The Swiss investment bank has replaced its top two real estate executives as part of efforts to get its $30bn US platform back on track.
Female professionals in private real estate often fail to adopt one key practice that can help them advance to the senior level, says one executive.
The capital advisory firm is adding to an Asia business that started in the region in the private equity sector six years ago.
The firm has appointed former Westbrook Japan senior executive Akira Kosugi to lead its investments in the country.
Rainer Komenda, head of real estate funds at Bavaria’s Bayerische Versorgungskammer, tells Jonathan Brasse about how Germany’s biggest state pension provider is thinking about its real estate business as it views a downturn
David Skinner, one of the leading figures in the repositioning of the UK insurer's RE funds business, had worked at the organization for 12 years.
Turbulence in financial markets, less activity among established players and consolidation of lending teams are factors in the fall, according to Paragon Search Partners.
Megan Walters had joined the property services firm as head of research for Asia-Pacific capital markets in 2010, before being promoted in 2016.
Gillian Chee was only brought on board in May to help launch the firm’s first open-ended core fund in Asia.
BlackRock Real Estate’s long-serving executive in Asia-Pacific is officially leaving the firm next month, PERE has learned.