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With most managers employing European waterfalls, the challenge has been to retain younger employees while getting investor buy-in.

The remuneration gap between acquisition and asset management executives in private real estate is narrowing. But whether that is a function of the market cycle is debatable.

The firm aims to grow its strategic advisory business, including M&A advisory, to account for more than 40% of its total activity over the next three to four years.

Debt funds drove hiring activity across the European real estate debt market in 2018, research from Paragon Search Partners shows.

Kevin Colket has launched a ‘pure-play hospitality-focused firm’ to raise institutional capital for global investment strategies in the sector.

Metropolitan Real Estate’s head of global secondaries headlines a flurry of personnel moves at the Washington, DC firm

Former Blackstone senior managing director David Roth will lead the efforts to scale Ares’ US real estate strategy as partner in Ares Real Estate Group and head of US real estate private equity.

The public pension fund’s real estate activities will now be overseen by three managers.

Palmer’s CEO tells PERE the decision to sell an 80% stake in the £1bn firm to Canadian manager Fiera Capital was the upshot of an inflection point for the business.  

The termination of Michael Bütter as CEO at one of Germany’s biggest real estate investment managers was down to ‘personal misconduct' the firm said.