News & Analysis

Six months after leaving EQT Real Estate, PERE’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner is ready for the next chapter in his career with ExCorde Capital.

The Belgian manager exceeded its target size for the pan-European value-add vehicle, which will also be invested in industrial and self-storage assets.

Now is a good time to deploy capital in the region’s real estate markets, say participants in PERE’s European roundtable. But political risks still cloud the outlook.

Despite closing its debut real estate secondaries fund below target, the manager perceives a lack of capital in the market relative to the opportunity set.

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, Lucy Scott, Greg Dool, Samantha Rowan and Daniel Cunningham discuss private real estate’s latest mega-merger.

Karen Horstmann, formerly of NBIM, and CBRE IM’s Christina Forrest have joined the Canadian pension as managing directors in New York and London, respectively.

Norway’s $1.8trn sovereign wealth fund is off to a busy start this year, too.

Industry executives are concerned Donald Trump’s energy policies could further steer investor capital away from the asset class to infrastructure.

A lengthy fundraising cycle paid off for the manager’s RESOF II, which dwarfed its predecessor by 50%.

China is one of the insurer’s ‘biggest growth markets,’ but the investor is exercising caution as it looks to time the recovery, said head of real estate Kian-Sin Toh.