News & Analysis

The sovereign wealth fund finalized a $150m commitment to the sector after entering into discussions at the end of last year.

Two European LPs have already defaulted on capital calls, and more are rumored, as LPs get hit with a one-two punch of large, often early capital calls and drying up distributions.

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

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

Although both issues are increasingly industry talking points, they are a priority for only a few investors, according to PERE’s Perspectives 2020 Survey.

Investors continue to find it hard to justify mounting costs and are asking for greater disclosure, according to PERE’s Perspectives 2020 Survey.

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.