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Morgan Stanley nears $366m China office saleMorgan Stanley Real Estate Investing is close to agreeing the sale of The Exchange office building in Shanghai to Chinese developer SOHO China. The firm, which has invested in the city since 2003, hopes to conclude a sale by the end of the year.
- 2008 GLOBAL PERE AWARDS - North American awards
More than 10,000 votes were cast for the third annual PERE Awards and here – over the next dozen pages – we present the winners and runners-up of the North American awards. By Robin Marriott, Jonathan Brasse and Zoe Hughes. PERE March 2009
- AMERICAS NEWS: All shook up at MSREF
A departure, an administrative leave of absence and an investigation in China have brought uncertainty to the giant investment firm. PERE Magazine March 2009 issue
- Blackstone raises €3.1bn for Europe
The New York firm has sealed its status as the largest raiser of private equity for real estate by closing Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe III.
- Topping out the 30 largest firms
Blackstone and Morgan Stanley lead the latest PERE 30 ranking. That may change in the future, though.
- Blackstone, Morgan Stanley top PERE 30
The New York-based private equity real estate firms are once again the two largest private equity real estate firms in the world. The top 30 firms raised more than $211 billion in value-added, opportunistic capital over the past five years.
- Morgan Stanley loses $374m in real estate
The global financial services firm lost $319m in the first quarter of 2009 primarily due to losses on its private equity and real estate investments.
- Head of Merrill Lynch Real Estate in Asia quits
Tim Grady, the head of global commercial real estate in Asia Pacific for Merrill Lynch has quit in the latest personnel change since the bank was acquired by Bank of America last year.
- Sonny Kalsi on 'administrative leave'
Shake-up as Morgan Stanley’s New York-based global head of real estate investments is placed on ‘administrative leave’ with no date to return to his post. Owen Thomas, head of Morgan Stanley Asia, has taken over the role in the meantime, according to reports.
- Morgan Stanley hires two to build FoFs arm
Carolijn ter Haar and David Boyle will join Joseph Stecher, the chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, to develop the recently-launched FoFs business. Ter Haar was previously with Mn Services and Boyle with REMCap.