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MSREF's new missionMorgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has just closed its latest opportunity fund on $4.7bn. In closing the largest private equity real estate fund post-Lehman, MSREI is refocusing attention on its future, rather than the recent past. MSREI CEO Owen Thomas and CIO Jay Mantz talk about the challenges of the past 18 months – and how the New York-based platform is investing its capital once again.
- Calm before the storm
The 2010 PERE 30 ranking produced little by the way of significant movement from last year’s list with large capital closings few and far between. But next year’s table stands to provide a different picture entirely. By Jonathan Brasse.
- Liquid focusing ‘more on recapitalisations than ever’
The San-Francisco-based real estate investor says it’s looking to take advantage of recapitalisation opportunities given the problems in the current debt market.
- MSREF completes second biggest Shanghai sale of 2010
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has sold a serviced apartment scheme in Pudong for $177 million in a deal described by the South China Morning Post as the second largest in Shanghai in 2010.
- Morgan Stanley wins debt extension on $3bn Japan hotels portfolio
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, the private equity real estate fund management division of Morgan Stanley, has won an extension from its lenders on a portfolio of hotel investments bought from All Nippon Airways.
- PERE Forum: US ‘best performer’ says MSREI’s Mantz
Jay Mantz, president and chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, told the PERE Forum: Europe that he expected the US to offer the best out-performance opportunities while Europe offers little by way of growth.
- ING REIM sale process begins
The sale of ING Real Estate Investment Management is to commence in the next two to three weeks after Morgan Stanley was appointed to market the €64.4bn business. Private equity firms KKR and TPG are reportedly considering bids.
- MSREF VI faces $5.4 billion loss
The one-time world’s largest private equity real estate investment fund, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VI International, is on course to lose almost two-thirds of its equity.
- Morgan Stanley rehires de Poulpiquet
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has hired Olivier de Poulpiquet as head of its European business, seven years after he left the investment bank for Italy’s Pirelli Real Estate
- Morgan Stanley ‘may’ hand back $2.4 billion Japanese hotel chain
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Morgan Stanley ‘may’ hand over the keys to a chain of 13 Japanese hotels acquired in 2007 from All Nippon Airways after the lenders behind the deal signalled they want the bank to pump in more equity