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A Houston-based investment firm is liquidating its $5.5 billion portfolio, and has traded an office building in Southeast Washington, D.C., at a notable discount amid the fire sale.  Lionstone Investments sold the 12-story, 225,000-square-foot property at 100 M Street SE to Onward Investors for $54 million, according to Bisnow, citing property records. Lionstone, alongside partner Hermes Real Estate, paid $79.8 million for the building back in 2014, per reports at the time. SEE ALSO: Chess Builders Buys UES Building Slated for Demolition for $50M A representative for Lionstone’s parent company, Columbia...

Alt: Broadening HorizonsThe company recently announced its new initiative, Alt, expanding access from private real estate to a wider array of alternative investments to individual investors. Alt provides investors access to multiple alternative asset classes, including high yield securitised real estate backed by pre-leased Grade A office assets in India, private real estate investments in Class A warehouses in the UK, publicly listed real estate including REITs in the US, Canada, UK, and EU, alongside Indian REITs, InvITs, and SM REITs and a Category II AIF targeting office and warehouse...

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Article contentVice chairman Brad Smith made the announcement at an event in Johannesburg on Thursday, ahead of an upcoming South African investment conference.The pledge adds to 20.4 billion rand that Microsoft has already invested in Africa’s most industrialized nation, and should give the economy a welcome boost.Article contentThe company said the money would pay for 50,000 young people’s certification exams in digital skills over the next 12 months to help “foster innovation, economic growth, and workforce development.”South Africa is seeking to shore up private investment in the country to accelerate...

Thursday, 6 March 2025 The Government of Canada is to lend AtkinsRéalis up to CAD304 million (USD212 million) over four years to support the development of next-generation Candu reactor technology, and has also announced millions of dollars in new funding commitments and support for nuclear projects in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario. A rendering of the Monark concept (Image: AtkinsRéalis) Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson announced that the government had entered into a preliminary agreement with AtkinsRéalis to finance up to half of the design costs of a "new,...

NEW YORK, NY: An aerial view One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan in New York City. (Photo by ... Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Getty Images If you’re thinking of developing a vertically integrated approach when investing in real estate, it can be helpful to understand how it works. Some investors opt for this strategy to gain a greater level of control over their investment. At the same time, the trade off is often that it can be challenging to scale. You might be so absorbed with one project that you aren’t...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.More than 100 Labour MPs and peers have urged British banks and fund managers to stop viewing all defence investments as “unethical”, as they seek to boost the UK’s domestic arms industry. Their open letter calls for the removal of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment requirements that “often wrongly exclude all defence investment as ‘unethical’”. It called for the banks to “sweep away ill-considered anti-defence rules” and turn on “the financial...

Monero continues to dominate the privacy coin sector, offering untraceable transactions and enhanced anonymity in a world of increasing financial surveillance. Recent regulatory debates surrounding privacy coins have only increased Monero’s relevance, as demand for censorship-resistant crypto solutions rises.The Haveno decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Monero has gained traction, allowing users to trade XMR without exposing their identity. Developers have also introduced RingCT improvements, boosting Monero’s privacy mechanisms and transaction efficiency.Monero’s dynamic block size and adaptive fees ensure network sustainability, preventing congestion issues that plague other blockchains. The project’s focus...

CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — There are questions about the future of jobs in New York created by the CHIPS and Science Act.Tuesday night in his address to Congress President Trump asked for the money to go elsewhere.The funding has become a multi-billion dollar investment in New York.“Your CHIPS act is a horrible, horrible thing; you should get rid of the CHIPS Act, and whatever is left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt,” said President Trump.Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers from New York disagree.“That's a major issue for...

Los Angeles-based real estate investment manager Brasa Capital Management has closed a new $582 million fund, its largest real estate fund to date, the company announced Tuesday. Brasa will devote the fund, called Brasa Real Estate Fund III, to investing in middle-market residential and commercial assets in the Western U.S. and Texas, the company said in its announcement.SEE ALSO: 400 Capital Management Closes Fourth Investment Fund With $1.39B in Commitments Eric Samek, founder and managing director at Brasa, told Commercial Observer the company benefited from “a majority of our existing...