Thomas Duffell
The Los Angeles-based alternative asset manager has acquired a 480,000 square foot office and retail portfolio consisting of eight properties located across five European countries.
A juggernaut in private equity, Swedish firm EQT has quietly rolled into the real estate marketplace.
The pair have launched a UK-wide multi-let industrial platform with a focus on acquiring individual estates and portfolios with a minimum £2m value.
The pan-European private equity real estate firm has agreed acquisitions valued at more than €450m, including one of the largest retail properties in central Munich and a shopping center in Berlin.
Sophie van Oosterom has been promoted from her role as the head of special programmes EMEA at the real estate investment management giant.
The pan-European real estate manager said the eight month fundraising to close its latest UK core-plus offering was the quickest in its 30-year history.
The London-listed real estate investor has acquired approximately 3.5 million square feet of space across 180 mixed use UK properties.
Chris Bartram will retire as chairman of the London-based investment manager at the end of March.
The UK insurer has invested all of its £140m UK commercial real estate fund in 16 months.
The former global head of portfolio management at Allianz Real Estate, Olivier Téran, will take on the chief investment officer role.