Deals

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 […]

The leaders of real estate managers Bentall Kennedy and GreenOak Real Estate believe their lack of overlap on both strategy and investor fronts makes their $47bn merged business the perfect fit. 

UBS' real estate and private markets business analyzes the areas of private real estate that will bear the biggest short-term impacts of a world under lockdown.

The public pension fund’s real estate activities will now be overseen by three managers.

Almost a decade after the country required a bailout from the IMF and EU, institutional interest in Greek real estate is on the up.

Industry legends retained their crowns in PERE’s annual ranking of the 50 largest global fund managers. But a few notable names shook up the list, with one manager leaping 48 places in a single year and another firm resurrecting after years away. 2017 saw the same three firms remain at the top of the list: […]

Majority-owner Sun Life has decided the manager will focus on its bigger Infrastructure business. To that end, InfraRed’s European real estate platform is expected to be sold, while its Asia platform will be merged with Sun Life’s main private real estate business, Bentall GreenOak.

The forces assailing the market are not undermining its long-term potential, though they are hastening widespread structural changes.

GreenOak founder Sonny Kalsi and COO Andrew Yoon gave the PERE CFO/COO audience key advice on the M&A process.

The $356bn manager’s purchase of New York-based Almanac Realty Partners also marks its largest acquisition to date.