Many private equity real estate groups have money to spend, but no one wants to call the bottom of this crazy crazy market.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has picked up two industrial properties, acquired through its value-added Hampshire Partners Fund VII and its Hampshire Generational Fund.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Real estate prices are set to decline by up to 25 percent in developed markets, according to Townsend co-founder Kevin Lynch. However he said there were plenty of opportunities amid the distress, telling PERE at the ExpoReal conference in Munich that investors were increasing their allocations to the asset class.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has bought a second package of commercial real estate loans from Deutsche Bank covering the multifamily, retail and office sectors in Germany.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The recommendations come as the region finds itself with rising infrastructure investment needs and limited public capital resources to meet them. Private finance initiatives, a type of PPP financing arrangement, have so far only accounted for 1 percent of the UKs total spend on such projects.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US firm says Peru offers opportunities to develop residential, retail and office property and is one of the fastest growing real estate development markets in the world. It has hired a Lima-based former financial advisor.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Canada’s retirement system is fuelling property investment abroad despite the credit crunch, with lowly-geared pension funds looking to pick up bargains in Europe, according to a report.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
American International Group will retain core business lines while entertaining the divestiture of all remaining units. The embattled insurance company plans to sell as many assets as necessary to repay its $85bn loan from the US government.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
As the fundraising market dips, mega-firms may have all the more reason to seek permanent capital bases with a public float, writes Matt Levin.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The publicly listed fund, which almost exclusively invests in HarbourVest Partners' funds of funds, has experienced high returns on older funds formed in 1998, 1999 and 2001.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
