Graham Winfrey

Since handing back the keys to the New York multifamily complex, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Tishman Speyer has remained active, completing workouts, raising capital and looking for new deals.

The former vice-presidential contender tries to win over retail pros in Vegas admitting she doesn’t care to shop. PERE Magazine July/August 2010 issue

The US president’s college apartment was vacant and looking for candidates last month. PERE Magazine July/August 2010 issue

Property owners in South Africa looking to score extra cash by renting their homes to visiting fans have lost out big time. PERE Magazine July/August 2010 issue

A bill that would have prohibited CalSTRS and CalPERS from investing with managers employing “predatory investment practices” failed to pass in a California Senate committee Tuesday.

ING Real Estate Investment Management, which is currently in the process of being sold, has agreed to sell the last assets of its Real Estate Office Fund of The Netherlands (REOFN) portfolio to a joint venture of Dutch family offices and Middle Eastern institutional investors.

The Switzerland-based private equity real estate firm has purchased a residential and commercial portfolio comprising 40 properties and more than 2,000 apartments.

The Paris-based firm has launched a new US distribution platform and appointed Elizabeth Behnke as head of US sales.

The BMB Group, the Islamic advisory firm which counts the Sultan of Brunei’s family among its clients, has teamed up with Alliance Capital Partners to form BMB Alliance, a pan-European commercial and residential real estate investment firm. The partnership comes just weeks before BMB plans to announce the first of a series of new real estate funds.

The Edinburgh-based asset manager has named David Paine as its next head of property investments, following the retirement of veteran managing director Alex Watt in November.