As covid-19 amplifies the exodus from big, expensive cities, institutional capital must decide if it wants to join the retreat or bet on a return.
10 min read · 02 November 2020
Should the Democrats sweep the White House and Congress, Blackstone’s president and COO says infrastructure spending and funding for cities could offset other headwinds.
3 min read · 29 October 2020
Three of real estate’s most institutionalized sectors are facing long-term, structural headwinds. ‘Niche’ strategies, meanwhile, are pushing into the mainstream.
3 min read · 29 October 2020
Emerging and diverse managers received less than 3% of capital commitments closed in H1, raising fears they are being left behind as the pandemic changes fundraising.
9 min read · 27 October 2020
The massive transaction might have raised eyebrows for other firms, but as one consultant said ‘that’s just Blackstone being Blackstone.’
6 min read · 22 October 2020
Jim Barry, head of real assets at the world’s largest asset manager, previously called the strategy a ‘strategic gap’ for the firm’s real estate platform.
2 min read · 20 October 2020
While it was partly facilitated by the covid-19 crisis, the deal reflects many major themes that have brought other buyers and sellers to the table.
3 min read · 15 October 2020
The first nine months of 2020 were the lowest year-on-year global fundraising period in the past five years, according to newly released PERE data.
2 min read · 15 October 2020
The Boston-based manager has launched a $250m joint venture with an Atlanta-based rental home specialist, its second such partnership this month.
3 min read · 15 October 2020
US mega-managers continue to prop up Europe’s opportunistic private real estate coffers. But the region’s wider bench remains distinctly European.
1 min read · 15 October 2020
