Transactions
Hines buys Silicon Valley office campus
Hines, a global real estate firm, has purchased the Clearview Business Park, a 380,000-square-foot, six…
People
Macerich CEO Arthur Coppola to retire
Arthur Coppola announced that he will retire from his position as chairman and CEO of…
People
KCERA appoints Daryn Miller as new CIO
The Kern County (Calif.) Employees’ Retirement Association has appointed Daryn Miller as the retirement association’s…
Research
2018 sees flight to safety among international real estate investors
Sentiment among international commercial property toward high-risk real estate investment strategies has dramatically fallen over the past 12 months, according to BrickVest.
Research
Investment market for German retail real estate off to modest start to the year
Around €1.6 billion ($1.98 billion) was invested in German retail properties in the first three months of 2018, according to CBRE. Compared with the strong result in the year-earlier quarter, the transaction volume contracted sharply by 56 percent.
Featured Event
2018 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Infrastructure
VIP Infrastructure (formerly known as Institutional Investing in Infrastructure – i3) brings together institutional investors and…
Resource Center
In Focus: Christy Gahr on fund terms and structures
Glossary, videos, podcasts, research in the Resource Center
Transactions
Partners Group, Atlas Capital acquire N.Y. mixed-use property for $400m
Square Mile Capital has sold its stake in the Factory Building in Long Island City,…
Transactions
Recent commercial real estate transactions
Transactions reported this week included a portfolio acquisition in Philadelphia. Apartment Investment and Management Co.…
Fundraising
Stockbridge holds $355m final close for value fund
Stockbridge Core and Value Advisors has held its final close for the third fund in…
Research
RETAIL: Walmart leads Amazon in online grocery shopping
A new option for online purchasing has been grocery shopping. Despite these new online grocery options, Coresight Research in its “U.S. online grocery consumer survey” found that online grocery market retailers do not have full-shop customers. And although Amazon has the most online grocery shoppers, it is established grocery retailers such as Walmart that are pulling in consumers looking to complete bigger-basket, full-assortment grocery shops.
Investors
U.S.-China trade tensions in perspective
Financial markets globally have been rattled in recent weeks by escalating rhetoric of a possible trade war between the United States and China. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have essentially exchanged barbs concerning billions of dollars in possible steel and aluminum tariffs, as well as potential tariffs on a host of other commodities, such as wine, nuts, soybeans, pork, and sorghum.
