PERE presents 10 takeaways from this week’s PERE Forum: Europe conference.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate fund manager has held a final closing on a $100 million Brazil sidecar to its Latin America fund, bringing its combined regional commitments to $554 million.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Irish bank has hired HFF to sell a portfolio of $1.5 billion in performing US commercial real estate loans. The sale, which also includes the portfolio’s management team, is the latest effort to shore up the bank’s balance sheet.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chicago-based firm specialising in student and senior housing has closed on nearly $600 million for its latest fund, almost $100 million more than its original target.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Goh Kok Huat has been appointed president of GIC Real Estate as part of a reshuffle of its executive ranks, the larger of Singapore's two sovereign wealth funds said. He replaces Seek Ngee Huat who will now chair GIC's Latin America Business.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York secondaries firm has tapped Todd Silverman to run its equity capital markets business.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors has raised two thirds of its target capital for its third global fund of funds, PERE has learned.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The industrial heavyweights said they can achieve $80m of savings per year through the merger. They added that the combined company has a 'clear growth strategy' to pursue global opportunities.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Kennedy Wilson’s acquisition of the Bank of Ireland’s property platform may have surprised some, but the firm just sees it as the next step in its evolution.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Armed with a 'premier list' of real estate fund managers, the private markets team of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, led by Steve LeBlanc, spoke about its vision for the portfolio and how it could be even tougher to get through its doors in the future.
10 min read · 18 January 2013
