News & Analysis

Lone Star said in a letter to Accredited Home Lenders today that it would loosen the closing conditions of the deal if Accredited agrees to cut its price from $400m to $225m.

Palo Alto, California-based Broadreach Capital Partners has expanded its Denver area office portfolio with the reported addition of its eleventh property for $45m.

The filming location for the iconic British evening soap EastEnders is up for sale, but potential buyers may be surprised by where it actually is.

The industrial property investor hopes to bring its total Japanese investment to $7.9bn by the end of 2009, its Japan chief says.

The publicly traded French hotel group’s chief executive says he has had no approach from an interested private equity bidder.

Indian housing lender HDFC has closed its first real estate fund for international investors—making the firm the largest player in the India private equity real estate space.

The French hypermarket group appears to have capitulated to demands by shareholder Colony Capital to release value from its vast property estate by spinning off pan-European vehicle, Carrefour Property, in 2008.

Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Madrone Capital Partners have paid $1bn to take a minority stake in hotel group Global Hyatt Corporation, as its family owners prepare to split the business up.

Global real estate firm Hines and investment partner CalPERS have reportedly sold the 919 Milam office building in downtown Houston to Chicago-based Transwestern Investment Company.

Nagarjuna Construction Company, the third largest construction company in India, has received an initial investment from The Blackstone Group.