French real estate agent Awon Group has joined forces with Soros Real Estate Partners (SREP).
SREP is taking a 45% stake in the consultancy firm. It has put 118m (FFr771m) at the disposal of Awon Group to be invested on the real estate market.
Awon Group is also the AIG fund’s exclusive representative. AIG has invested 762m (FFr5bn) in recent acquisitions. Awon Group has a 10m (FFr65m) turnover, which comes from asset management, rents and asset arbitration.
Les Echos, 19 October 2000 p65