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...This year, though, the Trust is heading into the urban centre of Manchester to open a property that sits on the doorstep of Aviva Studios, home of Factory International and Manchester International Festival...
...The Royal Family also invested in some of the most luxurious real estate in the world. Dubai today is now full of skyscrapers and gated communities....
...The elder Mr Lee is clearly expecting them to work together and keep the business focused on local real estate....
...“In real estate there is a registered deed and even if it’s owned in a name of a corporation, there is somewhat of an ability to trace ownership....
...The basic shape of a reorganized Caesars has the company transforming into a real estate investment trust (REIT) where the casino unit pays rent to the other unit....
...estate investment trust Construction cost: $1.6bn Last sold: never Property is gradually evolving from being an alternative asset class into the mainstream....
...(Financial Times) Big investors replace banks in $4.2tn repo market: Big investors, including hedge funds, mutual funds and real estate trusts, are replacing banks as the biggest users of the overnight...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Just weeks earlier, Dubai Holding appointed a board at Dubai Properties, the conglomerate’s real estate arm....
...Nama controls several thousand apartments around Dublin and has looked at setting up a real estate investment trust (REIT) to move them off their books....
...Nakheel (the real estate developer) has a new board with a new chairman....
...The emirate coughed up $20bn in direct and indirect bail-out loans to its neighbour but it also suffered a wave of contagion as real estate prices, largely driven by Dubai-style speculative off-plan sales...
...It is expected to become a world-leading tourist, business and residential centre and offer the best investment opportunity in the Middle East. Here’s what that tower is supposed to look like....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Still, bankers say its investment arms, Dubai International Capital and Dubai Group, could face more financial problems than its commercial wing, which spans hospitality, business parks and real estate....
...Over the past six months, it has invested in US real estate, hotel and technology companies. The strategies of several other investment funds are also difficult to pin down....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...“Over the past four years, prices of real estate have gone up four to five times.” Companies also are starting to feel the squeeze, as wage bills and raw material costs are pushed up....
...According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, 2007 hit $56bn before the Blackstone-Hilton announcement – driven predominantly by private equity groups taking hotel real estate investment trusts private....
...The backdrop of a weaker US real estate market and deteriorating prospects for both residential and to a lesser extent commercial property markets in the UK and pockets of western Europe all suggests that...
...Financier Robert Tchenguiz has amassed a 15 per cent take in the company and wants management to place its property portfolio into a real estate investment trust....
...Starwood Capital was founded as a real-estate investment trust in 1991 by Mr Sternlicht, who went on to create Starwood, the US hotel and resort group....
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