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The Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm has agreed to buy seven retail parks and gallerias in Sweden as part of its strategic focus on portfolio and corporate investments in Europe.

Further signs that private equity firms are gaining a foothold in Spain and its real estate sector as Apollo Global Management agrees to buy real estate management business, Altamira, from Spain’s biggest bank, Santander.

A need by Israeli-European group Kardan to meet debt repayments in 2014 and 2015 has led to the sale of a 27.75 percent stake in a Central and Eastern European property company to Lone Star Real Estate Fund III.

The property arm of British insurer Legal & General has raised more than £138m for the second of its UK Property Income Funds which also features a gearing choice for investors like the first.

  The Singapore-based real estate manager has launched a separate account for an unnamed US pension plan.  

North America has the largest increase of funds in market with Asia-Pacific coming in second

The Hong Kong and Singapore-focused private equity real estate firm bids to cement its status as a fund manager with the launch of a second value-added fund.

The Singapore state investment fund is a ‘principal investor’ in an India-focused development venture managed by neighbor, the developer-cum-fund manager Ascendas Group.

Antony Leung will join Hong Kong-based real estate group, Nan Fung, as CEO in Febraury 2014.

 The Salt Lake City-based investment firm, which just closed on its second real estate vehicle last month, is expanding its fund management platform with a new offering focused on the niche property strategy.