Staff Writer

Rents have bottomed out across many global markets, making the sector more attractive from an investment standpoint, says PGIM Real Estate’s Sebastiano Ferrante.

Focusing on debt and the undersupplied Australian residential market is supporting capital raising and returns, says Andrew Schwartz, group managing director, co-founder and chief investment officer at Qualitas.

Investors remained disciplined in 2023, but DNE’s resilience enabled it to capital raise and expand its portfolio, says Dongping Sun, chairman and chief executive officer.

Slate Asset Management’s founding partner Brady Welch discusses raising capital to close the largest property deal in Germany amid a tough transaction market.

Social and environmental gains are foundations of success, says Marius Schöner, managing director, head of EMEA residential operator division at CBRE Investment Management.

Market dislocation means lenders to Asia-Pacific real estate can hit equity returns, say Gaw Capital’s Kenneth Gaw and Foster Lee, but private credit will remain a valid strategy once the dust settles.

Australia’s population growth, combined with the ongoing withdrawal of its banks from commercial real estate debt, is spawning opportunities for alternative lenders, say Qualitas’s Mark Power and Dean Winterton.