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Investa Office Fund bidding war escalatesOMERS’ Oxford Properties has thrown a wrench into Blackstone’s plans to acquire the listed office landlord in Australia.
Blackstone aims to double core-plus AUMThe New York-based asset manager has set plans to increase its global core-plus AUM from $32bn to $60bn within the next two to three years.
Lehman was painful for some but made champions out of othersPERE talks to the winners and losers ten years on from property’s ‘day of reckoning’
Rethinking Real Estate sees more data, more problemsBuildings are filling up with digital devices that see, hear and remember everything. Dror Poleg, of Rethinking Real Estate, asks whether the sector is ready for a privacy scandal
Big returns are made by real estate managers that think smallWhile most commercial real estate firms will not bother with small assets valued at less than $10 million, others see buying at this scale as a niche worth exploring.
Luck, judgment and money: who made the most of the recoveryA handful of organizations found they were unencumbered by their pre-crisis dealings, able to recognize bottoming conditions and could access the capital to get investing again. They became the post-crisis winners.
JLL’s non-traded REIT launches on second wirehouse -- ExclusiveJLL Income Property Trust is the second product of its kind to sell through multiple wirehouses.
Single-family rentals see a ‘second wind’ of fundraising activityFirms like Cerberus Capital Management and Amherst are focusing on the sector as investor interest picks up on the back of Invitation Homes’ IPO success.
RE investment activity rises in H1 2018Total deployment in the asset class from publicly traded firms Blackstone, Apollo, Carlyle, Ares and Brookfield increased year-on-year, but realizations dropped at the same time, according to the firms’ latest earnings results.