Regulation & Legal

Morgan Stanley’s real estate arm has signalled a retreat from the Italian non-performing loan market with the sale of five portfolios for €918.5m.

Travel and real-estate company Cendant announced plans to sell its travel distribution services subsidiary Travelport—which includes its Orbitz and CheapTickets businesses—to The Blackstone Group for about $4.3bn in cash.

Brentwood Associates will sell the consumer-product company to Carlyle after a hotly contested auction.

A new set of private equity valuation guidelines have been endorsed in the farthest corners of the world - but not in the US. By Judy Kuan.

As the economies of Asia take flight, PERE takes a trip around the region to look at the residential markets of China, Japan and India— what is making them tick, what do buyers want and how can foreign funds participate? By Aaron Lovell

As real estate investors compete for increasingly scarce opportunities, the need for due diligence to be conducted quickly has never been greater. By Dave Keating

2001 Lone Star scoops up a prime Seoul office building in the wake of the Asian currency crisis

An office grows in Warsaw 2006-07-01 Staff Writer It may be only a coincidence but three months after the S&L bailout package was signed into law, foreshadowing the development of the US private equity real estate industry, another historic occasion took place halfway around the world: the toppling of th

1991 Charles Hurwitz buys the first portfolio of distressed S&L assets

As firms seek outsized returns, capital keeps finding its way to new, more interesting and sometimes more obscure markets. By Aaron Lovell