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Arshiya Khullar

Arshiya Khullar is a senior Asia reporter for PERE. Based in Hong Kong, Arshiya covers news and trends in the private real estate markets across Asia-Pacific. In 2016, Arshiya was awarded the prestigious State Street Institutional Press Award for the best newcomer financial journalist in the region for an investigative story on how Anbang Insurance's failed pursuit of Starwood Hotels & Resorts worsened the reputation of the whole Chinese investor community in the global marketplace. In the past, Arshiya's bylines have also appeared on CNN.com, Quartz, Eurogamer, Lloyd's List and StartupsHK.
The New York-based firm believes the western regions in the US could represent roughly half of its total investment activity over time.
The firm had over $20bn of inflows in Q2 2020, which includes significant capital raised for the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies IV.
The St Louis-based manager has reached a first close on its fourth fund focused on the commercial real estate net lease and build-to-suit sectors.
Asia-Pacific real estate funds recorded the biggest year-on-year growth in terms of total capital raised in the first half of 2020.
Investing in operating companies is one of the ‘collaborative model’ strategies that the US pension giant hopes will help to cut costs, especially during the current disruption.
Opportunity Zones
The coronavirus’s devastating economic impact is expected to create a stronger case for opportunity zone multifamily investments. But the challenges have not gone away.
A growing number of US equity and debt managers are creating assets to serve housing needs of the middle- and lower-income renters disproportionately impacted by job losses due to the pandemic.
The Des Moines, Iowa-based fund manager’s business vertical focused on investing in real estate operating companies will resume operations in the US and hunt for debut deals in Europe.
Offices are facing a reckoning. For institutional managers, this means a re-evaluation of how investments in the sector will be underwritten.
Institutional investors and managers are grappling with the underwriting implications of pre-covid office working practices being dumped.
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