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Post-EOP, Blackstone goes on selling spreeShorenstein Properties is the latest firm to purchase a piece of the Equity Office Properties portfolio as The Blackstone Group begins to divest the real estate it acquired in the largest private equity deal ever.
- Beacon shines light on Paris office market with purchase of Axa Tower
Beacon Capital Partners, the Boston-based real estate investment firm, has agreed to co-develop and then buy the Axa Tower in the Parisian office district of La Defense.
- Somerset takes Park Avenue tower for $509m
The private equity firm has acquired an office building on New York City’s ritzy Park Avenue for a record breaking per-square-foot purchase price.
- Behringer Harvard to acquire four-building office portfolio in Chicago
Following its foray into the DC-area residential market last month, Dallas-based Behringer Harvard has just snapped up four office buildings in Chicago’s business district.
- Broadway cedes control of San Francisco office
The troubled private equity real estate firm has lost control of 120 Howard Street to mezzanine note holder, Prudential Real Estate Investors. PREI financed $23.2m in mezzanine loans at the time of the deal in May 2007.
- 2008 GLOBAL PERE AWARDS - North American awards
More than 10,000 votes were cast for the third annual PERE Awards and here – over the next dozen pages – we present the winners and runners-up of the North American awards. By Robin Marriott, Jonathan Brasse and Zoe Hughes. PERE March 2009
- Blackstone, Morgan Stanley top PERE 30
The New York-based private equity real estate firms are once again the two largest private equity real estate firms in the world. The top 30 firms raised more than $211 billion in value-added, opportunistic capital over the past five years.
- Broadway nets loss on $180m sale to Spitzer
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 plagued by scandal, has reemerged as a real estate investor, buying 1615 L Street in Washington, DC through the use of $42m in cash.
- Charter Hall raises A$200m for core-plus Australia fund
The listed Australian property fund manager says it has doubled the A$100m of equity commitments it secured by August this year by gaining investment from domestic and international investors.
- Joint venture to recap Chicago office tower
Equity Group Investments and Transwestern Investment Company have formed a joint venture with Behringer Harvard to recapitalise 200 S. Wacker Drive in Chicago. Behringer Harvard will retain a 10 percent ownership stake in the property.