 min read · 22 January 2013
Ian Gleeson, who oversaw Morley's international multi-manager service, has joined CBRE Investors to help grow the firm's platform.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
