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SoftBank’s interest in WeWork has waned, prompting questions about what the value is in co-working businesses.

In our concluding Friday Letter for the year, we make eight predictions about private real estate capital formation and deployment in 2019, including: dropping fundraising, moderating investing volumes and shifting of geographic focuses.

 Capital raising’s elite, the biggest managers by five-year fundraising totals and the people of sector giant Blackstone topped out PERE’s big reads this year.  

The name of the private real estate game is creating core assets, so managers of closed-end strategies must plot investments for real estate that outlast the lives of their vehicles.

It is a particularly difficult time for international capital to access US real estate right now. Beyond a protectionist government, rising interest rates and an increasingly unfavorable currency, the US market is cyclically topping out. JLL reported US investment totaled $341.2 billion in the first three quarters of the year, 14.2 percent higher than the […]

Not for the first time, a major political event was overshadowed at one of PERE’s regional summits by discussions around driving efficiencies through market cycles.

With a consensus opinion of further growth, this year’s EXPO Real conference in Munich shone a spotlight on a market benefiting from higher levels of investment, new entrants and more innovation. Here are PERE's top 10 takeaways

The $1.4trn pension fund’s appointment of Asset Management One as gatekeeper underscores the crucial role intermediaries will play matching Japanese capital with Western managers.

PERE talks to the winners and losers ten years on from property’s ‘day of reckoning’

While the world’s third largest pension fund grinds on spreading it global investment footprint, asset managers are considering the repercussions of its turnover issues.