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  • Real estate deals decline in India
    Michelle Phillips- 28 August 2013

    Real estate deal values and volumes in India almost halved during the past financial year – even though some of the country's largest deals happened during that time.

  • Blackstone sells 30 shopping centers for $1.5bn
    James Comtois- 28 August 2013

    The New York-based private equity and real estate giant has sold the majority of a 44-property portfolio to its joint venture partner, DDR Corp.

  • Blackstone sells Boston area office park for $215m
    James Comtois- 28 August 2013

    The New York-based private equity and real estate giant is selling a 1.1 million-square-foot office park in Burlington, Massachusetts to a pair of Boston-based owner-operators.

  • LaSalle agrees to $900m second Japan logistics exit
    Michelle Phillips- 28 August 2013

    The Chicago-based real estate investment management firm has signed a deal to sell to a consortium of domestic institutional investors a portfolio of eight logistics buildings in Japan.

  • The Wall St reshuffle
    Erik Kolb- 28 August 2013

    With most legacy bank platforms now gone from the ranking and the real estate arms of Morgan Stanley and Goldman experiencing a dip in qualifying fundraising activity, this year’s PERE 50 looks significantly different from years past.

  • Carlyle launches new Asia fund
    Evelyn Lee- 28 August 2013

    The Washington, DC-based private equity real estate firm is in the market with its third pan-Asian real estate vehicle, with a first close anticipated this summer.

  • Starwood consortium agrees to €800m NAMA JV
    Robin Marriott- 28 August 2013

    Greenwich, Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group is the lead member of a consortium that has struck up a joint venture with Ireland's National Asset Management Agency to own a portfolio of loans.

  • Blackstone strikes partial €369m exit of German resi assets
    Robin Marriott- 27 August 2013

    The New York firm has packaged up assets acquired in 2011/2012 from two separate transactions and sold them to Germany’s Deutsche Wohnen, at the same time taking a stake in the listed company.

  • APREA 2013: Cautious confidence in Asia growing
    Michelle Phillips- 27 August 2013

    Foreign institutional investors are beginning to return to Asian real estate with renewed interest, but are more cautious of taking inordinate risks, delegates heard at the APREA Property Leaders Forum heard today.

  • Phoenix hauls $400m for fifth Asia fund
    Jonathan Brasse- 27 August 2013

    The Hong Kong firm is expected to maintain a Greater China focus for its Phoenix Asia Real Estate Investments V fund with many of its investments coming from Hong Kong and Taiwan.