Subject: International (INTL)

Houston Business Journal Construction is underway on a 116,500-square-foot medical-office building in Houston. Healthpeak Properties Inc. is developing the five-story property at 7500 Fannin St. It already is 36 percent preleased and will include a parking garage that's being built ...

Auction.com has formed a venture that will provide it access to some 2.6 million Chinese-speaking investors in China and elsewhere around the world. Its venture with Juwai.com, a Chinese property listing service, will allow it to market its property listings ...

By John Covaleski, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Writer Vico Capital of Ireland, a private equity investor with $2 billion under management, is seeking trophy office investments in major U.S. markets. It is scouting for property in Washington, D.C., New ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportApollo Real Estate Advisors has raised $630 million for investment in real estate in India. The New York investment firm is partnering with India's Sun Group to manage the investment vehicle, called Sun-Apollo Real Estate ...

An investment fund put together by Goldman Sachs and Perry Real Estate Partners has paid $237 million for the 413-room Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino in Aruba.The property was acquired from Plant Hotel NV, an Aruban hotel owner whose ...

Conference sessions on commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations don't only draw crowds in the United States.The Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, which drew some 450 attendees to its first stand-alone conference on CDOs in the U.S., attracted nearly 200 attendees ...

The Mills Corp. has agreed to sell its interest in three of its shopping centers for $981 million, allowing it to raise $500 million of net proceeds.The three properties, Vaughan Mills in Ontario, Canada, St. Enoch Centre in Glasgow, Scotland ...

The Japanese real estate company is developing an investment management platform, including in the United States, through which it will make core and value-add investments on behalf of Japanese institutional investors.

The 10-year veteran of GE, who built the firm's mortgage-lending unit into a $7 billion-a-year business, is moving to Royal Bank of Canada where he'll start a conduit-lending unit.

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportHypo Real Estate Bank International has issued a $341.4 million synthetic CMBS transaction backed effectively by debt on three office buildings in the United States.The transaction, Estate US-1, is structured in a way that allows ...