Blackstone appoints Janice Lin as head of real estate business in Canada
Blackstone is expanding its presence in Canada by establishing a Blackstone Real Estate office in Toronto.
The company has appointed Janice Lin to lead its...
Brookfield to buy Watermark Lodging Trust for $3.8bn
Brookfield Asset Management is acquiring Watermark Lodging Trust, a self-managed non-traded real estate investment trust(REIT) with a portfolio of lodging assets, for $3.8 billion.
Watermark Lodging...
Heitman buys Hong Kong logistics asset for cold storage facility conversion
Heitman has acquired an approximately 100,000 square foot Hong Kong logistics asset located in the strategic industrial precinct of Fanling at No.6 Yip Cheong...
Colliers to buy 65% stake in US real estate investment firm Rockwood
Colliers has agreed to invest in Rockwood Capital, a US real estate investment management firm with more than $12 billion of assets under management....
Amazon signs office leases to add 2,500 jobs in Southern California
Amazon plans to add more than 2,500 corporate and technology jobs over the coming years in Southern California.
The company will expand its Tech...
Bain Capital, Barber Partners form $500m cold storage joint venture
Barber Partners and Bain Capital’s Special Situations strategy have formed a programmatic joint venture to build approximately 15 Class-A, state-of-the-art cold storage warehouse projects...
Rockpoint, ADIA form $2bn industrial real estate platform
Boston-based real estate investment management firm Rockpoint has formed an industrial real estate platform with a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment...
Australian commercial real estate activity reaches $11.7bn in Q1
Australian commercial property sales continued on a positive path at the start of 2022 as dealmaking edged ahead of the total from a year...
VICI Properties completes acquisition of MGM Growth Properties
VICI Properties has completed its previously announced acquisition of MGM Growth Properties (MGP) for $17.2 billion.
Simultaneous with the closing of the MGP acquisition,...
Breakthrough raises $3bn for life science real estate fund
Breakthrough Properties, a joint venture of Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital, has raised $3 billion for its Breakthrough Life Science Property Fund.
The $3 billion raised in fund...
BioMed Realty grows Seattle portfolio with South Lake Union acquisition
BioMed Realty has made its second investment in Seattle this quarter with the acquisition of 1101 Westlake, the 154,000-square-foot lab capable building located in...
Kennedy Wilson pays $418m for three Mountain West multifamily communities
Kennedy Wilson has acquired three wholly owned multifamily communities in the Mountain West region in three separate off-market transactions for $418 million.
The company acquired...
