Almost two-thirds of foreign real estate investors have billed the US as the top global market in which to invest, the highest level since 2000 and garnering six times more votes than second-placed China.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Investors will ‘sacrifice’ returns and diversification if they overlook China, Brazil and India. However, targeting the three countries’ real estate markets demands a longer-term investment horizon and plenty of due diligence.
4 min read · 18 January 2013
Hines has lost control of the $724m National Office Partners account it ran for CalPERS, with LA-based CommonWealth Partners picking up the mandate. In December, LaSalle lost the $2bn CalEast industrial portfolio to GI, RREEF.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Latin America’s largest economy has reduced taxes for foreign investments in private equity funds, according to reports.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Private equity investment in Latin America’s largest economy increased dramatically in 2010, with no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
The private funds arm of the industrial REIT has teamed up with an endowment to invest R$720m in Brazilian logistics properties
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Investors will ‘sacrifice’ returns and diversification if they overlook China, Brazil and India. However, targeting the three countries’ real estate markets demands a longer-term investment horizon and plenty of due diligence.
4 min read · 24 January 2013
The firm will target slightly more for the fourth private equity fund than the $700m it raised for Fund III. Earlier this year, Blackstone bought a 40% stake in Patria for $200m.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The Inter-American Development Bank approved the loan as a way to ‘foster more participation’ in the fund. Macquarie also released details of the fund’s recent purchase of Decarred, a company that maintains 10 stretches of highway in the US-border state of Durango.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
The fund is the first entirely debt-focused investment vehicle raised in Mexico using a new type of listed security called a certificado burasatile. The lender, Navix, plans to co-invest $100m of its money with the certificados busatiles on a variety of projects in the Mexican energy sector.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
