NEWS & ANALYSIS
DATA SNAPSHOT
INTERVIEW
Blackstone’s Meghji: ‘When someone calls with $4bn of capital, you answer the phone’
The US endowment's commitment into the manager’s BREIT fund announced last week is a 'win-win' for both sides and an absolute 'home run’ thanks to the extra liquidity and flexibility it provides, Nadeem Meghji, Blackstone’s head of real estate Americas, told PERE.
BlackRock’s Valentine Andrews: ‘This is a good teaching moment’ for private REITs
The global head of infrastructure and real estate at BlackRock says current scrutiny of private REITs will provide lessons for individual investors evaluating the open-end vehicles.
Laura Hines-Pierce: ‘We do pipeline calls weekly; the tone of those calls has changed’
Hines’ co-CEO returned from maternity leave in September to find a private real estate market in markedly different shape. She shares the experience with PERE.
SPECIAL REPORTS
OPINION
In a hard-hit global property market, Europe is poised to recover first
Europe suffered hefty declines in performance and transaction volume last year, but could see a reversal of its fortunes in 2023.
China opens its doors, but some would keep them closed
Hong Kong’s Gaw Capital offering a separate ex-China sleeve in its latest pan-Asia fund demonstrates bifurcating attitudes among institutions towards Asia’s polarizing powerhouse.
BREIT investors should be comforted by UC Investments’ arrival
Whether they are will be known when Blackstone's $69bn private real estate investment trust’s current net redemption position reverses.