Deals

The AIM has become the market of choice for real estate companies focused on Central and Eastern Europe. Can they all stay afloat? By Robin Marriott

The Texas-based private equity firm has bought the previously unaffiliated Lone Star Steakhouse chain for $600m.

The Chicago-based real estate firm has added a point man in its Los Angeles office to focus on acquisitions in the western US.

Denver-based KSL Capital, a former KKR affiliate, has raised more than $1 bn for its first standalone real estate fund.

As legal and economic reforms transform Mexico's property market, that giant sucking sound you hear may be real estate investors crossing the border. By Paul Fruchbom

THE 4 FOOD GROUPS 2006-09-01 Staff Writer <strong>RESIDENTIAL<br /> Ivana Trump's Beirut condos on hold</strong><br /> Ivana Trump, ex-wife of New York real estate developer and television personality Donald Trump, announced plans for a new luxury condominium development in Beirut s

Castles in the sky 2006-09-01 Staff Writer Viewers of Sky television are probably more interested in watching Premiership football matches than anything else, but increasingly the company has been branching out.<br /> <br /> The pay-TV giant , which is one-third owned by Rupert Murdoch's News C

The horror, the horror 2006-09-01 Staff Writer The Overlook Hotel, the isolated Colorado retreat which formed the backdrop for Jack Nicholson and his family in the 1980 film version of <italic>The Shining</italic>, probably would have made a decent investment for a private equity real estate firm

The Los Angeles-based private investment group has purchased the Four Seasons Resort & Club Dallas at Las Colinas near Dallas, Texas and plans to renovate the hotel and golf courses.

Paul Taylor, who split from Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz’s property empire earlier this year to pursue his own investment firm, has beaten 3i and Terra Firma to land Four Seasons.