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PAG plots $1 billion core fund for AsiaThe firm, which merged with Japan’s Secured Capital in 2011, is to leverage the Tokyo-based firm’s core real estate team for deals demonstrating long-term, sustainable income streams across nine gateway cities in Asia.
- MIPIM 2014: Risk appetite is increasing
Fundraising activity and deals are ‘skewing away’ from core and core-plus to higher-returning strategies, attendees of the PERE panel heard.
- Blackstone rolls out core RE business
The New York-based private equity and real estate giant already has invested $1 billion in the new strategy and is said to be readying a dedicated fund for later this year.
- PERE AWARDS: Go with who they know
The results of the 2013 Global PERE Awards are in, and larger, better-known players once again dominated
- Levinson leaves Park Hill to lead Singapore’s CIT
The former Blackstone executive has taken the helm at the Singapore industrial REIT taking over from Chris Calvert.
- Canada’s Second City launches Fund II
The Vancouver-based private equity firm is targeting $200 million for its second US-focused opportunistic real estate fund.
- Purse to leave Park Hill
The co-founder of the New York-based real estate placement firm will be departing at the end of March – and likely joining a fund manager.
- UK & European buys €50m BoAML fund interests
A secondary trade in Europe is made public as a London-based firm reveals it has boosted its exposure to European property by taking over what is believed to be Bank of America Merrill Lynch's LP position in the Bosphorous fund.
- COMMENT: The French connection
In spite of the country’s dire growth prospects, opportunity funds are moving into France.
- Blackstone to buy GE warehouse portfolio
The New York-based private equity giant has agreed to purchase a 9.6 million-square-foot portfolio of industrial assets from GE Capital on behalf of IndCor Properties.