18 May 2012 10:08 GMT Just days after the Hong Kong firm announced the departure of founder and chief executive officer Rong Ren, its head of capital raising and business development, George Agethen, has handed in his notice. He is one of approximately 10 others to leave. More >>
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17 May 2012 17:12 GMT A portfolio of 50 percent stakes in three of Centro Retail Australia’s marquee shopping centres has been sold to Stan Perron, the Perth-based billionaire, ahead of investors such as TIAA-CREF, CPPIB and Australian fund manager QIC, in deal valued at A$690.4 million. More >>
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17 May 2012 16:48 GMT The Montreal-based real estate subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec will put up 75 percent of the capital for the $400 million project. The investment is expected to close by the end of the month, with construction set to begin before year-end. More >>
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17 May 2012 18:04 GMT In its second such partnership this year, the New York-based real estate investor and fund manager is teaming with a South Florida developer to build apartment communities on behalf of its latest opportunity fund. More >>
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17 May 2012 17:55 GMT The European association for investors in unlisted real estate vehicles wants to improve due diligence and the decision-making process on fund of funds investments. More >>
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16 May 2012 18:39 GMT The core investment vehicle, called TechCore, will be managed by the Menlo Park, California-based private equity real estate firm and will invest in technology-focused properties in the US. More >>
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16 May 2012 17:10 GMT Dan Vene, a former partner at placement agent Eaton Partners, has joined the New York-based investment manager to lead capital-raising efforts and client relations for the firm’s real estate opportunity funds. More >>
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16 May 2012 16:24 GMT The Morristown, New Jersey-based real estate firm has successfully refinanced with Morgan Stanley the debt on a portfolio of offices it acquired in northern Virginia and suburban Maryland. More >>
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16 May 2012 13:41 GMT The New York-based private equity firm said today it had agreed to buy the assets of stricken Speymill Deutsche Immobilien from receivers a month after reports first surfaced of the investment. More >>
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15 May 2012 18:55 GMT The Hong Kong-based private equity real estate firm’s decision to expand its investment horizons to include private equity and infrastructure is understood to have contributed to founder and chief executive officer Rong Ren’s decision to resign. More >>
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15 May 2012 11:19 GMT John McCarthy, Starwood Capital Group’s global head of asset management, who held a similar role for the real estate division of collapsed Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers, is expected to join ADIA’s Real Estate Department next month. More >>
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14 May 2012 17:26 GMT The London-based financial advisory business is expected to join a growing contingent of players looking to capitalise on the UK’s debt funding void. More >>
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14 May 2012 17:25 GMT The Greenwich, Connecticut real estate investment firm, in a joint venture with Gaia Real Estate, has purchased a 32-property multifamily portfolio in the US. The deal forms part of its acquisition and recapitalisation of the properties’ bankrupt owner, PJ Finance Company. More >>
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14 May 2012 10:04 GMT Equity from a separate account with the Public Officials Benefit Association of Korea, won via last year’s takeover of ING REIM, has been put to work in the purchase of Thames Court in the City of London. More >>
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11 May 2012 15:10 GMT The two firms have mutually agreed to end exclusive negotiations on buying three parts of Deutsche Bank Asset Management's business put up for sale and focus solely on a possible sale of the bank’s global alternative asset management business, which includes real estate and infrastructure. More >>
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