Fundraising

The Los Angeles-based firm has raised its second vehicle targeting Latin America with a primary focus on residential projects in Mexico, Brazil and Chile.

The Denver-based private equity real estate firm will partner with Davidson Hotel Company to acquire and complete a $23m overhaul of the 264-room Hyatt Regency, which sits on an island in Newport Harbor.

The value-added fund expects to raise between $650m and $750m in equity and command more than $2 billion in buying power.

GE’s real estate investment arm has acquired a diversified portfolio from the Dallas-based real estate investment firm’s third private equity vehicle. In a separate deal, GE has agreed to sell the retail portion to Kimco Realty for $920m.

Capmark has partnered with San Antonio-based Brass Real Estate Funds to acquire 1.1 million square feet of office space for an estimated $85m.

The Nordic private equity firm has thus far raised €69m for CapMan RE II, a real estate vehicle focused on development in Finland.

Colesville Partners, an opportunistic vehicle sponsored by Sunburst Hospitality, will have $1bn in buying power.

Japanese property company DaVinci has acquired 40,000 square meters of office space in central Tokyo from Hong Kong businessman Richard Li. It is considered by some to be Asia’s largest single-asset real estate transaction.

The Pennsylvania-based real estate investment firm has already committed approximately a third of its new vehicle and expanded beyond the mid-Atlantic region with its first buy in Chicago.

The private equity arm of Standard Chartered has invested $33 million in an auto component market based in India.