Jonathan Brasse
Jonathan Brasse is the Senior Editor, Real Estate for PEI Media’s real estate publications. He oversees the editorial output and leads the reporting team behind the sector-leading private real estate publication PERE as well as Real Estate Capital, the group’s real estate credit markets publication. Jonathan joined PEI in 2009 from UK commercial property magazine Property Week where he oversaw international news and analysis coverage.
The Ho Chi Minh City-based firm has entered the exit stage for its AiM-listed real estate fund, VinaCapital. Including the Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel sale, the fund has exited 12 investments so far.
The Dallas-based firm is acquiring $10bn of performing and non-performing loans in Japan for just less than $300m.
LaSalle Investment Management and ING Real Estate Investment Management remain on a whittled-down shortlist to buy the management of the Wall Street Bank’s Asian Real Estate opportunity Fund and its other Asian real estate holdings.
The $200bn National Pension Service of Korea has mandated London-based Rockspring to buy London assets as part of a $3bn investment programme aimed the mature markets of London, New York and Sydney.
The Beijing-based insurance giant next month will introduce plans to expand into private equity, real estate and infrastructure investments.
Focus DIY is set to halve £12m in potential property costs in a deal illustrating landlords' desire to circumvent vacancies.
Former Istithmar managing director Richard Johnson has resigned from his post as the chief executive officer of a jointly managed real estate fund by his old employer and current employer Standard Chartered.
The Chinese Sovereign Wealth fund has reportedly shortlisted nine fund managers taking part in the US Public-Private Investment Plan.
The firm has hired former Pequot Capital chief investment strategist Byron Wien as it looks to macroeconomic analysis to help spend its $29bn in dry powder.
After real estate losses constituted the biggest part of the Canadian pension’s $5.7 billion loss for the half-year to 30 June, it has decided to “reposition” its real estate exposure.