Investors

The Tokyo-based real estate brokerage has launched a new business with view to raising private equity real estate funds.

The Lionbrook fund and the Income Fund have been merged to form a new fund with gross assets valued at £530 million.

The Chicago-based pension plan expects to make its first commitments to non-US funds this year, allocating $150 million for European and Asian real estate investments.

The Investor Intention surveys published by INREV, ANREV and PREA this week celebrated increased allocations to private real estate across the board, but the numbers were worth a closer reading.

US and European pension funds were the most active sellers as secondary private equity real estate secondary deals rocket from $2.6bn in 2012 to $3.7bn last year  

The US insurance giant is furthering its relationship with Chinese conglomerate Fosun with a mixed-use development joint venture.

 The European real estate fund manager announced today it has a €1 billion kitty for making investments in Europe during 2014.  

The Dallas-based private equity firm has promoted André Collin to the newly created position of president at the Dallas-based private equity firm, in what is being viewed as a possible succession plan move. 

The Oklahoma Teachers’ Retirement System has issued RFPs for value-added and opportunistic real estate fund managers.

The outgoing president will be replaced by current vice president Keping Li.