Managers

Chiara Zuccon, senior director of debt advisory at CBRE, talks to Real Estate Capital about financing PRS across Europe.

Looking to compete with the top equity firms, smaller managers are finding greater leverage when negotiating with investors by offering co-investments

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.

While most managers offer a 50% discount, better deals for investors can be had.

Andie Kang established Korea’s National Pension Service as one of the world’s pre-eminent private real estate investors, before swapping from public to private three years ago. Arshiya Khullar caught up with him at the country’s biggest investment manager IGIS Asset Management to hear all about it.

Private real estate’s investors are staffing up and changing their policies to become more adept at using sidecars.

Sidecars have become popular for investors looking to right-size their portfolio and for managers in need of capital. But there is little uniformity in how they are arranged.

Managers and investors alike are approaching sidecars more frequently, in different ways and for new reasons. This increase in popularity, though, has led to some uncertainty.