Europe

The unprecedented events of the past year have spurred greater interest in listed real estate. Arshiya Khullar explores how that could change the composition for institutional real estate portfolios.

As two major deal announcements showed this week, some of the largest institutions want scale in industrial real estate, and fast

Brexit and covid have been cause for concern for managers and investors. But some institutions have continued to forge ahead despite the challenges.

The higher returning strategy raised only $35.4bn, but the average fund size hit an all-time high, according to PERE data.

The Canadian pension, which is significantly underallocated in the sector, will aim to more than double the UK-based firm’s AUM in the next five years.

The Singaporean investment firm remains confident in the future of offices and has 22% of its AUM deployed into the asset class.

The organisations are among an increasing number of managers choosing the current volatile environment to better establish their European debt businesses.

The executive expects investments in operators to become an increasing part of the French insurer’s real estate portfolio.

The US manager has backed the launch of a new lending business by former Man Group and Octopus Real Estate executives to capitalize on the UK’s residential financing gap.