Europe

Prologis doubles down on private capital

The world’s largest REIT faces a daunting fundraising market, but the top executives in its strategic capital business are up for the challenge.

‘Differentiation is critical’: Impact fund managers believe momentum will continue in 2025

Impact-related strategies bucked a downward trend for overall real estate fundraising last year.

CBRE IM: Secondaries is seeing upward trajectory

CBRE IM’s Kilian Toms and Chris Dickson discuss how considered solutions have created a bull market in real estate secondaries.

What makes real estate continuation vehicles different?

Stephenson Harwood partners Sarah de Ste Croix and Gabriel Boghossian outline the main ways continuation funds in the real estate sector differ from their private equity cousins in the secondaries market.

Invesco nears final close for European value-add fund

The real estate vehicle is the first to have a ‘value-add-plus’ strategy after the Dallas-based manager combined two of its fund series.

HSBC AM’s head of global real assets exits after four years

The departure of Victoria Sharpe comes a year after the manager’s acquisition of Singapore-based manager SilkRoad Property Partners.

M&G Real Estate to tap third-party capital for value-add strategy

This move comes as the firm approaches full deployment of capital from its first $900m international value-add strategy.

Decarbonization remains critical despite ESG backlash, say managers

Market forces will keep sustainability on the agenda, according to attendees at the annual MIPIM conference.

Private real estate looks to diversify in the face of volatility

As global economies descend into a trade war, investors and managers are prioritizing a greater mix of strategies to navigate through uncertainty.

StepStone promotes three real estate partners in Europe

The manager upped London-based Laia Massague and Pooja Patel and Frankfurt-based Anja Ritchie – all women – to top roles on its global real estate team.