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Fremont Realty Capital, Shorenstein Properties and New York real estate investor Mark Karasick have acquired 311 S. Wacker, a fixture in the Windy City skyline.

The world’s largest global property services firm takes full control of Noble Gibbons.

The $90m acquisition may represent South Florida’s largest industrial transaction for the year.

The Los Angeles-based fund, tied to basketball legend Magic Johnson, will partner with a developer to build a 266-unit project as part of an urban revitalization in the city’s Southeast quadrant.

Brentwood Associates will sell the consumer-product company to Carlyle after a hotly contested auction.

As activity in the European hospitality sector accelerates, private equity firms are reshaping the industry's ownership structure, begging the question as to who will own hotels in the future. By Arthur de Haast, global chief executive officer at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels

James Quille, the chief executive officer of Macquarie Global Property Advisors, has spent much of his 30-year career traveling the world in search of real estate opportunities. Here he talks with PERE about his roots in London, his travels to China and working in the copper mines of Zambia. By Paul Fruchbom

Sydney-based AMP Capital has raised just over A$200 million for its second private equity real estate fund, the largest ever in Australia.

Former Doughty Hanson real estate head Marc Mogull has launched a new firm focusing on middle market deals in Europe.

Secondary investor Liquid Realty Partners adds a new director of portfolio management as its business grows overseas.