Over the past year, investors have fled real estate investment trusts, lumping them in with fears about the subprime meltdown and the housing market. Now REITs are on the rise again, but they are still trading at discounts. Could this be the perfect time for some public-to-private buyouts? By Dave Keating
7 min read · 22 January 2013
Investors are predicting forced sales in Germany, possibly starting this year, from highly-indebted purchasers. At the same time, they hope to capture some of the muchvaunted rental growth in the country's main markets. By Robin Marriott
9 min read · 22 January 2013
Northwood Investors 2008-06-01 Staff Writer <strong>Firm:</strong>Northwood Investors<strong>Headquarters:</strong>Greenwich, Connecticut<strong>Founded:</strong>2006<strong>Key team members:</strong>John Kukral, founder; Erwin Aulis, chiefoperating officer<
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Dune Real Estate Partners 2008-06-01 Staff Writer <strong>Firm:</strong>Dune Real Estate Partners<strong>Headquarters:</strong>New York<strong>Founded:</strong>2006 (Dune Capital Management, 2004)<strong>Founders:</strong>Dan Neidich, Steven Mnuchin and Chip Se
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Having grown GE Real Estate into one of the largest property investors in the world, Michael Pralle is now ready for what he calls a more entrepreneurial endeavor – growing JER Partners into one of the largest property investors in the world. Pralle says he will do this by putting JER teams on the ground in emerging markets and by building an in-house capital-raising ‘machine.’ By Zoe Hughes
4 min read · 22 January 2013
The Hong Kong firm has held an initial closing on a $100 million Cambodia fund.
4 min read · 22 January 2013
Lie, the former Asia CEO for ING Real Estate, will head up Redevco's new office in Hong Kong.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Rather than being the mild contributor to growth the government had hoped, housing in Japan has become one of the nation's biggest liabilities, with a glut of unsold homes building up. By Dave Keating
6 min read · 22 January 2013
An offer by the US private equity firm to inject equity into homebuilder, Barratt Developments, has been spurned, according to reports.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Former Kirkland and Ellis partner Raymond McKeeve speaks to PERE about joining the property investment firm of entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
