GreenOak founder Sonny Kalsi and COO Andrew Yoon gave the PERE CFO/COO audience key advice on the M&A process.
3 min read · 10 May 2019
UPS’s Judy McMahan and Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Alisa Mall explain how investors see women in real estate as a competitive advantage.
1 min read · 09 May 2019
Capital commitments to the investment program have been sluggish, and SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci blames it on a lack of clear regulation.
4 min read · 29 April 2019
For some of the delegates at MIPIM, the ‘retail train wreck’ is creating discounted opportunities across equity and debt.
3 min read · 14 March 2019
This week, about 700 private real estate executives spanning the sector’s investor, manager and advisor spectrums descended on Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt hotel for four unadulterated days of presentations, declarations and warnings from PERE’s nominated roster of speakers. But it was the warnings that sounded the loudest. There was a common thread among the warnings […]
3 min read · 07 March 2019
In a presentation at PERE Asia, the head of real estate at BPE Asia questioned the use of leverage by his competitors, suggesting similarities with pre-crisis behaviors.
2 min read · 07 March 2019
PERE sits down with the firm’s senior director of real assets to hear why this institutional money from the Lone Star state is pivoting away from commingled funds.
8 min read · 07 March 2019
So-called ‘disruptive technologies’ is impacting the way landlords and investors approach real estate investing and determine things like the ideal size, usage, layout and general amenities of their buildings. At PERE’s annual real estate conference in Hong Kong today, Mark Gabbay, chief investment officer and chief executive for Asia at the Chicago-based investment manager LaSalle […]
2 min read · 06 March 2019
To those institutional investors that place their real estate debt investments apart from their other real estate holdings, the boss of one of private real estate’s biggest firms says: don’t. “Where to place it?” Sonny Kalsi, co-founder and partner of GreenOak Real Estate, asked delegates at PERE’s Asia Summit in Hong Kong during the keynote […]
3 min read · 05 March 2019
At PERE’s European roundtable, a discussion of Europe held in the UK inevitably turns to debate over the UK in Europe. Brexit dominates political and economic discourse in Britain ahead of the putative March 29 deadline for the country to leave the EU. So when the five participants meet in London in February it is […]
10 min read · 05 March 2019