PGIM to secure $60 mn from Seoul office sale to Keppel

PGIM Inc., the asset management arm of US-based Prudential Financial Inc., is set to pocket about 70 billion won ($60 million) in capital gains from i...

Hana resells $50 mn equity in Paris office; to lend on France asset

Hana resells $50 mn equity in Paris office; to lend on France asset

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has recently completed the resale of its 58 billion-won ($50 million) equity investment in a Paris office building ...

Mirae Asset plans $500 mn bond issue; invests in HK office debt

Mirae Asset plans $500 mn bond issue; invests in HK office debt

Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. Ltd. plans to raise more than $500 million in a global bond issuance early next month to fund its global investments, after ann...

Hanwha Investment buys Prague office complex for $286 mn

Hanwha Investment buys Prague office complex for $286 mn

Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has acquired a five-building office complex in Prague for 325 billion won ($286 million), as South Korean ...

Keppel Group unit set to net $250 mn from value-add deals in Seoul

Keppel Group unit set to net $250 mn from value-add deals in Seoul

Alpha Investment Partners, part of Singapore-based Keppel Capital, is set to secure over $250 million from selling two Seoul office buildings for arou...

JR AMC acquires $194 mn French office building for Hana Fin

JR AMC acquires $194 mn French office building for Hana Fin

South Korea's JR AMC Co. Ltd. has acquired a commercial building west of Paris for 220 billion won ($194 million) on behalf of Hana Financial Invest...

CalSTRS-POBA venture extends $64 mn loan on Atlanta office project

CalSTRS-POBA venture extends $64 mn loan on Atlanta office project

A joint venture between the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) has provided a ...

Hana Fin-led group poised to buy $185 mn Prague office complex

Hana Fin-led group poised to buy $185 mn Prague office complex

A consortium led by Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Hana Alternative Asset Management Co. Ltd. has been chosen as the preferred buyer for a thr...

Brookfield raises $147 mn from Korea for US office portfolio: report

Brookfield raises $147 mn from Korea for US office portfolio: report

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has secured $147.2 million in a mezzanine tranche from South Korea’s Kiwoom Asset Management Co. Ltd. on a US office ...

Hana Alternative appoints ex-NPS investment head as CEO

Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. Ltd., part of a top South Korean banking group, has appointed Hee-seok Kim, a former global investment head...

Keppel likely to buy three Seoul buildings in $400 mn package deal

Keppel likely to buy three Seoul buildings in $400 mn package deal

The South Korean unit of Singapore-based asset manager Keppel Capital was picked as the preferred buyer for three Seoul office buildings in a package ...

Two French offices draw Korean bidders in $1.2 bn deals

Two French offices draw Korean bidders in $1.2 bn deals

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is nearing a 370 billion won ($330 million) deal to buy an office complex near Paris, while a South Korean ...

Korea Investment launches $50 mn retail fund for Milan office purchase

Korea Investment launches $50 mn retail fund for Milan office purchase

Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. is seeking to raise 55 billion won ($49 million) from individual investors to fund its 124 billion won ($11...

United Partners invests $62 mn in Dallas office building mortgage

United Partners invests $62 mn in Dallas office building mortgage

South Korea-based United Partners Asset Management Co. Ltd. has invested about 70 billion won ($62 million) in a senior debt on a three-building offic...

KIC reaps $48 mn from London office building sale

KIC reaps $48 mn from London office building sale

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has secured 37 million pounds ($48 million) in proceeds from the recent 107 million-pound sale of a London office b...

Korean firms snap up Poland office building for $162 mn

Korean firms snap up Poland office building for $162 mn

Two small South Korean financial services companies have acquired a landmark office building in central Warsaw for 183 billion won ($162 million) in t...

NPS’ risk management head to spearhead investment strategy

NPS’ risk management head to spearhead investment strategy

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed risk management center head Seong-Tae Park as new head of investment strategy on Dec. 8, a week...

French PE Ardian opens 4th Asian office in Seoul

French PE Ardian opens 4th Asian office in Seoul

Paris-based private equity house Ardian has opened a Seoul office as its fourth Asian base, as South Korean institutional investors such as pension fu...

Korean firms in talks to buy Credit Suisse’s Canary Wharf office

Korean firms in talks to buy Credit Suisse’s Canary Wharf office

A consortium of South Korean financial institutions has been in exclusive talks to buy the Canary Wharf headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in a deal ...

Ascendas buys $69 mn Seoul hotel from KTCU-backed fund

Ascendas buys $69 mn Seoul hotel from KTCU-backed fund

Singapore’s Ascendas Hospitality Trust has acquired a hotel in downtown Seoul for 77.5 billion won ($69 million) from a South Korean real estate fund ...

NPS’ investment strategy head offers to quit

Investment strategy head and No. 2 of the National Pension Service’s (NPS) Investment Management department Soo-Cheol Lee has tendered his resignation...

Meritz Sec nets $42 mn from uncompleted Zalando office sale

Meritz Sec nets $42 mn from uncompleted Zalando office sale

Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. has reaped 37 million euros ($42 million) in proceeds from a recent sale of a new headquarters of German online retailer Za...

Denver office buildings draw yield-hungry Korean funds

Denver office buildings draw yield-hungry Korean funds

A consortium of Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. and Hyundai Asset Management Co. Ltd. has recently closed a $238 million acquisition of an office t...

[Interview] Korean office building market set for further growth: Savills

[Interview] Korean office building market set for further growth: Savills

South Korea’s office building market is poised to continue its record-breaking growth, buoyed by heavy money inflows from overseas investors and the c...

IGIS Asset closes $110 mn purchase of Nestle's Spanish head office

IGIS Asset closes $110 mn purchase of Nestle's Spanish head office

IGIS Asset Management Co. Ltd. has acquired an office building in Barcelona used as Nestle Corporation's Spanish headquarters for 95.6 million euros (...

KKR, NPS to invest $700 mn in $1.9 bn Seoul real estate project

KKR, NPS to invest $700 mn in $1.9 bn Seoul real estate project

Private equity firm KKR & Co and South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will make an equity investment of 800 billion won ($704 million) in ...

NPS names ex-equity division head as new CIO

NPS names ex-equity division head as new CIO

The National Pension Service (NPS) appointed Hyo-Joon Ahn, former head of global public market and domestic equity divisions of the $565 billion pensi...

Microsoft UK’s head office sold to Korean investors for $130 mn

Microsoft UK’s head office sold to Korean investors for $130 mn

A consortium of London-based Valesco Group and South Korea’s AIP Asset Management has acquired Microsoft’s headquarter office in Britain for 100 milli...

Shinhan Alternative invests $300 mn in debt on Brooklyn office complex

Shinhan Alternative invests $300 mn in debt on Brooklyn office complex

Shinhan Alternative Investment Management Inc. has invested $300 million in mezzanine debts against Dumbo Heights, an office campus in Brooklyn, on be...

NH Investment named as preferred buyer of Seoul Square in $873 mn deal

NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. was chosen as the preferred buyer for a landmark Seoul office building, according to the South Korean brokerag...

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