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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, Lucy Scott, Charlotte D’Souza, Samantha Rowan and Daniel Cunningham share the key talking points from last week’s conference.

Participation from US investors declined compared with the fund’s predecessor, but the manager benefited from new capital sources in Asia.