Sectors

Look Ahead 2025: Macquarie sees real estate getting macro uplift

The firm’s head of real estate strategy expects the sector – previously hard hit by rate hikes – recovering faster than other asset classes.

Australia’s IFM targets ‘blurring boundaries’ between real estate and infra

With its new merger, the Melbourne-based infrastructure firm hopes to grow and globalize property fund manager IFM’s unlisted platform.

CapitaLand’s Tham: ‘We would really love to grow in Australia’

The Singaporean firm, which is buying Australian credit manager Wingate, aims to triple its FUM in the country over the next few years.

SBCERA weighs 21% increase to annual real estate commitments

The pension fund could allocate $1.45bn to real estate funds over the coming decade.

Blackstone pays $2.6bn for Tokyo towers, its largest deal in Japan to date

The manager reportedly outbid KKR and BGO for the mixed-use Garden Terrace Kioicho and its 1.2 million square feet of fully occupied offices.

BlackRock’s Asia fund changes are a sign of the times

Investors should expect more investment strategies to evolve in response to an ever-shifting macroeconomic environment.

BlackRock makes strategic changes for its Asia real estate fund

With a focus on transparency and liquidity, Fund VI will exclude Hong Kong and China, and will further limit exposure to the office sector.

Deep Dive: Distress takes an unexpected turn

Opportunities are emerging from troubled assets or owners, but they are not what the industry had anticipated.

How real estate investors are achieving the ‘S’ of ESG

Communities take center stage as investors engage with local stakeholders and act on occupant wellbeing, data from the Fitwel benchmark shows.

Border to Coast’s Smith: This is the right time to buy

With its partner funds around £850m underweight to UK real estate, the LGPS pool is poised to begin deploying from its latest vehicle, says head of real estate Alistair Smith.