The real estate investment group of the German insurer saw its RE debt assets under management drop from €19.3bn in 2018 to €18.9bn in H1 2019.
2 min read · 14 October 2019
Following positive return performances in 2018, family office allocations to the strategy increased by 2.1 percentage points – more than any other asset class.
3 min read · 07 October 2019
Real estate secondaries transaction volumes fell 39.2% during the first half of 2019 but the dip is expected to be temporary, according to private equity secondary advisory firm Setter Capital.
2 min read · 17 September 2019
Given a family office’s access to long-dated capital, real estate investments seem like a good fit. But management fees continue to be an area of contention.
3 min read · 06 August 2019
Growth in the global real estate market was muted across almost all countries in 2018 because of currencies depreciating against the US dollar, according to a July report by MSCI.
3 min read · 30 July 2019
The vehicle type raised more equity last year than 2017 amid continuing stable performance for global and European-focused strategies, according to research by ANREV and INREV.
1 min read · 24 July 2019
But strip out a couple of mega-funds and the picture is entirely different.
1 min read · 17 July 2019
The region’s real estate investors are curtailing cross-border investments as currency hedging costs rise and yields fall for trophy assets in mature overseas markets, according to the property services firm.
3 min read · 05 June 2019
A key concern for institutional investors in 2019 is abundant capital in real estate driving down returns and adding more risk, according to the global placement advisory firm Probitas Partners.
3 min read · 20 May 2019
The $39bn raised for closed-end, private real estate funds in the first quarter of the year is the most raised in a first quarter since the global financial crisis. But mega-fundraising once again skewed the numbers.
1 min read · 25 April 2019