Managers

The closing for the fund of funds, bringing the total amount raised to $158 million, came mostly from a Finnish pension.

The pair are launching a range of pooled real estate vehicles known as OPCIs which have only recently been introduced in France.

The London-based boutique fund manager has raised €640 million so far for a pan-Europe opportunity fund, but expects to close out next week on more as the finishing touches are made to final commitments.

The years leading up to 2007 generated rising returns for private equity firms, as investors made use of highly favourable conditions in the credit markets.

The Carlyle Group’s majority stake in intermodal operator ITS Technologies & Logistics represents the latest deal in a growing trend of private equity real estate firms targeting the industrial and logistics space.

The captive arm of the emerging markets fund manager has tapped increasing demand to invest in emerging markets, nearly quadrupling the size of its previous fund and raising more than 60 percent from new investors.

The New York-based real estate firm will focus on undervalued and distressed assets in the US, Europe and Japan with its latest real estate vehicle, Westbrook Real Estate Fund VIII.

A Goldman Sachs-led consortium lost out to Citi Infrastructure Investors and Spanish infrastructure operator Abertis Infraestructuras in what is potentially the largest toll road privatisation in US history.

Apollo Real Estate has plugged a gap in its European property coverage by acquiring a specialist debt company in London and now plans to raise a $1 billion fund.

XOJET has secured nearly $2.5bn in debt and equity financing from investors, including private equity firm TPG, at the same time as agreeing a separate joint venture with Tasameem Real Estate to establish a presence in Abu Dhabi.