Private Equity

Private-equity firm Insight Venture Partners has made its latest bet in the commercial real estate technology space, acquiring a New York-based software company focused...

Swedish private equity firm EQT closed its largest infrastructure fund to date, as market experts worry that the industry is overpaying for assets. EQT...

Life insurance settlements and litigation finance are gaining steam in the private equity market, and some investors are focusing on financing real estate lawsuits....

The developers behind Times Square’s TSX Broadway have raised more than $780 million in new equity, valuing the entertainment-and-hotel project in excess of $2...

Apollo Global Management plans to start raising a new real estate investment fund. The private equity company has held talks with potential investors for...

There’s an eyebrow-raising issue playing out in the private equity world right now. While funds have pulled back on the amount of money they’re...

Billionaire Dan Och’s hedge fund is looking to raise a $2 billion real estate fund, its largest investment vehicle targeting real estate yet. Och-Ziff...

The Carlyle Group plans to spin out its China-focused real estate team as investor appetites waned for a property fund dedicated to the country,...

Party Girl once went by a different name. The 205-foot, eight-cabin yacht once belonged to Askar Alshinbayev, a Kazakh energy and banking tycoon who...

Merger mania is taking its toll on the real estate fund management industry, as firms fight over more selective institutional clients. Bavaria-based Patrizia Immobilien,...

Many of America’s biggest private equity firms are at a turning point. Founders are looking to pass off the reigns to a new generation...

Savanna completed the raise of nearly $600 million for a new value-add fund, the private-equity firm’s largest fund to date. The Midtown-based firm headed...

Though all the trappings that historically indicate a boom in retail are accounted for — consumer confidence, low unemployment and a growing economy —...

The country’s big public pension plans are increasingly unhappy about the high fees fund managers charge them. The question is: do they have any...

The meaning of the three letters in CIM Group’s name is one of real estate’s best-kept secrets. But it might as well stand for...

Private real estate funds have more money to spend than ever before, but that’s not necessarily good news for the real estate market.

After raising a record $15.8 billion for a global real estate fund, investment giant Blackstone Group is planning to gather more money for a...

Real estate investors are much happier with their returns than in past years but are also anxious over valuations, according to a new survey...

Real estate funds are receiving more investment from pension funds, endowments and institutional investors than at any point since the property bust, with a...

Blackstone Group is looking to raise $15 billion of equity for a new global property fund. That amount would be a record for such a...