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Advisory firm Sousou Connect launches Saudi venture

The London-based real assets consulting firm is responding to an increase in global managers seeking to raise and deploy capital in the region.

Madison International, GCM Grosvenor buy stakes in Matter Real Estate

London-based residential specialist Matter has also received an investment from Madison into its value-add and opportunistic funds.

KIC eyes total portfolio approach as real estate underperforms

While the investor keeps its allocation to real estate, it will alter its investments within the asset class.

The GI 100 grapples with shrinking allocations to real estate

PERE’s investor ranking sees its first-ever aggregate decline in property exposure as macroeconomic factors continue to weigh on values and sentiment.

For the Global Investor 100, the pain has yet to pass

For the first time on record, PERE’s global investor ranking contends with a decline in aggregate allocation to private real estate.

US property faces shrinking buyer pool as states restrict foreign investment

Amid sluggish capital flows, a wave of security-minded laws could have wider market consequences.

Starwood’s Sternlicht on ESR privatization: ‘Our goal here is to clean it up’

Starwood Capital’s chairman and CEO anticipates the transaction will ‘create very high returns’ for the mega-manager’s Fund XII.

ADIA to invest up to $1.5bn in GLP’s Greater China business

The Emirati wealth fund is taking an initial $500m stake in GLP months after the data center and logistics manager sold its international business to Ares.

NBIM bets on European retail, office and resi in diversification push 

Grosvenor, Shaftesbury investments have helped to rebalance the sovereign wealth giant’s sector exposure.

Mubadala appoints Americas real estate chief

The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund hired Daniel Fletcher, an investment professional from Toronto-based DREAM, to lead its North American property business.