Regulation & Legal

The evolving GP-led secondaries market offers much to investors and managers in Asia, say Christian Keiber and Bastian Wolff, founding partners at Aquilius Investment Partners, and Anthony Wong, head of APAC investment funds and partner at law firm White & Case.

The vice-president of the European Central Bank says alternative debt providers are of greater concern than traditional lenders.

Asia-Pacific real estate investors with loans to refinance have new pressures to deal with, especially in certain sectors or markets.

Falling asset values and conservative banks are forcing investors to turn to private debt to refinance their portfolios.

Major urban developers and asset managers, with their deep pockets, need to take the reins of urban sustainability efforts to reach mandates from regulators as well as investors.

There are significant follow-on financial effects as the real estate industry looks to decarbonize, but there is a lot that managers can do, say CRREM's Sebastian Leutner and Ben Höhn.

Standardized regulatory frameworks and transparent data are needed around sustainable investing to drive informed decisions, says our panel.

Regulators are targeting the real estate sector – which is responsible for 39% of European carbon emissions – and the market is responding.

Bringing real estate to a wider audience means satisfying sometimes conflicting demands.

Fundraising and deployment stalled in a difficult year, but stabilizing interest rates are gradually reassuring investors in the region.