Middle East

The PERE Podcast breaks down a budding recovery in real estate capital formation, with insights from Bain Capital’s Ryan Cotton.

The Hong Kong-based manager is ‘going back to our roots’ by emphasizing its pan-Asia strategies for institutional investors.

Hodes Weill and Cornell University’s annual report finds institutions lowered targets 10bps on average in 2025, the first decline in the survey’s 13-year history.

The London-based real assets consulting firm is responding to an increase in global managers seeking to raise and deploy capital in the region.

The firm is expanding its warehouse footprint in partnership with Lunate, the Abu Dhabi-based firm that teamed with Brookfield on a Middle East residential strategy in May.

PERE’s investor ranking sees its first-ever aggregate decline in property exposure as macroeconomic factors continue to weigh on values and sentiment.

For the first time on record, PERE’s global investor ranking contends with a decline in aggregate allocation to private real estate.

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.

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