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...Real estate and venture capital make a lot of sense for those people that can stand the illiquidity of those investments,” he says....
...Global real estate has enjoyed a boom since the financial crisis, but there are growing signs of trouble....
...Sangeeta Prasad is chief executive of Mahindra Lifespace Developers, the real estate arm of the Mahindra Group engaged in creating new cities and industrial clusters....
...For private equity investors, the platforms are also a valuable source of information on the country’s real estate and NPL markets....
...For example, when the government introduced property purchase restrictions to contain real estate prices in 2011 the impact on the financial system and the real economy was limited....
...Other considerations included changes in Dinant’s credit profile and its involvement in a controversy over real estate ownership.” The heat is now on the World Bank and IFC....
...Shrewd moment: Cemented his reputation for turning disaster into profit when he made $1.15bn betting against US real estate....
...Based on the other parts we can identify, including Saudi real estate and a basket of U.S. and Middle East equities, we value his Kingdom Holding stake at $10.6 billion, or $9.3 billion less than what the...
...Mr Bonderman led an investment group that put more than $7bn into the troubled bank in early 2008, arguing the opportunity was similar to 20 years earlier when the market last seized up over bad real estate...
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...The stores are to be acquired by BRE DDR Retail Holdings, a joint venture between Blackstone Real Estate Advisors and DDR Corp. The deal is expected to close in June 2012....
...Consumer real estate, for example, lost another $1.1bn during the quarter....
...Dubai has launched a fund focused on its domestic real estate market as the government moves to underpin property prices, which have fallen two-thirds from their 2008 peak....
...Real estate could be a problem for credit-constrained local governments, he acknowledges, as falling sales eventually begin to bite....
...This is merely a description of a medium-sized bubble – not the real-estate madness we have actually witnessed. Should that not be the central scenario?...
...Related links: Talf-tastic CMBS – FT Alphaville Reggie Middleton personally congratulates Goldman [on DDR deal] – ZeroHedge Talking Talf on commercial real estate – FT Alphaville...
...In particular, looming problems in commercial real estate, with more than $2,000bn of debt maturing by 2013, need a stronger beating....
...Falling commercial real estate rents have US property companies looking to the sun to pad their depleted revenue streams....
...“The DDR transaction represents a partial crossing of a very long bridge leading toward a healthier commercial real estate market,” Joseph Baksic, senior analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, said in a report...
...Commercial real estate prices have fallen 43 per cent from their peak in October 2007, according to an index compiled by Moody’s Investors Service....
...Behold the first new CMBS deal in over a year: (From Structured Finance News, click to enlarge) `DDR’ is Developers Diversified Realty Corp., an Ohio-based shopping mall Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit...
...She understood that the people who make a city creative need affordable real estate....
...Really, it should have been “Goldman, real-estate developers hope Fed will take a punt on shopping centers, help refinance debt”....
...Bankers have quietly expressed their reservations, and it remains to be seen whether financing will be available, given Dubai’s continuing real estate and debt crisis....
...Of that $18bn total, HRH’s holding in Kingdom spoke for $7.9bn. —- Back to the release… Moreover, Kingdom Holding Company will continue to pursue the development of its two mega real estate projects in...
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