Sectors

Starwood’s Pollack: US policy is ‘coming home to roost in real estate’

The mega-manager’s president said shifts in immigration and tourism numbers have negatively impacted the world’s largest property market.

Starwood’s Pollack: Insurance capital and cloud investments to shape firm’s growth

The PERE Podcast dials up a keynote interview with Starwood’s Jonathan Pollack to unpack how the firm is balancing forward investment plans, insurance capital relations and evolving geopolitical stressors.

GreenPoint Partners on capital pushing into nascent sectors

Chris Green, founder and CEO of GreenPoint Partners, says that as transport, energy transition and digital infrastructure mature, investors are backing strategies aimed at building scale.

APG shifts focus to core real estate in Asia Pacific

With a strategic pivot toward developed markets and engaging them via open-end funds, the investor is reshaping its investment approach in Asia.

La Caisse appoints real estate asset management lead in Europe

The executive joins from Legal & General where he oversaw the UK asset manager’s transaction activity in the region.

No more ‘easy trades’: REIT take-privates could slow in reshaped market

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, editorial members across PERE titles and Gravis’s Matthew Norris unpack how opportunistic private real estate managers seeking discounted buys on listed markets may need to move with more speed as REITs signal renewed health.

Almanac acquires minority stake in Alterra IOS

The investment will support Alterra’s growing IOS portfolio in a further sign of the institutionalization of the asset class.

Real estate M&A transactions jumped 40% in 2023-25

Deals involving sector specialists represent an increasing share of consolidation activity, according to a report from Hodes Weill.

Urban Partners sells €1bn of Nordic logistics assets

The disposal to Catena and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is the region’s largest-ever such transaction.

Denmark’s PenSam to double foreign property portfolio, trim US exposure

The $32bn retirement fund is prioritizing European investments – including logistics and residential housing – in the face of US instability, according to head of real assets Jeppe Starup.