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Blueprint: What Black Creek is really bringing to the table for Ares, KKR’s retail revolution, Savills IM’s pan-Asian debut

The real value Black Creek brings to Ares; KKR’s innovative approach to raising retail capital; Savills Investment Management’s big, new pan-Asian strategy; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Blackstone, Oaktree vie for Australian gaming company; Mitsubishi goes big on data centers; Brookfield finalizes BPY privatization

Blackstone, Oaktree and others place bids for Australia’s biggest casino operator; Mitsubishi aims to be the first Japanese data center investor in the US; Brookfield ups its offer to take its listed platform private; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Bain Capital ratchets up content creation platform; PSP’s billion-dollar bet on UK logistics; Allianz dives into direct lending

Bain Capital goes prime time with its push into content creation; Canada’s PSP goes big on UK logistics; a first for Allianz’s real estate debt platform; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Why bad retail refuses to go away; Brookfield’s $17bn fund launch; CapitaLand’s data center buy in China; A record-setting US hotel sale

Why bad retail refuses to go away; what Brookfield’s $17 billion fundraise target means for private real estate post-covid; CapitaLand’s latest splash in the data center space; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Why Starwood and Blackstone like Fifth Wall’s latest SPAC acquisition; Mapletree mulls another REIT offering; USAA takes full ownership of Square Mile Capital

Why Starwood, Blackstone and other heavy hitters like Fifth Wall’s most recent SPAC acquisition; Mapletree’s latest IPO consideration targets student housing; USAA adds to surging M&A activity; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Extended Stay boards’ defense of $6bn Blackstone, Starwood deal, Mubadala’s entry into Australian logistics, a big GIC departure

Extended Stay America’s boards defend $6 billion Blackstone, Starwood transaction; Mubadala Investment Company breaks into Australian logistics; top female real estate exec to leave GIC; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Lone Star’s UK student housing play, ESR sidesteps into data centers, AXA’s office development fundraise, Ivanhoé Cambridge’s US industrial bet

Private real estate firms jostle for UK student housing market share; ESR’s ‘natural’ pivot to data centers; PAG secures rare mega office lease in Hong Kong; Hotel fundraising; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: PERE’s Proptech 20 launches; KKR’s $1bn life sciences deal; Ares’s Landmark purchase analyzed; BGO’s diversity win

PERE’s Proptech 20 ranking launches; KKR plunges into life sciences with a $1 billion deal; further insights into Ares’s purchase of secondaries specialist Landmark Partners; the diversity benefits for BGO in acquiring Metropolitan Real Estate; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: Nuveen, Taconic’s $600m NYC life science recap; QuadReal’s $1bn China logistics venture; WeWork repositions as a tech company

Nuveen and Taconic’s plans to upscale a NYC car showroom into a life sciences hub; How QuadReal’s low profile China strategy includes a $1 billion logistics partnership; KKR hires Tom Lee to lead its lower risk and return Asia activities; and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Blueprint: StepStone is ready to spend; Blackstone, Starwood draw questions for latest hotel play; Gaw launches proptech fund

What StepStone plans to do with $3.5 billion of dry powder; a closer look at the price Blackstone, Starwood paid for Extended Stay America; Gaw Capital’s latest proptech investment strategy, and more in today’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.