The private equity real estate firm has made a €39 million investment in the Italian retail sector and acquired a 50 percent interest in a Swiss hospitality company, its first deal in Switzerland.
SPG Partners, a firm led by former Ripplewood partner Ian Snow, announced its third deal, an investment in a lender to brownfield real estate projects.
Hermes Private Equity has returned to the hospitality sector with a minority stake in a French holiday park operator, its first investment in the sector since it sold a hotel chain, Galaxie Hotels, in 2005.
The New York-based private equity firm will acquire Realogy, the publicly traded owner of the Century 21 and Coldwell Banker franchises.
Continuing its efforts to grow its global real estate platform, Schroders has agreed to acquire the property asset management arm of the German bank.
The US buyout firm has appointed Walid Musallam to head its Middle East hybrid investing business, which is due to hit the fundraising trail for up to $1 billion.
Via its Eurocastle subsidiary, the alternative investment giant has acquired 61 office properties throughout Germany from DB Real Estate.
Philadelphia-based private equity real estate firm Rubenstein Partners has hired the former chief investment officer of Trizec to help acquire assets for its debut fund.
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity real estate firm has paid a reported $825 million for the Pacific Shores Center, a $500-million development that saw half of its buildings go vacant in the wake of the dot-com collapse.
A new JPMorgan survey has found that roughly one-third of US public pension funds will increase their allocations to real estate.