Towards Greater Transparency in Real Estate Private Equity Funds
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- Market Studies
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Overview: The real estate private equity funds are forcing real estate companies to take a hard look at greater transparency and standardization in their disclosures and also to work towards establishing performance benchmarks. In setting the context for the paper’s recommendations, it might be helpful to examine the origin and evolution of real estate private equity funds. The paper highlights two important ways in which real estate private equity funds have changed financing patterns in the real estate industry. First, they brought about structural improvements in the way investors approached the industry. The other important change real estate private equity funds brought about was that along with their investors, the fund sponsors invested anywhere between 2% and 25% in the properties. The article also provides a checklist of suggestions for these funds. Hence, this research and these recommendations could push real estate equity funds in the same direction.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jul 2002 | Pages: 1
