Beacon Capital Partners

MetLife and Beacon Capital Partners sold the 30-floor building to the real estate arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and its US partner.

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is teaming up with an investor group led by Beacon Capital Partners to acquire three complexes in the Washington, DC area.

The Boston-based private equity real estate firm was marketing the vehicle for more than two years.

The San Francisco-based real estate investment firm has entered into a contract with Beacon Capital Partners to purchase the 1.1 million-square-foot Aon Center office building.

Thinking ahead is essential to having a successful examination, according to executives from Equity International, Beacon Capital Partners and Rockbridge.

Beacon Capital Partners has sold an 80 percent stake in a Washington DC office property to Edge Fund Advisors and HSBC Alternative Investments. The transaction marks the second major office investment made by Edge and HSBC in the past six months.

The Boston firm has secured an agreement from German bank, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, to renew and extend a €600m acquisition and development facility of the ‘Tour First’ tower in La Defense near Paris.

The Boston-based firm has held a final close on its latest vehicle, which was originally targeting $6bn.

The California pension with nearly $370bn in assets is building allocations to industrial and multifamily and curtailing office exposure to match policy targets.

September has arrived and so has PERE’s latest can’t-miss cover story: a conversation with Starwood Capital Group co-founder Barry Sternlicht and his anointed successor atop the firm, president Jonathan Pollack. Catch up on the details below. Elsewhere in private real estate, GLP gets a big investment from Abu Dhabi’s largest sovereign wealth fund; PERE examines the role of power in the real estate-infrastructure convergence; NBIM jumps back into Manhattan’s office market and more in this week’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Owners of office buildings where the flexible space provider is a major tenant are in a predicament, whether or not the business survives.

The tower's tenants include law firm Parker Stansbury, investment bank Morgan Stanley and fitness company Equinox.

Stuart Sziklas will join the firm as head of US custom accounts on September 3, and will lead the portfolio managers overseeing $10 billion across the firm’s separately managed accounts.

Boston’s Exchange Place has maintained its role as part of the city’s fabric despite its multiple institutional ownerships.

Following e-Shang Redwood’s appointment of a former Japanese government official as an advisor, Arshiya Khullar explores the art of forming an effective advisory board in the private real estate industry

The fifth in our six-part countdown of PERE's Global Investor 50, ranking the private real estate investment world’s top names.