Robin Marriott

Jack Rose, chief strategist at San Diego-based real estate consultant, Breakwater Equity Partners, says it is "really obscene" that "insurmountable" conflicts of interest exist at special servicers – often owned by private equity firms  

Global trades, excluding LP-to-LP transactions, were up 30 percent on 2013 volumes, marking the sixth consecutive record year

The Chicago-based real estate investment firm reaches its hard cap for Harrison Street Real Estate Partners V having held a first close at the end of October

RedTree Capital, the firm led by Eric Sasson and Robert Hodges, has struck a deal in Paris and announces a tie-up with UK & European Investments.

In its annual intentions survey, the European industry association said opportunity funds remained ‘lower down’ most investors’ lists of preferred investment strategies but had nevertheless seen a significant gain in popularity.

As tipped by PERE last June, the founder of Park Hill Real Estate’s European business, Audrey Klein, has joined Ærium, the Europe-focused real estate fund manager, as senior managing director and head of fundraising and business development.

Investment from an unnamed institution, further underlines the growing appetite from once-reticent Japanese institutions for offshore real estate exposure.

Valad Europe, the London-based private equity real estate firm, has set up a joint venture with an unnamed investor to acquire a portfolio of assets in the Netherlands

The NREP Nordic Strategies Fund set off at the start of the year with a €325 million target, but has closed oversubscribed with 18 investors from the US and Europe

The London-based firm reveals the formation of a Nordic industrial property fund containing around €300 million of assets.