July / August 2016 Issue

As private real estate fund strategies converge, the industry should focus a lot less on marketing labels, says Chris Rice-Shepherd, managing director at Cliffwater.

Industry insiders are divided over whether The Blackstone Group’s potential $11 billion IPO of Logicor, its London-based European logistics business, will actually happen.

Korea Post’s latest US acquisition was unusual at a time when many investors are being priced out of the country’s top-tier markets.

The JBG Companies' reverse merger is not without its challenges.

BlackRock’s Asia Square Tower I has finally been sold. Time for the firm’s naysayers to face facts.

Rockpoint recently bought into the Taj Boston, which operated as the Ritz-Carlton for most of its 89-year history, and will aim to bring back some of the hotel's faded stardust.

After record capital raises, the world’s megafund managers say they are not feeling the heat to get the money out of the door as they seek out new investment strategies in order to generate opportunistic returns.

The JBG Companies' reverse merger is not without its challenges.

The former Blackstone executive has joined KKR as the firm’s first head of real estate for Greater China.

At the PERE Europe Summit 2016, senior editor Jonathan Brasse sat down with Bill Tresham, president of C$55 billion Canadian investment giant Ivanhoé Cambridge, to hear how the institutional investor is navigating today’s private real estate marketplace.

Fresh from her keynote presentation at last month’s PERE Europe Summit, Sabina Kalyan, global chief economist and head of EMEA strategy & research at CBRE Global Investors, reiterates the macroeconomic concerns facing property markets today.

At PERE’s fourth annual China conference, delegates were optimistic about finding opportunities in real estate debt and even in Tier 2 cities.

In the first of a new feature for PERE, we caught up with Swiss investment bank UBS’ head of global real estate, Thomas Wels for a 10-question round of ‘either-or’ based on what he’s seeing in the marketplace today.

With its new merger, Colony Capital is making a major move up the ranks, but also may be taking on some major challenges.

Think SEC examinations are scary? Now there is reason to be even more afraid.

Today’s interpretations of value-add and opportunistic real estate strategies, as well as the tolerated risks within the definitions, are shifting.

Anti-corruption due diligence, not only on investment opportunities, but also on local partners and third parties in India, is essential in mitigating India’s high corruption risk, says Cori Lable, partner at law firm Ropes & Gray.

Recent big-ticket US acquisitions allay Western fears about Chinese investors’ ability to execute transactions following Anbang's aborted hotel bid.

The trend towards fund manager consolidation continues apace, causing consternation among the smaller players. But there is a glimmer of hope for certain fund managers. 

After more than a year in a state of flux caused by MSREI's gradual exit from the business, Investa Property Group is raising and deploying capital as it gets back to normality.

On the back of a mega corporate merger and significant capital deployment over recent times, Jonathan Yap, CIO of newly-minted Ascendas-Singbridge, speaks to PERE's Arshiya Khullar about where the state-backed company goes from here.

One of the Japanese ‘big four’ pension funds has named its first real estate fund manager as the country's institutional investors begin to dip their toe in the market.

Amundi Real Estate, the firm behind the largest single asset transaction in Dutch real estate history, has an eye on dominating Europe. By Jamie Henderson

Mubadala’s acquisition of an important stake in Investcorp paves the way for the sovereign wealth fund to invest in US and European real estate.