Charlotte D'Souza
Charlotte D’Souza is Editor, Equity for PERE, overseeing the editorial coverage of equity-side capital strategy and formation in private real estate globally. Previously, she reported on European private real estate as PERE's EMEA Editor in addition to curating and editing PERE's monthly global magazine. Based in London, Charlotte joined PEI in 2022, after spending more than seven years on the content team at Preqin, most recently as Senior Editorial Manager overseeing the editing desk for the global alternative assets data business. Charlotte has a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Exeter.
The manager has secured more than $650m across a global program focused primarily on GP-led secondaries but seeded with an LP-led fund portfolio.
Investors are finding ways to maintain control over investments even while granting more discretion to managers.
The regional specialist has secured €1.5bn for its fourth opportunity fund after less than six months on the road.
Global real estate secondaries transaction volume increased last year, with larger-scale liquidity structures a growing feature of the market, per the manager’s latest research.
With the appointment of Anne-Jan Jager, the Southern European specialist is looking to grow its existing US platform and establish a presence in new European markets.
With its fifth European logistics value-add fund, the firm has closed the largest private real estate fund globally so far this year.
The Nordics specialist is already halfway toward its €1bn target for the fund after around six months on the road.
The London-based manager is targeting its largest-ever fundraise, with CBRE IM's Indirect business among the first investors in the fund.
Former Hines executive Paul White will head up CBRE IM’s Europe Value Partners series, for which the manager has not raised a fund since 2018.
In investing €1.25bn to build new homes, the Dutch pension fund is becoming an outlier in an increasingly development-shy market.