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.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has secured refinancing for a 13-hotel strong portfolio in Japan originally bought for ¥280bn in 2007.
As part of the agreement, the general partner responsibilities of the $2.65bn Asian Real Estate Opportunities Fund are expected to transfer to Blackstone.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has teamed up with German retail real estate investment and development firm Redos Real Estate to ‘invest several hundred million Euros’ in retail properties in Germany. The partnership, MSREI’s second struck this year in Europe, has started with the €150 million purchase of a 23-asset strong portfolio.
Denver-based leisure investment firm KSL Capital has hit the fundraising trail.
Lagging valuations from private equity and real estate holdings have caused GIC's alternatives exposure to drop five percentage points.
Timothy Grady, the real estate veteran responsible for launching and growing Merrill Lynch’s private equity real estate platform in Asia, has joined Mark McGoldrick’s Mount Kellett Capital Management as a managing director.
The real estate investment and fund management business calculates that OECD pension funds will allocate $440bn to real estate over the next five years. But the firm warns that aging populations and vulnerable bond markets should be met with further allocations to income-producing real estate.
John Klopp and Olivier de Poulpiquet become both joint CEO’s and CIO’s of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, the real estate investment business of Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley. Both were recruited for other roles by the bank earlier this year.
Why the agreement between Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Blackstone to merge its Asia operations is the best outcome for the bank’s LPs. PERE magazine September 2010 issue
The New York-based private equity and real estate giant has reportedly tied up a joint venture with residential developer Great Eagle to make its first residential investments in China. The joint venture is eyeing the development of more than 1,000 homes in the port city of Dalian.