Sectors

In a risk-on market, anchor investors are opting not to go it alone

For some groups, partnering with other capital providers can make it easier to take a chance on a less established fund strategy.

Danish pensions anchor first close of Urban Partners’ regeneration fund

PensionDanmark and SamPension are both backing the Northern Europe-focused vehicle as first-time investors with the Copenhagen-based manager.

Brookfield forms ground-lease JV with specialist Safehold

The manager acquired a non-controlling stake in a US portfolio assembled by public REIT Safehold, which has options to reacquire it after seven years.

Partners Group holds first close for latest real estate secondaries strategy

The manager has secured more than $650m across a global program focused primarily on GP-led secondaries but seeded with an LP-led fund portfolio.

NPS pivots towards more bespoke vehicles in real estate

The Korean investor is leaning into club deals, SMAs and direct investments to sharpen strategy, cut costs and speed up investments.

Environmental metrics: Pricing in the green gap

As environmental metrics move beyond branding toward verifiable benchmarks, investors must look to concrete metrics and regulatory certainty to capture value.

Co-living moves into the mainstream

Operators and investors are scaling shared housing platforms as demand intensifies in major gateway cities.

The residential underwriting reset

As the era of cheap debt fades, investors are relying on income growth, stronger asset selection and more disciplined capital management to drive returns.

Affordable housing or returns: The development equation

The need for affordable accommodation is acute, and an increasing volume of private capital is available to the sector, but making development projects ‘pencil’ remains challenging.

Making the financial case for impact investing

New research from the Multifamily Impact Council and NYU finds multifamily resident services, engagement and sustainability initiatives positively influence NOI, writes Bob Simpson, founder and CEO of the Multifamily Impact Council.