Evelyn Lee

Key factors are now in place to support a long-predicted real estate recovery, according to LaSalle’s Brian Klinksiek and Dominic Silman.

The Canadian pension plan’s head of real estate says to bring ‘better alpha,’ one should avoid a real estate versus infrastructure approach.

The Canadian pension’s real estate head said an increased focus on alpha has myriad implications for how it invests in the asset class.

Amid ongoing volatility, overseas capital has gone from redlining the world’s largest property market to returning to it half a year later.

As StepStone and Greykite’s €1.5bn recapitalization shows, some of the most compelling deal opportunities are coming from non-real estate sponsors.

The anticipated inflows are more than triple the amount from a year ago, according to the firm’s head of European investment strategy.

For reasons good and bad, Europe’s largest economy had many tongues wagging at the Messe München this week.

The manager of Allianz’s $89bn real estate mandate said the industry needs to be strategic about luring investors back to the asset class.

The European manager’s unification of the two real estate strategies comes after the launch of the parent platform two years ago.

The real estate arm of the Swedish private equity firm previously was among a handful of top managers without an executive in the key role.

The New York-based business will specialize in leadership recruitment as well as the ‘purposeful restructuring’ of teams.

The turnover of property chiefs at Canada’s largest pensions coincides with the investors’ declining allocations to the asset class.

The issue has fallen down the industry’s priority list, but other groups are still holding property owners accountable for their climate actions.

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Blackstone’s dominance aside, little else has remained the same about the industry’s largest capital raisers over the past decade.

As mega-managers like Blackstone have grown larger, so have their roles in driving industry consolidation.

The real estate chief, whose firm raised the largest-ever fund targeting the space, says the strategy has ‘blown up’ in the last few years.

While some professionals received increased pay and bonuses according to the annual compensation study by PERE and executive recruiter Sousou Partners, others saw an even more ‘brutal’ 2024 than the year before.

Only 8% of the fund's capital was raised from investors based in the region, while the majority came from Middle East and APAC investors.