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Friday Letter The changing face of PERE 30Wall Street’s retreat from the world of private equity real estate is manifest in this year’s PERE 30 ranking http://admin.perenews.com/Article.aspx?aID=0&article=60910The ranking also demonstrates how firms closer to the private equity world are beginning to fill the void.
- Friday Letter The real deal
Brookfield's success with its Real Estate Turnaround Consortium has given the Toronto-based firm the confidence to target $4 billion for its new global opportunity fund.
- Friday Letter Takeaways from the Tower
PERE presents 10 takeaways from this week’s PERE Forum: Europe conference.
- Friday Letter Handle with care
Blackstone’s barracking over its investment into Southern Cross demonstrates that firms will have to be careful in their future real estate dealings.
- Friday Letter The wrong type of capital
Why the sale of a stake in a £1.4bn loan book by Royal Bank of Scotland ended up as one for a debt fund, not an opportunistic real estate vehicle.
- Friday Letter Everything must go
Anglo Irish Bank wants to offload its roughly $10 billion portfolio of US property loans in one fell swoop. Given private equity real estate’s finest are arranging themselves into bidding consortiums, the omens look good that its wish will be granted.
- Friday Letter Market timing
Despite the poor stock performance of its private equity rivals, the time may be ripe for Carlyle to go public.
- Friday Letter Once bitten
A conversation with a German private equity real estate fund manager at the EXPO Real conference in Munich this week threw the spotlight on a deep-rooted reluctance by German lenders to allow large, discounted loan book sales to US private equity houses like in the mid-naughties.
- Friday Letter Rock the vote
Polls open today for the 2011 Global PERE Awards. Now is the time for you, our loyal readers, to determine which firms and individuals stood out from the crowd this past year.
- Friday Letter The law of probabilities
Some improbable events took place in 2011, so here in our final newsletter of the year, we take a completely unscientific approach to weighing up the probability of certain other significant developments happening in 2012.