Regions

Brookfield’s lofty growth ambitions will be tested in Asia-Pacific

The mega manager aims to reach $120bn in real estate AUM in the region over the next five years. Achieving that target is another matter.

Brookfield aims to triple real estate AUM in Asia-Pacific in five years

The firm’s regional real estate activity over the past 12 months was more than treble its average in prior years.

ADIA to invest up to $1.5bn in GLP’s Greater China business

The Emirati wealth fund is taking an initial $500m stake in GLP months after the data center and logistics manager sold its international business to Ares.

Trades of the decade: The art of the $20bn deal

Bigger firms, bigger deals and the ubiquity of data characterized the evolution of dealmaking in private real estate over the past decade.

GI 100: Real estate continues to grow in investors’ portfolios

Allocations in aggregate may have withstood the turbulence of the era, but investors have had to adapt their approach.

Mubadala appoints Americas real estate chief

The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund hired Daniel Fletcher, an investment professional from Toronto-based DREAM, to lead its North American property business.

Real estate loses further ground to infrastructure among SWFs

Sovereign wealth funds’ total allocation to real estate has declined for the third year running, Invesco’s latest research finds.

Lazard: Investor capital is converging toward real assets

Institutional appetite is gaining pace to allocate to sectors that have infrastructure characteristics, writes James Jacobs, head of real assets for Lazard’s private capital advisory group.

The decade the world split apart

From Brexit and wars to a US-China divide and the rise of India, these themes dominated the geopolitical landscape of the last 10 years in real estate.

Escalating Middle East conflict puts early institutional plays in the spotlight

The start of war between Israel and Iran gives investors cause to re-stress test the region’s commercial real estate thesis.