Value-Add

The capital raising momentum comes amid an uptick in deployment, which is up 78% year-on-year in the asset class.

Brookfield’s new real estate CEO readies a major initiative just months after taking the helm of one of the world’s largest managers.

A booming tourism market and severe supply constraints mean hotel assets are on many investors’ bucket lists.

The Hong Kong-based manager is ‘going back to our roots’ by emphasizing its pan-Asia strategies for institutional investors.

The decision to end the Value Investors Asia series also coincided with significant leadership changes across the globe in 2025.

The Connecticut-based manager is eyeing a $1bn development pipeline and a return to value-add multifamily following the sale of its data center and fiber network business.

But without three mega funds, the total capital raised in Q1-Q3 2025 would have fallen below that of the same period last year.

DFI aims to build a £500m platform focused on industrial assets near research institutions and other ‘knowledge and innovation’ hubs.

London-based residential specialist Matter has also received an investment from Madison into its value-add and opportunistic funds.

The European manager’s unification of the two real estate strategies comes after the launch of the parent platform two years ago.