Christie Ou
This is the second senior resignation in Blackstone’s real estate team in China in the past month, following country head Tim Wang.
The firm will be the only industrial park developer participating in the country’s REIT program, where it plans to launch a 2 billion yuan vehicle.
As North American pensions fade out of the top of the ranking, insurers are emerging as the new powerhouses for real estate investments globally.
The firm has hired four investment bankers in the past two years to help fuel its growth in new strategies such as private equity and data centers.
While the inability to conduct due diligence remains investors’ top concern, managers are playing a bigger role than ever to mitigate the risk and find the right strategies for them
The region’s diversity of currency, regulations and valuation approaches are among the obstacles to making performance reporting more uniform.
ADIA is the largest investor in the vehicle with additional commitments made by other global institutional investors and the firm's flagship fund.
The industrial real estate heavyweight plans to grow the Japan-focused fund’s AUM from $2.6bn to more than $10bn in the next several years.
Over 70% of larger institutions plan to raise or maintain their real estate allocation to the country in 2021, according to a new JLL report.
Following its expansion into Vietnam and South Korea, the firm is eyeing Thailand and Japan as the next destinations.