Middle East

Investors are on alert for a growing number of red flags that extend beyond power and land access to sustainability, cybersecurity and data sovereignty.

Inside: How low returns have investors digging into fund expenses; The 2026 Global Investor 100 – our ranking of private real estate’s largest allocators; Why flexibility is moving to the forefront for investors; A European debt roundtable; And much more…

PERE’s investor ranking has recorded its highest-ever aggregate allocation to private real estate. But its growth says more about asset repricing than increased activity.

PERE’s 2026 ranking of the world’s largest private real estate allocators has recovered the ground it lost last year, and then some.

The Alberta pension has hired Dan Teper, a former real estate specialist at the Abu Dhabi Investment Council and Brookfield, to oversee its C$26.5bn property portfolio.

The largest commitment of H1 2026 – ADIA’s $675m check to Kotak India Real Estate Fund XIV – came in at roughly half the size of last year’s $1.3bn top check.

Amit Diwan, the manager’s head of India, takes on the newly created position while previous APAC boss Jon Tanaka shifts to one focused on Japan and Korea.

Joseph Ghazal has left the warehouse giant after 25 years for a newly created role at Tishman focused on expanding the firm’s business in the Middle East and India.

The 2016-18 fund vintages were the last to return capital in full to investors, reaching an average DPI of 1.05x 10 years after inception.