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Stop worrying and learn to love the hotelA real estate asset you need to re-lease every day sounds too risky for many institutional investors – but they are beginning to check in.
Ignore CFIUS at your perilThe US government’s influence over deals relating to national security is not something to ignore when transacting with international counterparties.
Inside Goldman's $10bn RE equity businessIn serving the bank’s capital, Goldman Sachs Merchant Bank Division’s Real Estate Group has found its equity investing business is without peer.
Zell: non-traded REITs lack alignmentThe property doyen, who built several of the biggest publicly-traded REITs, told NYU’s real estate conference, ‘you don’t have billionaires running these [non-traded] funds and they don’t own any part of it themselves.’
AccorInvest: Major investors check into €4.4bn dealSaudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund teams up with a variety of institutional investors to invest in what has been billed as ‘the last major opportunity to buy into a hospitality carve-out.’
MIPIM 2018: winners and losers in global capital flowsEurope and Asia continued to knit tighter relationships, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s annual report.
Blackstone inks first real estate GP deal with Rockpoint stakeThe leadership team will remain in place as the smaller firm taps into Blackstone’s technology platforms and investor relationships.
MIPIM 2018: brokers point to logistics boomResearch from two of the world’s biggest property services firms released at the week-long property jamboree in the south of France shows industrial real estate has overtaken offices as European investors’ preferred property type.
Oklahoma Police pension head fired after embezzlement accusationsThe $2.5bn pension system’s executive director allegedly arranged ‘for impromptu meetings with investment firms to justify travel expenses.'