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Global Co-Chief Investment Officer
Senior Managing Director - Global Chief Operating Officer of Real Estate - Global Head of Real Estate Asset Management
President - Chief Operating Officer
Head of Strategic Investments
Managing Director
Global Co-Chief Investment Officer
Senior Managing Director - Global Chief Operating Officer of Real Estate - Global Head of Real Estate Asset Management
President - Chief Operating Officer
Head of Strategic Investments
Global Co-Head of Real Estate
Global Co-Head of Real Estate
Senior Managing Director - Chief Investment Officer - Chairman Blackstone Capital Partners International
Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group and the Head of Real Estate Europe
Senior Managing Director - Global Head of the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies group
Co-Founder - Chairman - Chief Executive Officer
Extendam has acquired the premises and goodwill of the Hilton Garden Inn Sevilla hotel from Aliseda Inmobiliaria, an entity controlled by funds controlled by (...)
The impact of the adversity was felt throughout the industry and investment dropped across all sectors while yields moved out. On a sector basis, (...)
The summer season has not dampened Corum's appetite for Dutch property. On behalf of its SCPI fund Corum Origin, the Paris-based management company acquired (...)
Corum is continuing its shopping spree in Europe. The investment manager has signed today the acquisition of Capgemini's headquarters in Utrecht from Chinese insurer (...)
Business Immo Global: Can we conclude from the successful fundraising of the Blackstone Real Estate Partners X fund that institutional investors still have a (...)
Blackstone Group has refinanced its Spanish multifamily portfolio Fidere with a €440m loan from BNP Paribas, Citi and Crédit Agricole CIB, according to an exclusive (...)
When Blackstone announced it had raised $30.4bn for Blackstone Real Estate Partners X, "the largest ever" real estate drawdown fund in April, real estate (...)
Blackstone today announced the final close of its latest global real estate fund, Blackstone Real Estate Partners X, with $30.4bn of total capital commitments — "the (...)
AXA IM Alts has acquired a c. €285m residential portfolio in Madrid, Spain, from funds managed by Blackstone. The acquisition has been made on behalf of (...)
Blackstone has announced that existing investors in Mileway, its 14.7 million square meter pan-European last mile logistics company, have agreed to recapitalise the company for (...)
Investors brushed aside concerns about the impact of the Omicron variant to make Q4 one of the most important quarters of 2021 for European (...)
According to the latest analytics from Real Capital Analytics (RCA), investor interest in the life sciences sector has exploded. While the shadow of remote (...)
Total global real estate assets under management (AUM) hit €3.3tr in 2020, despite the challenges of the global pandemic, according to the Fund Manager (...)
Following its October $14.6bn recapitalisation of BioMed Realty, the largest private owner of life science office buildings in the United States, Blackstone announced in (...)
Amid the numerous uncertainties caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the European logistics sector continues to attract a high level of capital, the latest data (...)
Funds managed by global private investment firm Castlelake and its joint venture partner Melcombe, have sold the Proximity Portfolio, a 28-asset prime last mile/urban (...)
The Covid-19 with the pandemic making it harder to complete commercial real estate transactions and upending financial and economic projections, according to Real Capital (...)
The latest Real Capital Analytics data indicates that transaction volume for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is just 6% lower than 2019 levels, (...)
Total real estate assets under management (AUM) stands at €3.2tr at the end of 2019, according to the ANREV/INREV/NCREIF Fund Manager Survey 2020, a (...)
Cromwell European Real Estate Investment Trust (CEREIT) has completed the sale of 12 assets in France, Denmark and the Netherlands for €65.7m to funds advised (...)
Giant US wealth manager Blackstone has sold four Spanish office assets to French private group Tikehau plus the Singapore-based IREIT Global for a reported €130.5m. The US (...)
Spanish property investment manager Azora has filed its private equity fund with regulators, which targets investing around €1.3bn in resort hotels in southern Europe. Called (...)
Jersey-based ActivumSG has named Luis Miguel Martín as MD charged with growing its Spanish hotel portfolio beyond its five initial investments valued at around (...)
LaSalle IM is providing three mezzanine loans of over €200m to Blackstone funds to refinance three portfolios of logistics assets Germany, the Netherlands, France (...)
German listed investment manager Patrizia has completed the sale of a French logistics portfolio to US manager Blackstone for a total price of €260m (...)
US fund Blackstone is reported to have paid around €100m to acquire the 18,000 sqm Tarragona Tower office skyscraper in Spain's Barcelona from UBS (...)
US investment giant Blackstone has launched a pan-European last-mile logistics property firm, Mileway combining some 1,000 assets, 9m sqm of space already acquired by its funds. The (...)
US giant Blackstone is entering Greek hospitality with the acquisition of five hotels on the Greek Islands from Cyprus-based Louis Group for an enterprise (...)
Germany's giant residential group Vonovia is acquiring a majority stake in Swedish housing firm Hembla from Blackstone for SEK12.23bn (€1.14bn), its second takeover in the nation. In a move (...)
Despite European listed real estate trading predominantly at discounts to NAV, recent renewed M&A activity is unlikely to signal a wave of take-private deals, (...)
The Squaire, the 140,000 sqm office and retail complex at Frankfurt Airport, is close to being sold to a Korean-led consortium for around €990m, according (...)
In a major surge in European real estate M&A, US-based Blackstone is acquiring the Germany-focused Canadian REIT Dream Global for C$6.2bn (€4.2bn) in a (...)
Madrid investment manager Azora is partnering with Palladium Hotels in a €500m JV in Mediterranean resort hotels, starting with €115m purchase of three assets, (...)
US investment firm Thor Equities, traditionally focused solely on retail real estate, is launching ThorLogis, a division specialising in the logistics sector. In a statement it (...)
German capital Berlin attracted most multifamily investment last year, at €3.11bn, says JLL's European Multifamily Investment Report - followed by Copenhagen, Paris and London. The (...)
Likely to be France's deal of the year, Paris's largest office complex, Lumière, has been acquired by fund manager Primonial and Korea's Samsung SRA for (...)
US firms Blackstone and Prologis are reportedly leading the bid for the Spanish logistics portfolio being sold by listed group Colonial, with bids running (...)
New York-headquartered Eastdil Secured, adviser on some of the largest global real estate deals, is splitting from lender Wells Fargo in an MBO backed by Singapore's Temasek and (...)
Two years after Blackstone sold logistics firm Logicor for €12bn, the US wealth manager is reportedly planning to pool €6bn smaller or last-mile European properties into (...)
Global real estate assets under management last year rose by 12% to €2.8tr, with Blackstone becoming the first manager to exceed €200bn, say non-listed (...)
Ten months after selling its Hispania resort hotel REIT/SOCIMI to Blackstone, Spanish real estate investment manager Azora is back in the hotel business. The Madrid-based group (...)
CBRE Global Investors has completed a €350m refinancing for its Dutch Office Fund, provided jointly by US-based PGIM Real Estate and UK insurer Rothesay Life. The loan (...)
US fund giant Blackstone is to sell all five office assets in its Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Corona, reportedly aiming to generate €220m through individual disposals. Local Spanish (...)
Arrow Capital Partners, founded by former Valad CEO Martyn McCarthy, is entering Spain and initially targeting €200m investment in last-mile logistics as well as (...)
US-based Clarion Partners has taken a majority stake in industrial real estate sale-leaseback specialist Gramercy Europe, which only six months ago was MBO'd from its former (...)
US-based investment giant Blackstone, which holds real estate in Spain worth some €20bn, is reported to be preparing a wave of disposals, including much (...)
A maturity is entering real estate. Recognition that it is not for old cowboys but a sector where success is tied directly to user (...)
In a deal worth $4.7bn, Canadian investment manager Brookfield is to take a 62% stake in California’s Oaktree Capital, creating a $475bn alternatives giant (...)
Paris office REIT/SIIC Cegereal posted a sharp drop in net income last year to €33.1m after €62.4m in 2017 mainly due to the high portfolio uplift (...)
Real estate investors in 2019 will need to adjust to rapid changes deriving from five main sources: environmental, governance, geopolitical, transparency and tech-related, says (...)
Spanish property yields should remain stable this year, predicts international adviser CBRE, after foreign capital made up €11.8bn of the record €20bn invested in (...)
For real estate investors, 2019 may be a year of adjusting to rapid changes from many sources including environmental, social and governance risks, geopolitical (...)
US investment funds KKR and Round Hill Capital are reported to be leading the bid, at up to €170m, for a 500,000 sqm logistics (...)
Swiss insurer Zurich, in one of its first visible deals in Spain, has paid €163.5m for five office assets in Madrid, part of the (...)
The largest shareholder of Berlin's listed TLG, Ouram Holding, has withdrawn a request for an extraordinary shareholder meeting, aimed to make deep changes to the (...)
Global financial and audit group KPMG has extended and expanded its lease at the giant Squaire complex at Frankfurt Airport, laying to rest market rumours that (...)
Spain will need another 2m homes over the next 15 years to meet accelerating demand and to build them must attract around €300bn in (...)
Azora, the Madrid property manager which developed and then sold one of Spain' largest REITs, has launched a firm with CBRE to invest €250m (...)
In Spain's largest logistics deal this year, Madrid-based outlet specialist Neinver has, for around €300m, completed a previously reported sale to Blackstone of 55 (...)
Allianz Real Estate’s pan-European debt fund has surpassed €1bn in deployed capital in its first five months, with deals in UK, Italy, Ireland, Spain (...)
UK-based M7 Real Estate has reached agreement with JV partner Starwood to sell their light industrial and logistics unit MStar Europe for €486m. The buyer is (...)
US wealth management giant Blackstone is reported to be finalising acquisition of 37 logistics centres in Spain for €290m owned by outlet firm Neinver and Colony (...)
London-based private investment firm Marcol is back in buying mode for industrial assets in France after its portfolio sale in July to giant US (...)
Madrid-based real estate manager Azora has created a partnership with Oquendo Capital to promote closed-end alternative finance funds aimed at projects or firms in (...)
US investment giant Blackstone has won the green light from the Spanish regulator to take control of listed housing firm Testa, acquiring the stakes (...)
As real estate investment capital continues to pour into Spain, US investment giant Blackstone has become the nation's largest residential landlord with 32,000 homes, (...)
With a near €1.4bn bid, France's CDC Habitat, backed by two state pension funds and Germany's Vonovia, has won the 4,000-unit housing portfolio sold (...)
Spain's Banco Santander has bid over €3bn to buy back its own HQ near Madrid in an off-market auction conducted by liquidators of the (...)
After several delays, Portugal is planning to introduce REIT legislation in January for all real estate asset classes and will finalise details before year end, says (...)
In one of the biggest real estate deals this year in Spain, a consortium led by US funds Blackstone and Centerbridge is reportedly offering over €3bn (...)
US-based Blackstone has taken control of Spanish listed housing firm Testa less than two months after flotation, buying 50.01% in an offer for Merlin (...)
US investment management giant Blackstone has agreed to acquire a logistics portfolio comprising 49 assets held in the MStar Europe joint venture between US (...)
London-based Schroder Real Estate has acquired, on behalf of a joint venture, the 35,000 sqm Pollux office tower near Frankfurt's trade fair ground for (...)
CBRE Global Investment Partners and Madison International Realty are jointly acquiring a 6,458-unit Spanish residential portfolio valued at €870m from Madrid's Azora group, which (...)
China is reported to have ordered some investors in Blackstone's former European industrial property firm Logicor, saying the stakes violate regulations on overseas holdings. The report, (...)
Azora, the Madrid-based investment manager that built and then sold Spanish REIT Hispania to Blackstone, aims to invest further in resort hotels but is (...)
Airbnb and other similar internet-based lodging platforms pose no real threat to the hotel industry but more to rented housing in the major cities, (...)
European real estate investment slowed 19%yy in the first half to €109.8bn as high prices led institutions to scale back, says New York-based research (...)
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and France. Those are the markets where Hong Kong and Shanghai-based Gaw Capital aims to expand Spain’s Hospes hotels with (...)
US investment management giant Blackstone has succeeded in its €2bn bid for Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Hispania, winning acceptances for 74.02% of equity, well over its (...)
Spain's largest REIT/SOCIMI Merlin Properties has paid €406.7m to acquire from Blackstone the Forum Almada mall in Portugal across the Tagus River across from (...)
Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Lar Espana has finalised sale of a logistics portfolio to US investment giant Blackstone. Reported by local media in negotiation for over €90m, the final (...)
Munich-based Real I.S., the fund manager of the BayernLB group, paid around €180m to acquire the Sumatrakontor office block in Hamburg’s HafenCity, according to German media. Real (...)
Just one day after adding five logistics properties in Germany, US giant Blackstone is adding seven in France for €175m via Gramercy Europe, part of US REIT (...)
US investment management giant Blackstone has confirmed that it was the buyer of a five-asset German logistics portfolio reported by the seller Prologis, totalling 157,645 sqm. A spokesman (...)
Spain's hotels-focused REIT/SOCIMI Hispania said its board has approved the takeover bid made by US wealth giant Blackstone after the latter raised its offer to €18.25 per share (...)
Primarily due to rapid growth of big managers, aided by a trend to consolidation, average assets managed by global property funds last year rose (...)
US investment management giant Blackstone, in the middle of a takeover bid for Spain's Hispania, is finalising acquisition of a Spanish logistics portfolio owned by another (...)
The Spanish financial regulator CNMV has approved the takeover bid by Blackstone for hotels REIT Hispania. If successful, the firm will be taken private and all profits will move (...)
With Spanish tourism booming and no fewer than 173 new hotel openings forecast in the next four years, US giant Blackstone will likely do what it (...)
NYSE-listed REIT Park Hotels & Resorts has closed the €297m sale of the 601-room Hilton Berlin. The move came as US wealth manager Blackstone also sold its last (...)
Shares in German listed real estate group Patrizia surged by over 11% on Thursday following news that its first quarter operating income quadrupled to nearly €43m (...)
US wealth management giant Blackstone and Frankfurt-based alternative investment manager Quincap have together acquired the 44,000 sqm Arabella Bogen office building in Munich for a price (...)
US investment management Blackstone has added 2,500 residential units in central Berlin to its portfolio of over 100,000 units spanning Germany, Spain, Sweden and (...)
Spanish real estate manager Azora Altus, which created and manages the REIT Hispania, is to issue 47m new shares to raise around €500m in its own (...)
Investment in European commercial real estate slowed sharply in the first three months of 2018 after a record fourth quarter as investors reassessed pricing (...)
Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Hispania said Monday it will to seek an alternative buyer to maximise value, and that a takeover bid by Blackstone subsidiary Alzette earlier this month following (...)
The entry of GPIF, Japan Post and other giant Tokyo institutions to European property is happening but may take longer if managers reject inital fee (...)
Spain's Azora, the external manager of REIT/SOCIMI Hispania and other real estate firms, confirmed Wednesday that it is planning its own stock market flotation. Reports say it (...)
Shares in Spanish REIT/SOCIMI Hispania jumped by 7.3% yesterday on media reports that US wealth manager Blackstone plans a takeover bid once it executes plans to sell office (...)
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