Christie Ou
For a number of private real estate firms, the strategic importance of having platforms still outweighs the higher costs of acquiring them.
The industrial manager closed on three of the top 10 largest funds in the first half of the year, making it private real estate's biggest fundraiser during the period.
Andrew Schwartz, co-founder of Qualitas, says the offering will better enable the firm to meet the co-investment requirements of institutional investors.
The Hong Kong-based manager is assuming higher cap rates, higher construction costs and longer project delays as it evaluates real estate investments.
A significant amount of existing investors in GLP’s first China development fund have rolled into its new income vehicle.
Private equity real estate’s pivot to R&D has been a much more recent trend in the region compared with the West, as two high-profile investments show.
In an exclusive interview, Blackstone’s Chris Heady explains why the Australian casino operator was an attractive investment despite its legal troubles.
The executive left EQT after participating in the firm’s $1.8bn acquisition of Pennsylvania-based Exeter Property Group in 2021.
For many institutions, the key concern over selling assets is where to re-invest the equity in a highly competitive market.
The firm has made a trio of hires in the past three months following the launch of its regional core-plus fund, which has already invested $900m to date.