More than half of the UK’s institutional pension funds are planning to increase their commercial property investment allocation despite the dramatic falls in values since 2007, according to research published this week.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
CB Richard Ellis estimates the UK market is at least £150bn short of the equity necessary to return to equilibrium.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
UK property brokers Simon Holley and Simon Blake are to set up their own opportunity fund platform called Altyon Partners.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Levine Leichtman, HM Capital, Access Capital and Falconhead Capital will pay a total of $4.5m to settle with the New York attorney general’s office.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Swiss-based firm has successfully closed on €275m for a global real estate fund. The firm aims to buy in both mature and emerging markets and has already bought eight investments in China for the vehicle.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
There is plenty of demand for Asian secondaries – but where are the vendors?
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The Ivy League endowment's first-ever overall investment loss has been partly attributed to ‘aggressive commitments to illiquid asset classes’. Yale had similar results.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The struggling insurance giant has officially ended five decades of private equity investing, selling $89bn of assets for $500m. The deal doesn't include its private equity real estate funds, which are 'positioned' for a sale.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The latest research by INREV, the European Association for investors in non-listed real estate funds, has revealed that almost 90% of investors in non-listed vehicles are concerned that funds they have invested in are likely to breach loan covenants.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The mega-firm has added on a 600,000-hectare cattle ranch in North Queensland to its Consolidated Pastoral platform in an all-equity deal worth A$48m.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
