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After a significant repricing cycle, LaSalle Investment Management’s Matthew Sgrizzi and Jim Garvey say core equity is offering income yields that institutional investors have not seen in a decade, though risks remain.

The president and CEO of OMERS’ property business expects appetite for private real estate’s lowest risk and return profile to come back as another cycle forms.

The cost of waiting to future-proof real estate assets is rising as core and core-plus investors weigh energy-efficient retrofits against the risk of future obsolescence, writes Elisabeth Jeffries.

Alternative sectors have moved from niche allocations to mainstream portfolios as investors emphasize demand resilience and long-term demographics, say Christopher Merrill and Joey Lansing of Harrison Street Asset Management.

As redemption queues linger, investors with dry powder are capitalizing on repriced assets, explain StepStone Real Estate’s Margaret McKnight, Jennifer Jones and Andrew Mitro.

Investors are redefining risk and rethinking what belongs in a core portfolio across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

The first PERE Core 100 manager ranking comes as institutional appetite for real estate’s lowest risk and return profiles is expected to return.

PERE has started ranking managers by their fundraising for core and core-plus risk and return profiles at a widely anticipated transitional time for private real estate.

Non-traditional property types are the future of core real estate investing, explains Kayne Anderson’s Kyle Mayes.

Nearly 90% of the equity raised by Core 100 managers went into sector-specific vehicles, with residential and industrial attracting the largest shares.