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Ending government forbearance, inflation fears and heated marketplaces were top discussions items during PERE’s first all-virtual Global Summit.

InfraVia’s Athanasios Zoulovits and Harrison Street’s Michael Hochanadel discuss whether infra or real estate are better suited to these assets.

The Dutch pension fund manager has committed close to $700m in the region’s data center platforms since the second quarter of 2020.

Janine Yorio, head of real estate at the crowdfunding platform Republic, tells PERE how NFTs have led to a rise in virtual real estate investment.

The less obvious takeaways from our inaugural Real Estate Landscape Study that still move the needle for private real estate.

Blackstone’s massive bet in the UK student housing sector was just one of the niche property deals recognized in this year’s awards for the region.

Blackstone has swept the region’s awards, bagging six wins, including Firm of the Year, Industry Figure of the Year, Deal of the Year and Capital Raise of the Year.

The pandemic helped to facilitate the New York-based firm’s foray into the niche real estate sector after a long search for the right entry point.

A $4bn first close for Digital Colony’s second fund is evidence of higher demand from institutional investors for private ownership of digital real estate.

Urban farming may be a niche business today, but its future growth potential is significant as food security issues increase.