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Blackstone’s Schwarzman talks up real estate’s resiliency amid AI, private credit fears

The firm’s chairman and CEO said physical assets and asset-based credit are better protected from technological disruption than corporate credit.

The cost of capital is climbing – and dealflow is feeling the strain

This week on The PERE Podcast, market participants are grappling with more economic noise as they try to fund and rework capital stacks during a period of rising costs and risk spurred by global geopolitical issues and their local repercussions.

What is the value of a capital adviser?

Chatham Financial’s acquisition of Hodes Weill reflects how the placement agent’s role in private real estate continues to evolve.

Chatham Financial to buy Hodes Weill & Associates

One of private real estate’s best-known capital advisory firms has multiple key objectives in becoming part of the capital markets adviser.

Invesco Real Estate buys majority stake in a $2bn senior housing portfolio

The assets were assembled by Kayne Anderson, which will stay on as a minority investor.

Prologis’s Arndt: ‘We’re getting ahead of what we see as growing deployment volumes’

The world’s largest REIT raised over $2.6bn of third-party equity in Q1 2026 amid a ‘fantastic quarter’ for investing capital.

Latest fundraising data: volumes fall but less time is spent on the road

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, the team dives into the trends at play in the fundraising market using preliminary data from PERE’s Q1 2026 report.

Borrowing costs move to forefront as Iran conflict persists

While credit spreads have widened modestly, real estate managers are facing the potential for elevated debt costs as base rate projections change.

DOWNLOAD: Real estate fundraising loses ground in Q1 2026

While fundraising volume fell 50% year-on-year in Q1 2026, more funds hit or exceeded their targets and took less time to reach final close.

Heatwaves are disrupting valuation assumptions

Climate risk modeling for retail assets focuses on the building. What it misses is the income, writes Sophie Taysom, founder of London-based climate and sustainability advisory firm Keyah, and Dean Magee, chief data scientist at Melbourne-based data analytics firm Geografia.