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When you are the world’s biggest manager and raiser of institutional capital for private real estate, your prognostications on the asset class tend to be heard. And so it proved at PERE’s Asia Summit in Hong Kong last week where Blackstone’s real estate co-heads Ken Caplan and Kathleen McCarthy joined PEI’s Real Estate Group senior […]

For some of the delegates at MIPIM, the ‘retail train wreck’ is creating discounted opportunities across equity and debt.

Lonneke Lowik of INREV drills into why geopolitics and the macroeconomics environment remain important , but no more than raid technology growth and changing market dynamics

Sarah Schwarzschild, partner and co-head of Metropolitan, Carlyle’s real estate multi-manager platform, has become a private real estate role model for her professional progression while growing a family. She shares thoughts on how she made it happen.

Sidecars that invest alongside traditional private real estate funds are on the rise, but their terms vary greatly. This lack of uniformity is unhelpful and will not last.

How to invest $5 billion in just the next 12 months: this is the burning question facing a number of private real estate investment managers in Asia right now. According to data shared by real estate services firm CBRE with PERE this week, a handful of 2014-vintage, closed-end, Asia-Pacific-focused real estate funds still have in […]

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.  

Rising hedging costs have diminished appetite for American real estate in favor of European.

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.