Regulation & Legal

Denver-based KSL Capital, a former KKR affiliate, has raised more than $1 bn for its first standalone real estate fund.

The Morristown, New Jersey-based opportunistic investor expects the fund, which has $600 million in buying power, to be fully invested within the next year.

North Asset Management defies skeptics by listing a €100m property fund focused on EU accession states.

Morgan Stanley’s real estate arm has signalled a retreat from the Italian non-performing loan market with the sale of five portfolios for €918.5m.

Travel and real-estate company Cendant announced plans to sell its travel distribution services subsidiary Travelport—which includes its Orbitz and CheapTickets businesses—to The Blackstone Group for about $4.3bn in cash.

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

A new set of private equity valuation guidelines have been endorsed in the farthest corners of the world - but not in the US. By Judy Kuan.

As the economies of Asia take flight, PERE takes a trip around the region to look at the residential markets of China, Japan and India— what is making them tick, what do buyers want and how can foreign funds participate? By Aaron Lovell

As real estate investors compete for increasingly scarce opportunities, the need for due diligence to be conducted quickly has never been greater. By Dave Keating

2001 Lone Star scoops up a prime Seoul office building in the wake of the Asian currency crisis