Dave Keating

Though investment by domestic firms in Chinese real estate rose dramatically in the first half of 2008, investment by foreign firms fell sharply. Have Western investors fled from Chinese real estate for the time being? PERE Magazine December 2008/January 2009 issue

The firm has completed fundraising for the opportunity vehicle, which will focus chiefly on Japan, China and South Korea.

In what could be a sign of things to come, the firm has made the first tender offer for a J-REIT in Japan as the publicly listed vehicles continue to be undervalued.

Deutsche Bank's property investment and infrastructure arm has sold the Daewoo Securities office building to the main tenant for $36 million more than it paid for it in March 2007.

The Indian real estate fund has invested in one of the first ‘green’ developments in India, being built by the 3C Group in Noida.

Though property sales are healthy in Japan, the balance sheets of many Japanese developers are not.

The Deutsche Bank real estate unit has reportedly bought a 40-story commercial building in Dalian, northeast China.

Finnish property group Catella has appointed Nurminen, formerly CEO of the group’s Finnish business, to head its growing asset management arm Amplion.

The failed Japanese real estate developer has reportedly attracted as many as 10 potential investors in an auction of the company.

The Dubai-based developer, a subsidiary of state-owned Dubai World, is at the center of a bribery investigation involving one current and one former employee.