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At an invitation-only event in Monaco, the co-founder of KKR, which is making a big push into real estate, said that low interest rates and a lack of capital offered 'enormous' opportunities for private equity. More >>
Poor investments, including a big stake in Hypo Real Estate, have played havoc with JC Flowers’ $7 billion Fund II. More >>
A Luxembourg-domiciled company sponsored by Aerium and a Kuwaiti sovereign wealth fund has launched a debt fund to provide bridging loans for residential property transactions in high-end London locations. More >>
The Dallas-based investment arm of the Trammell Crow Company has kicked off fundraising for its latest US value-added fund, seeking all asset classes of real estate. More >>
Ronald Pressman, the former chief executive of GE Capital Real Estate has joined the New York-based retirement fund to head up its operational efforts. More >>
The Florida-based real estate investment firm has gotten some traction on its second real estate fund, which will focus on opportunistic investments in the Southeast. More >>
The estate of Icelandic bank Kaupthing, which crashed in 2008, has awarded a mandate to Internos Real Investors to manage €90m of real estate located in France. More >>
The Washington, DC-based alternative asset manager has appointed 11 real estate professionals in North America and Europe to senior roles. More >>
In addition to naming a successor for its soon-to-be-retiring COO, the Parsippany, New Jersey-based real estate investment management firm has named heads for its global client services team and US business. More >>
The Swiss-based private markets investment firm says discounts to net asset values improved from the buyer’s perspective for secondary real estate portfolios towards the end of last year. More >>
How pay rules should apply to private fund managers and whether it’s smart to keep dealmakers separate from a risk oversight team are among the questions now being considered by the UK’s Financial Services Authority. More >>
The former fund manager of GSREA II, a fund that struggled greatly in the financial downturn after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, has changed its name to Talmage and expanded its business model. More >>
The estate of the former Wall Street banking giant has closed on the purchase of a $1.33 billion stake in the Denver-based REIT from co-owners Bank of America and Barclays, effectively blocking out rival Equity Residential. More >>
The Chicago-based real estate investment management firm has appointed Jon Zehner, formerly a senior director at AREA Property Partners, to a new role to help expand the global franchise. More >>
The New York-based developer’s Real Estate Recovery Fund has found itself oversubscribed. In addition, the vehicle already has invested $200 million in distressed assets and loans for failed development deals. More >>
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A number of next-generation, European-focused opportunistic real estate funds are going to be competing for a finite pool of institutional capital this year. ... More>>
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Realities of a horrendous market
09 Jan 2012   John Cahill, partner at Paul Hastings, talks to PERE about the recent spate of fund managers competing aggressively to offer investors participating in a first closing fee breaks. ... More>>

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