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Apollo Real Estate Advisors has hired Hollywood property pro Frank Buckley to join its West Coast operation.

The Carlyle Group has closed its fifth US-focused private equity real estate fund on $3 billion—an amount more than triple its previous fund raised two years ago.

In the age of “thought leadership,” everyone is weighing in on the US subprime crisis—and what it might mean for business. Some of it, of course, is bloviation, while some is genuinely insightful. By Aaron Lovell

Four Food Groups 2008-10-01 Staff Writer <strong><bold>INDUSTRIAL<br /> Warehouse full of yen</bold></strong><br /> Logistics property trust ProLogis has a yen to stretch its boundaries. The Denver-based industrial property developer is looking to invest ¥450 billion (€2

Sex, communism and real estate 2008-10-01 Staff Writer <strong>Quotable</strong><br /> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>“What we have seen is a lull in the market, what you might call the calm before the storm. We are seeing prices c

Take a hike 2008-10-01 Staff Writer Your mother was right—walking is good for you. And what better way to exercise the theory than to live in an area with a high “walk score.”<br /> <br /> Walkscore.com claims to “help homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in gr

Bluewater on the block 2008-10-01 Staff Writer Bluewater shopping center in Kent, built in 1999, used to be the biggest shopping mall in Britain until it was overtaken in 2004 by the MetroCentre near Newcastle. But the retail property has stayed in the headlines for all sorts of other reasons.<br /> &

Aircraft carriers 2008-10-01 Staff Writer Is it possible to grow bored with a crisis even as it continues to unfold? If so, count me among the bored.<br /> <br /> Let me clarify—the effects of the subprime meltdown and resulting credit crunch on private equity real estate may ultimately be a gr

Steven Lin, the executive vice president of Capmark Financial and head of its Asia operations, has resigned effective immediately, according to a regulatory filing. Lin was formerly with Goldman Sachs' Real Estate Principal Investment Area.

The contract award is part of the US government’s experimental program to privatise five US airports. Details of the investor group’s development plans for Chicago Midway Airport were not disclosed.