REAL ESTATE – Mike McCook, senior real estate investment officer at the $183bn (euro) California Public Employees’ Retirement Scheme, is to retire.
An official at the Sacramento-based fund told Âé¶¹Ó³» Real Estate that McCook is to retire from State service.
Earlier this month McCook was in the news, when he disclosed the fund was looking to invest up to $400m in Chinese housing over the next few years.
In the meantime, the fund has announced almost $200m in real estate purchases, in Washington State and Texas.
It invested $109.8m in the 41-acre, WestPark office-warehouse complex in Redmond east of Seattle. This is 70% leased, with 80 tenants.
And it has also bought Estates at Cougar Mountain for $46.3m.
The fund also purchased an office property in Houston’s central business district for $41.7m.


