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Funds

Short of New Funds, Firm Takes a ‘Pause’

April 4, 2012

A once-highflying real estate fund that counts Harvard University, Duke University and other blue-chip names as investors is laying off its entire investment staff after determining it can’t raise new funds.

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Crying Foul Over the ‘Pink Ghetto’

March 28, 2012

Real-estate investment adviser Nori Gerardo Lietz has bashed high-risk property funds and dismissed the investment-banking model for real-estate private equity. Now, she is condemning the male-dominated senior management industrywide.

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Private Equity Funds Expect CRE Return Growth To Slow

March 22, 2012

Costar… One-year returns from private equity real estate funds have shown remarkable improvement since the real estate bubble burst in the latter half of the decade, despite under-performing every other major asset class, according to PitchBook/BMC Group’s annual private equity report. PitchBook is an independent private equity news and data provider. BMC Group is a leading global provider of information management solutions. Real estate funds were… See the original post here: Private Equity Funds Expect CRE Return Growth To Slow Find our Weekly Commercial Real Estate, Private Equity and Fund Newsletters at www.WeeklyBrief.net

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Love Among the Ruins

March 5, 2012

Private-equity funds are seeking solace in distressed property debt. But while opportunities abound to make big returns, funds will need forensic knowledge and a fearless attitude towards risk.

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Resort Operator Kerzner Shrinks

December 7, 2011

Five years after resort operator Kerzner International Holdings Ltd. was taken private in a $4 billion buyout by a group of big-name investors—including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Whitehall funds and Colony Capital LLC—the deal has turned into a bad bet.

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Anglo Irish Sells Loans to Two Banks, Lone Star

August 28, 2011

Private-equity giant Lone Star Funds and banks Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase are the winning bidders for Anglo Irish Bank Corp.’s $9.5 billion portfolio of U.S. commercial real-estate loans.

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Buyers Wary of Building Bubble

August 16, 2011

Some of the nation’s largest pension funds are starting to back away from trophy properties in the most expensive real-estate markets over concerns a new bubble is inflating.

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Swire Pacific to Sell Property for $2.41 Billion

July 29, 2011

Swire Pacific said its property arm plans to sell Festival Walk, a Hong Kong shopping and commercial complex, to Singapore-based Mapletree Investment Pte. Ltd. for $2.41 billion, in a move analysts said is aimed at raising funds to support the company’s property expansion plans in China.

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Complaint Saps REIT Sales

July 26, 2011

The Apple family of real-estate funds saw sales plunge in June after a securities regulator said it was suing David Lerner Associates, the broker that markets the funds.

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Montreal’s City Planners Turn Creative

June 22, 2011

Montreal’s city leaders are building an arts district, trying to leverage an investment of $149 million in public funds into more than $900 million in commercial real-estate investment.

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Goldman Suffers Office Loss

June 11, 2011

One of Goldman Sachs Group’s Whitehall real-estate funds has suffered a large loss on a trophy Manhattan office building, at 230 Park Ave., that the fund helped purchase at the market’s peak.

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June 4, 2011

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Goldman Restructures Hotel Debt

May 26, 2011

Goldman Sachs’s Whitehall Real Estate Funds restructured $1.42 billion of debt coming due on one of its largest hotel portfolios, the latest indication property owners are working through some of their most troubled assets.

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Real Estate Adds to Mets Owners’ Headache

March 29, 2011

Bernard Madoff isn’t the only headache for the owners of the New York Mets these days. The largest of the real-estate funds they invest in and control has seen values tumble and troubled properties accumulate.

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Deutsche Bank Sells Headquarters for $835 Million

March 15, 2011

The German bank sold its pair of reflective glass towers, nicknamed Debit and Credit, to one of its closed-end real-estate funds after an expensive renovation.

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Mall Owner Centro Revamps for Its Survival

March 1, 2011

Control of the Australian operations of mall giant Centro will go to U.S. hedge funds under a revamping plan. Some debt speculators hit the property jackpot.

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Greek Pension `Time Bomb’ May Be Difficult to Defuse for Unwed Daughters

February 16, 2011

By Maria Petrakis June 18 (Bloomberg) — Sophia Constantinidou works as a teacher in a private school in Athens. She also has a more lucrative job: remaining unmarried

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