A panel of property valuation experts this week bemoaned the dislocation in the real estate market and the difficulties of finding fair value where willing sellers are few and far in between.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Hong Kong-based boutique SC Lowy has been established by the former heads of Deutsche Bank's Asian Distressed Products Group. Targeted opportunities to include real estate.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Starwood has teamed up with TPG and other investors to buy a $4.5bn portfolio of loans and real estate from failed Chicago-based Corus Bank.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
PERE's European editor Robin Marriott denotes the mood at European fund management firm, Europa Capital, after its purchase of a portfolio of banks in Spain.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
In his second update, PERE's European editor Robin Marriott recounts a chance meeting with two of the UK's best known real estate investors.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
According to reports in the local media, the Houston-based developer and fund manager is aiming to start investing through the vehicle in the next six to nine months.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Jeff Giller is leaving the San Francisco-based secondaries firm after four years. Josh Cleveland and Brendan MacDonald have already left. The departure triggers a key man clause in Liquid’s $570m LRP Fund IV.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Despite Prudential Real Estate Investors' global heft, chief executive officer Allen Smith believes the firm is as nimble, and flexible, as any boutique operation. By Zoe Hughes
10 min read · 21 January 2013
The real estate investment firm has paid $167.5m for a 49.9% interest in two Macerich malls in New Jersey and Arizona. GI Partners closed a similar deal last month, with plans to target other REITs in need of recapitalisation.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Adam Applegarth, who was chief executive of Northern Rock when it was saved by the UK government last year, is reportedly taking up an advisory role at Apollo Management.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
