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The affordable housing-focused European Residential Income Fund II is the manager’s second European discretionary fund.

As retail and office sectors trend toward volatility, the steady returns of sale-and-leaseback strategies are becoming attractive fixed-income substitutes.

The industrial real estate heavyweight plans to grow the Japan-focused fund’s AUM from $2.6bn to more than $10bn in the next several years.

Over 70% of larger institutions plan to raise or maintain their real estate allocation to the country in 2021, according to a new JLL report.

Following its expansion into Vietnam and South Korea, the firm is eyeing Thailand and Japan as the next destinations.

As streaming platforms race to produce original content, surging demand for sound stage space has boosted the sector’s appeal to institutional capital.

The Munich-based insurer is closer to its aim of having 10% of its private real estate assets managed on behalf of external investors within the next five years.

Institutional investors and managers are grappling with the underwriting implications of pre-covid office working practices being dumped.

Real estate investment volumes dropped 34% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020 as the region was affected earlier than the rest of the world by the pandemic

Regulators have set the draft guidance of a pilot program. But those hopeful a first batch of REITs can be rolled out in the third quarter should curb their enthusiasm.