Investors still want real estate in the portfolio for the same reasons as they wanted it before the credit crunch. PERE magazine December 2009-January 2010 issue
7 min read · 08 February 2013
As the economic climate improves, Nippon Life’s Hideya Sadanaga reflects on the lessons LPs can learn from the financial crisis and shares his views on the Asian private equity industry.
6 min read · 08 February 2013
The state-owned ports and real estate conglomerate at the centre of Dubai’s current economic crisis has announced it is focusing the restructuring of its debt obligations towards itself and its real estate subsidiaries Nakheel and Limitless. It also confirmed that asset sales could form part of the process.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The firm founded by Sam Kaneko brought a very un-Japanese style of investment to Asia’s largest market. This allowed daVinci to grow into Japan’s largest private equity real estate firm but, according to market insiders, was partly to blame for the dire problems the firm faces today. PERE magazine, Dec 2009-Jan 2010 issue
10 min read · 08 February 2013
There has been little clarity to the US real estate markets in the past year, however things have started to change. At the recent Urban Land Institute conference in San Francisco, PERE assembled a cross-section of industry professionals to gauge their thoughts on the state of the market and the future for private equity real estate. PERE magazine December 2009-January 2010 issue.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
In a statement released today, Abdulrahman al-Saleh, director general of Dubai’s department of finance, distanced the financial position of the state from the debts of Dubai World, a ports and real estate investment conglomerate it owns.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Warnings in 2006 that Dubai would be a property disaster just like Texas in the 1970s have proved prescient. But few expect quick opportunistic deals to come out of the stricken emirate today. By Robin Marriott
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The $400m sale of commercial mortgage bonds by US mall owner Developers Diversified Realty was secured by 28 assets. The REIT says it will continue to access ‘long-term capital to retire short-term debt’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The parent company of Istithmar – the private equity platform that owns stakes in Barneys New York, Cirque du Soleil and hedge fund operator GLG Partners – has asked creditors to accept a standstill on its $60bn of debt.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Lone Star has a plan to keep total control of bankrupt US grocer Bi-Lo outside of bankruptcy, while a lending group that includes KKR wants to split control of the company. Bi-Lo operates 215 stores in the southeastern US.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
