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With its significant growth, healthy demographics and strong liquidity, real estate investors are turning their attention to the Middle East—and finding value across the region. By Aaron Lovell

For the past 40 years, Sam Zell has been one of the biggest and most successful players in the US real estate market. Always opinionated, never boring, Zell recently sat down with PERE to discuss his views on the global real estate market, his unconventional holiday gifts and why he likes Libya and Brazil. By Paul Fruchbom

New York-based alternative assets firm GSC Partners and property group Tishman Speyer are teaming up to invest in Shanghai and Beijing.

The global private equity group has created a joint venture with Spanish firm GED to help develop the Romanian real estate market.

Six of Paris' most luxurious hotels, including one owned by Starwood Capital, have been fined for anti-competitive practices.

Continuing its investing spree in the five boroughs of New York City, Apollo Real Estate has paid $100 million for an apartment complex in the Bronx.

Keeping busy in retirement, Hicks, Muse founder Tom Hicks recently announced a joint venture with luxury hotel developer Gatehouse Capital.

Los Angeles-based CBRE Investors, the private equity investing arm of the international real estate group, recently closed its fourth diversified, USfocused value-add property vehicle.

Though real estate investors are predicting short-term gloom for Miami, a recent trip to the city highlights its long-term promise. By Paul Fruchbom

Gunz 'n Apollo 2006-02-01 Staff Writer How far has gentrification come in New York? A neighborhood once “shouted out” in a classic gangsta rap track is now the site of a major deal led by Apollo Real Estate Advisors (see p.14). Last month, the New York private investment biggie announced it would lead an inv