Coronavirus

The firm expects its industry peers to be stretched from a liquidity perspective, and plans to take advantage of the market dislocation.

Otherwise, US private real estate mogul Tom Barrack says, widespread margin calls could trigger the next financial crisis – and it’s hard to disagree.

Colony Capital’s CEO calls for lender leniency to avert a mortgage market collapse, triggering a financial crisis.

The firm plans to introduce its first real estate debt offering after rebranding its property business this month.

The $828bn sovereign wealth fund had already been in the market before the outbreak of covid-19, which has only added further strain to the challenged sector.

After its most recent transaction, Harrison Street still has $2bn of dry powder to deploy in healthcare real estate through the coronavirus disruption.

UBS' real estate and private markets business analyzes the areas of private real estate that will bear the biggest short-term impacts of a world under lockdown.

The sector has seen one of the sharpest drops in performance since the outbreak, according to data unveiled at a Cushman & Wakefield webinar.

Industry professionals in the quarantined country insist no one is panicking yet – both because of strong fundamentals and the hope the lockdown is short-lived.

Are private asset classes better positioned to weather the crisis? Our senior editorial teams covering PE, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries provide insight.