Arshiya Khullar
The life science and student housing sectors saw record transactions last year, and that lead to a notable string of wins in the 2020 awards.
Blackstone has swept the region’s awards, bagging six wins, including Firm of the Year, Industry Figure of the Year, Deal of the Year and Capital Raise of the Year.
Hines has won two global awards for its trend-defining mandate with South Korea’s NPS, while Blackstone takes home several wins for executing 2020’s largest private real estate transaction.
Chief executive and founder James Koman said the firm has been utilizing the term – now growing in industry popularity – for the past decade.
The South Korean public pension fund’s chief investment officer explains why he is comparatively more bullish on the real estate sector than other asset classes.
The firm's new head of global listed real assets believes certain office REITs could still generate 10-15% IRRs over the next several years.
The firm’s recent realization activities include a successful REIT listing in India earlier this month, which ended up being eight times oversubscribed.
Waterton Residential Property Venture XIV will have a value-add strategy, targeting multifamily rental investments in diverse markets across the US.
Recent dizzying stock market volatility is unlikely to override the steadily growing appeal of real estate equities as a long-term, high performing asset class in an institutional investor’s portfolio.
International capital accounted for over 45% of total transaction volume in the sector last year, according to data shared by CBRE.