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Why bad retail refuses to go away; what Brookfield's $17 billion fundraise target means for private real estate post-covid; CapitaLand's latest splash in the data center space; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Foreign and domestic managers in China want the best in global standards and a handle on local nuances, according to Jing Jing Qian and Catherine Law from Sanne

Private real estate firms jostle for UK student housing market share; ESR’s ‘natural’ pivot to data centers; PAG secures rare mega office lease in Hong Kong; Hotel fundraising; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Fifth Wall’s dominance in PERE’s inaugural Proptech 20 ranking is reminiscent of Blackstone’s in the private real estate sector’s main capital market space.

BentallGreenOak gives Metropolitan Real Estate a new home; BlackRock proves its Asian fund series has staying power; Townsend says more space for office workers is here to stay; Blackstone dominates the Global PERE Awards; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

The Chicago-based broker is poised to close on a deal to acquire the London-based capital advisory firm of Anthony Biddulph, Nick Ridgewell and Luca Giangolini.

The Frankfurt-based private equity real estate firm is looking at cancelled transactions and auctions for deals for its €350m fourth European opportunity fund.

There has been an uptick in European managers asking investors for more time to market funds caught out by covid-19.

Brookfield dives into the competitive open-end European fund market; Blackstone bets big on self-storage; Oak Street looks to securitize net lease notes; Savills puts Japan in the crosshairs; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

The wall of capital will likely mean lower returns for property credit strategies. But that has not deterred institutional capital from piling in, as this record-breaking close will attest.