Robin Marriott

AREA Property Partners has teamed up with F&C REIT to buy a package of properties once owned by Dawnay Day, the property investor whose subsidiary companies were placed into administration last year.

Richard Cotton, a 13-year stalwart of real estate investment banking at JP Morgan Cazenove in London is leaving to join Greenwich-based Forum Partners.

Pete Reilly, head of JPMorgan's expanding European real estate effort, believes the current environment will yield epic returns. His London-based group boasts a relatively healthy investment programme amid the financial wreckage, and Reilly is not shy about taking advantage of this imbalance. PERE Magazine March 2009 issue

The pan European firm has made a debut investment for its new €1 billion opportunity fund by acquiring Goldman Sachs' stake in a listed French property company. PERE Magazine March 2009 issue

Benson Elliot has raised €510m for its second vehicle. Marc Mogull explains why peaks in stock exchanges globally at the start of 2008 suggested it was time to go back to investors. PERE Magazine March 2009 issue.

The US distressed investor is reportedly interested in rescuing the UK’s largest estate agency from the brink of collapse. Apollo acquired the firm at the height of the UK housing bubble for £1bn.

US distressed investor Oaktree Capital Management is reportedly interested in rescuing the UK’s largest estate agency from the brink of collapse. Apollo acquired the firm at the height of the UK housing bubble for £1bn.

London-based Geni Capital and Dubai's AREIT Management say the closed ended opportunity fund aims to launch with at least $100 million, with a cornerstone investor already having been lined up.

GE Real Estate has sold 29 regional properties in Sweden into an investment company in which it retains a stake. It will continue to manage the assets, hoping to double the size of the portfolio within three to five years. PERE Magazine February 2009 issue

The prospect of Turkey's 70m consumers spending in a collection of shiny new shopping malls across the country, coupled with strong demand among retailers, has proved attractive to CPPIB. PERE magazine February 2009 issue