In the new world of private equity real estate investing, capital will be coming from everywhere and going everywhere, from increasingly sophisticated institutional investors spread around the globe. GPs should keep this in mind as they decide how to target Asia. By Dave Keating
5 min read · 22 January 2013
Ex-AIG hotels head Keith Lindsay has joined Central Eastern European developer and asset manager Orco to run its hospitality division.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
The corporate debt and real estate specialist has acquired CIT Group’s troubled Home Lending business, Lone Star’s third mortgage-related deal since October.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The US firm has made its third sizeable acquisition of loans in Europe since November last year.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The third fund raised in Europe by The Carlyle Group is targeting parts of Eastern Europe as well as more established, core markets.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms globally raised $40bn during the first half of 2008, according to proprietary data from PERE magazine. This tally puts GPs on course to raise more than the record-breaking totals of last year. During the first six months of 2007, private equity real estate firms raised $30bn in capital.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
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 Beverly Hills-based real estate investment firm is targeting California’s residential market with its investment in two multifamily projects in the Bay Area. The firm has also picked up a portfolio of finished lots in Lancaster, California.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Starwood Land Ventures, an affiliate of the private equity real estate firm Starwood Capital Group, is set to take advantage of the credit squeeze by targeting residential land deals, developments and homebuilders in Houston.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
