Sectors

Retail investors look to pick winning segments as market recovers

Experience and necessity-driven assets are back in focus, but identifying outperforming subsectors is more difficult than ever.

Retail remains attractive for many investors and managers

Fundraising has fallen across nearly all real estate sectors, but for those focused on retail-specific strategies, there are still deals crossing the finish line.

What happened to the indoor mall?

As the number of stores and malls shrinks, owners and investors are looking at creative alternatives to keep those still around relevant.

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Asana Partners: Neighborhood retail is optimizing returns

Small suites are netting big rent growth amid the retail sector’s resurgence, explain Asana Partners’ Will Ponder and Reed Kracke.

Arrow Global: Opportunistic capital spearheads investors’ return to retail

Liquidity is returning to a restructured and repriced European retail sector, once again offering attractive risk-return characteristics, says Arrow Global’s Zachary Vaughan.

Europe awards: UK strategies seize the moment

Britain led the region’s real estate recovery in 2024, and institutional investors took notice in a big way.

Retail specialist Mitiska REIM raises over €300m for latest fund

The Belgian manager exceeded its target size for the pan-European value-add vehicle, which will also be invested in industrial and self-storage assets.

Sculptor raises $3bn for fifth flagship fund, its largest ever

The manager also more than doubled the size of its non-traded REIT last year after pulling in another $270m.

PAG raises its biggest opportunistic fund at $4bn

PAG saw the participation of Asian investors rise substantially with Fund VIII, increasing to 40% from 25% in the prior fund.