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Meghan Morris

Meghan Morris is the senior Americas reporter for PEI Media’s private markets real estate title PERE. Based in New York, Meghan covers news and trends in the private equity real estate industry and is responsible for PERE’s social media engagement. She has previously written for Bloomberg, Crain’s Chicago Business and various business-to-business publications. Meghan received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
The pension plan’s real estate arm bought London’s Blue Fin building, continuing a push to build up its European real estate presence.
As sovereign wealth funds seek diversification, Qatar writes a check for a 44 percent stake in the $8.6 billion mixed-use development.
The country’s third largest pension plan bought a 50 percent stake in a MetLife portfolio.
The Darien, Connecticut-based firm held a final close for its largest-ever real estate fund of funds.
The firm continued to post losses in real estate, but executives spoke of opportunities in Europe and the US.
Canada’s largest pension plan bought a stake in a 722-asset industrial portfolio with Global Logistic Properties and three other investors.
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm has agreed to buy over 23,000 apartment units from Equity Residential after another big multifamily purchase last week.
The pension plan committed €50 million ($57 million) to PW Real Assets’ opportunistic fund.
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm, in partnership with a Canadian REIT, is acquiring Landmark Apartment Trust adding another 19,615 units multifamily units to the 44,500 units it purchased in the last year.
The state pension plan committed €35 million to London-based Benson Elliot and $40 million to Walton Street on Wednesday.
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