Razak Musah Baba
Raz joined the IPE editorial team in 2017 as news editor of IPE Real Assets. He has 15 years of experience as a financial journalist, having worked for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal where he worked as an equities reporter covering corporate news.
He later covered consumer finance and moved on to become a leisure reporter and helped manage the London corporate news and small-cap desk.
Aside from real estate and infrastructure, he enjoys discussing African traditional religion and historiography.
Contact info
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 3465 9300
- Email:
- razak.baba@ipe.com
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Pair launch vehicle to partner and transact in the real estate secondaries market
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Welltower exits outpatient medical buildings sector
NewsAres Real Estate and Slate AM buy €300m Polish retail park portfolio
Trei Real Estate sells 36 recently developed, fully occupied, convenience-led retail parks
NewsBrookfield/Cameco-owned Westinghouse secures US nuclear construction deal
Deal facilitates the deployment of at least $80bn reactors in the US
NewsGreat Portland sells London W1 asset to Royal London for £250m
Sale of the fully-let 1 Newman Street asset delivers 4.48% net initial yield
NewsAres, Makarora to take Plymouth Industrial REIT private in $2.1bn deal
Pair pay 50% premium to acquire Plymouth Industrial
NewsFederated Hermes takes majority stake in FCP to enter US property market
Manager buys 80% of FCP for up to $331m to anchor US real estate push
NewsURW joins APG as minority partner as Nuveen exits St James Quarter
URW buys 25% stake and will take over management of the Scottish mixed-use complex
NewsMirova European energy transition fund secures €1.2bn at second close
MET6 surpasses the halfway point of its €2bn target
NewsMadison Realty Capital provides $654m loan in the US to 2020 Acquisitions
Loan funds both the refinancing and new construction for Central 9 Logistics Park
NewsIngka Investments to buy Södra’s Baltics forest holdings for €720m
Divestment allows Södra to focus on its Swedish members’ forest estates
NewsL&G to invest £2bn in UK housing and infrastructure by 2030
Mansion House Accord signatory backs regional growth
NewsNEST kicks off £5bn private markets drive with £85m UK infrastructure deals
Commits to broadband and energy-from-waste projects via IFM
NewsArcus-backed Abyss to buy 33 vessels via Frøy Group carve-out
Abyss expands salmon farming service offerings in Norway with acquisition
NewsCellnex to sell French data centre business to Vauban for €391m
Disposal enables firm to streamline operations and focus on core infrastructure
NewsArdian secures $20bn commitments for European infrastructure investments
Ardian Infrastructure Fund VI reached its $13.5bn hard cap
NewsBlackRock consortium buys Aligned Data Centers in $40bn deal
Macquarie sells Aligned Data Centers to MGX, Temasek and KIA-backed investor group
NewsMacquarie buys OMERS and AIMCo’s London City Airport stakes
Macquarie now holds 75% interest in London City Airport
NewsAIP takes 50% stake in CIP’s Coalburn 2 battery project in Scotland
The 500MW UK battery project is set to be Europe’s largest
NewsUS timber rivals Rayonier and PotlatchDeltic merge in all-share $7bn deal
Merger creates second-largest publicly traded timber and wood products company in North America
