World Beat
Selling to the Sheikhs
It's a common real estate fantasy, but a good one. After years of struggling to unload a sinking portfolio, you find an Arabian investor who swoops in...
Deal Spigot Runs Dry in Europe
Asked to speculate about what would happen after he died, Louis XIV quipped, After me, the flood. But now that some latter-day sun kings in London and...
What's Next for Sovereign Funds?
When large foreign investors and sovereign wealth funds state-owned investment funds composed of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments came to...
No Place Like London
For years, fast-growing markets such as Shanghai and Istanbul were the best answer to most international investment questions. Now, as various parts of...
Good Morning, Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, U.S. prisoners of war used to refer sarcastically to the infamous Ho Loa prison as the Hanoi Hilton....
A Gusher of Arab Investment
Global real estate investment by Arab investors will nearly double this year, to $22 billion, say analysts with commercial real estate services firm Jones...
Interstate Proceeds With Caution in India
It's easy to understand why Interstate Hotels and Resorts and other Western developers see a subcontinent-sized opportunity in India. Not many countries...
Turning Istanbul-lish
Until recently, Istanbul occupied almost no space in the minds of most Western real estate investors. Turkey's largest city was one of those places that...
Winning the Gold War
Great real estate returns were probably not what Nikita Khrushchev, the 1960s-era Soviet leader, had in mind when he predicted that his country would...
Global Cooling for REITs
Like people coping with a harsh winter, U.S. real estate stock investors may be tempted to think the time is right to move their money to a balmier climate....
