AG Realty Fund VIII and AG Core Plus Realty Fund III have closed on $1.27 billion and $1 billion, respectively.
The investment bank’s private equity real estate platform is expected to raise a sequel fund to its 2008, $2.6bn GS Real Estate Mezzanine Partners that would target both US and European opportunities.
The New York-based firm, led by former WP Carey executive Edward LaPuma, will be rolling out two real estate vehicles focusing on the sale-leaseback market in North America and Europe and seeking to raise a total of more than $400 million from institutional investors.
The Miami-based private equity firm also will be opening a new office in Bogota, Colombia, to support investments on behalf of the vehicle, which is the first dedicated to hospitality assets in the country.
The Garden State’s investment division is looking to purchase the portion of CT High Grade Partners II in which General Motors has invested. The vehicle, which focuses on real estate debt, is managed by Capital Trust.
The Singapore-based fund management company has made further inroads into its capital raising efforts for its ARA Asia Dragon Fund II after holding a second closing. Capital raising is expected to complete by the end of the year.
Having committed capital to London-based family office investment firm FORE, Capricorn Investment Group chief investment officer says family offices are ‘yearning for a new model’ as opposed to commingled, blind-pool, private equity real estate funds.
Paul Bacon, the long-serving chief executive officer of the world’s largest private property services firm, is to relinquish his post to the firm’s chairman, Carlo Barel di Sant’Albano, as he eyes launching his own investment management firm.
The London-based private equity real estate firm led by Robert Laurence has appointed boutique New York-headquartered advisory firm Hodes Weill & Associates for the capital raising task.
There was an ‘increase in confidence’ among private equity real estate firms last year, as evidenced by a 61.7 percent increase in the targeted equity for newly launched vehicles compared to 2010.