Canada has the most transparent commercial real estate market in the world but Dubai, Romania, Ukraine and Russia show the biggest improvement in transparency levels over the past two years, according to a report from Jones Lang LaSalle.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Dubai investor has partnered with the Spain-based private equity firm to acquire a 50 percent stake in three internationally branded five star hotels in Thailand.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The heir to the British throne has appointed Credit Suisse to raise capital from Middle East investors for his new property fund, Tellesma. The fund follows on from Prince Charles' 400-acre sustainable development project, Poundbury.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
One year after Knight Frank’s Rutley Capital Partners launched a £101m East Africa fund, another UK-based firm, Integreated Property Investments, is planning a property fund for the region.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The pair are expanding their joint operation in the country with a scheme that could deliver two million square feet of space when all the phases are developed.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The UK mid-market private equity firm, Phoenix Equity Partners, is banking on an aggressive roll out of a Thai restaurant chain to take the group from three to 30 sites. Phoenix says now is a good time to be buying properties.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Swedish firm East Capital has bought out joint venture partner Arco Vara’s 50 percent interest in AVEC Asset Management, which manages AVEC Baltic Property Fund and Arco Baltic Real Estate Portfolio with assets of €220m.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Dallas-based business is in the middle of building a pan-European portfolio of hotels for a fund that has now deployed 50 percent of its capital.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The DLJ spin-out has sold its 100 percent holding in Catamount Energy after purchasing the company for $76m in 2005. Catamount operates a 300-megawatt wind farm in Texas and holds 1,750-megawatts in developmental interests in the UK and US.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Following the appointments of new country managers in Hungary and the Czech Republic, the real estate investment firm has acquired a retail complex in Pilsen, Czech Republic through its Central Europe-focused property fund.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
