Subject: Joint ventures (JV)

Mitsubishi Corp.'s alternative asset-management unit is forming a venture with Five Mile Capital partners that will originate commercial mortgages in the United States that would be contributed to CMBS transactions. The venture, MC-FMC Commercial Real Estate Finance Management, aims to ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Developer Champion Real Estate Co. has teamed with Wilson Commercial Real Estate to make at least $200 million of retail property investments throughout California. Champion, which has developed or renovated more than $700 million ...

The California Public Employees' Retirement System has formed a venture with GI Partners that has committed $500 million of equity that will be used to acquire technology industry-related properties in major metropolitan areas across the country. The TechCore LLC venture ...

General Growth Properties Inc. and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are forming a venture that will purchase the Plaza Frontenac, an upscale shopping center in St. Louis with 482,000 square feet. The property, one of only nine in the ...

Phillips Edison-ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc. and CB Richard Ellis Investors have formed a venture that plans to invest more than $200 million to acquire shopping centers anchored by grocery stores and other necessity items retailers across the country. Phillips ...

Industrial Income Trust has formed a venture with an unidentified institutional investor, allowing it to bolster its investment activity and diversify its sources of capital. Industrial Income is a non-traded REIT that is sponsored by Dividend Capital Group of Denver. ...

Starwood Capital Group has formed a joint venture with East West Partners of Avon, Colo., to develop commercial properties in select urban areas nationwide. Assets that East West contributed to the venture include sites in the 20-acre Union Station transit ...

Cushman & Wakefield, which expects to handle the sale of some $3 billion of apartment properties this year, has formed an alliance that allows it to offer its clients agency financing originated by Walker & Dunlop. In return, Walker & ...

Dune Real Estate Partners has formed a venture with TDI Real Estate Holdings that aims to acquire and develop apartment properties throughout the country. The venture, which could make $1 billion of investments, said it was looking to take advantage ...

LoanCore has formed a venture with Jefferies Group and its long-time investor, the Government of Singapore Investment Corp., that will originate commercial real estate debt. LoanCore is led by Mark Finerman, who previously headed RBS Greenwich Capital's real estate finance ...