Europe

In raising $370m for its first global ‘brown-to-green’ real estate fund, LaSalle has proven there is no time like the present to put sustainability front and center.

The manager now owns eight similar assets in the UK through its core-plus HEPP fund.

As liquidity gradually returns to private real estate, much of the proceeds are not flowing back to where they came from, PERE heard at MIPIM.

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, the editorial team provide their top takeaways from the global trade show MIPIM. They also reflect on how delegates see the Iran crisis impacting the outlook for real estate capital flows.

The vehicle received commitments from 15 limited partners globally, including The State Pension Fund of Finland, LACERA and NZ Super.

Attacks on digital infrastructure in the Middle East were among the talking points during last week’s MIPIM conference in Cannes.

To grasp opportunities in a reset European lending market, lenders need to look beyond their traditional roles, argue Deutsche Pfandbriefbank’s Duncan Pearson and Charles Balch in this episode of The PERE Podcast.

The $921m acquisition will give Savills greater exposure to the US market and accelerate its ambition to offer clients investment banking services.

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, PIMCO Prime Real Estate chief executive François Trausch shares his outlook on Europe’s fast‑evolving real estate credit market, including the fierce competition around refinancing and how property debt stacks up against corporate credit.