Regulation & Legal

With its significant growth, healthy demographics and strong liquidity, real estate investors are turning their attention to the Middle East—and finding value across the region. By Aaron Lovell

Dubai has ambitions to become the economic hub of the Middle East. Given the pace of recent activity, it's well on its way. By Jonn Elledge

Buoyed by the wealth generated from extensive natural resources and a loosening of foreign ownership laws, many Middle Eastern countries are transforming their local real estate markets.

For the past 40 years, Sam Zell has been one of the biggest and most successful players in the US real estate market. Always opinionated, never boring, Zell recently sat down with PERE to discuss his views on the global real estate market, his unconventional holiday gifts and why he likes Libya and Brazil. By Paul Fruchbom

The biggest pension fund in the US likes China. How does the hype compare to the risk? By Aaron Lovell

Six of Paris' most luxurious hotels, including one owned by Starwood Capital, have been fined for anti-competitive practices.

Los Angeles-based CBRE Investors, the private equity investing arm of the international real estate group, recently closed its fourth diversified, USfocused value-add property vehicle.

Though real estate investors are predicting short-term gloom for Miami, a recent trip to the city highlights its long-term promise. By Paul Fruchbom

Texas Pacific Group is to sell the majority of its stake in the Italian bike firm to European private equity firm InvestIndustrial.

To sell or not to sell 2005-12-01 Staff Writer trend was really only seen in a handful of US markets. In fact, the term “Las Vegas Condo” became, in certain circles, crude shorthand for the exact sort of bets most private equity real estate firms do not want to make: expensive, risky, highly speculative and