There seems to have been a steady procession recently of fund managers shunning closed-ended structures in favour of perpetual vehicles. Internos Global Investors provides the latest example, writes Robin Marriott, editor of PropertyEU CapitalWatch.
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Many organisations over the last decade have gained an increased awareness and understanding of the critical role diversity plays for their boards of directors and C-level positions, especially in the real estate industry, writes Serena Althaus.
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Traditionally, no part of the private equity real estate industry has been more opaque than secondaries – the trading of fund interests. But thanks to some improved transparency, the European market got to hear of a significant deal last month.
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With the UK prime minister pushing for a 'hard' Brexit and important elections due in France, the Netherlands, Germany and perhaps Italy, one might question why international investors are still allocating capital to European and UK commercial real estate. As Mipim 2017 opens, David Kirkby, CEO for Europe at Cromwell Property Group, casts his eye over key markets in search of possible answers.
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A Dutch institutional investor recently decided against a commitment to a US real estate fund because the board disapproved of Trump’s social policies. Isolated incident or indicative of a trend? Shocking or totally intelligible? Robin Marriott comments.
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Colony Capital's healthy real estate investment pipeline coincides with the rise to prominence of its founder and executive chairman, Thomas Barrack, writes Robin Marriott in his Private Equity Letter, published in the January edition of PropertyEU Magazine.
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As long as China remains a revolving dictatorship, enriched citizens will continue to shove money out the door, just in case the proletariat revolts. A cynical take on why Guangdong soy sauce conglomerate, Lee Kum Kee, last month paid £37 mln (€44 mln) for a 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2) office block in London Docklands – even though they intend to occupy only one of the 10 floors.
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In November, a staggering $1.7 tln (€1.6 tln) was wiped off the value of global government bonds, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate bond index, the sharpest losses since the index was established more than a quarter of a century ago, writes Nicholas Spiro.
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The Central London site of famous diamond trader De Beers is being seen as the first opportunistic/value-add asset to hit the market in the UK capital since Brexit, writes Robin Marriott in his Private Equity Letter published in PropertyEU Magazine.
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No property man has ever got this far, writes real estate finance specialist Jeppe de Boer, of Donald Trump's US election win. And his victory may not spell all bad news for the European property sector.
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German-listed real estate company Branicks Group has sold a retail property in Bremen city centre to municipal urban developer Brestadt for €37.2 mln.
