Ares Management

The vehicles are the largest in their respective fund series, with US XI also representing the firm’s largest-ever capital haul for a closed-end real estate fund.

Asia’s economic tailwinds are creating particularly compelling opportunities for alternative lenders, say Ares’ Edwin Wong and Dinesh Goel.

Marq Logistics will unify Ares' industrial portfolio with operations bought from GCP, encompassing 600 million square feet globally.

The capital raising momentum comes amid an uptick in deployment, which is up 78% year-on-year in the asset class.

The transaction elbows out a rival bid by Sixth Street, made in August and widely expected to go forward.

Setting an upper limit for a vehicle’s size still serves an important purpose in today’s tough real estate fundraising market.

TREF IV raised $163m and is over 70% deployed.

The pension is weighing one of its largest real estate deployments to date as part of an ongoing push for geographic diversification.

The London-based residential manager has hired its first head of Europe as it looks to scale its platform on the continent.

The initiative marks the New York-based firm’s push into raising and deploying private wealth capital in core-plus real estate.

The Canadian manager has secured close to €350m for its fourth strategy focused on grocery-anchored retail assets in the region.

Managers are confronting uneven vacancy patterns, constrained development pipelines and shifts in global trade as capital migrates into more operationally intensive, infrastructure-adjacent assets.

Logistics investors anticipate abundant opportunities in a market that has reset, with demand being fueled by occupiers fortifying their supply chains against further disruption.

The leadership transition is part of a broader strategy to integrate its China operations and coincides with reported plans for a Hong Kong IPO this year.