Capital Formation

Public REITs’ balancing act

The new entrants have closed some of the largest private real estate funds this year, but can they serve two disparate investor groups?

Townsend: Liquidity pressures are pushing managers deeper into secondaries

Amid slower fundraising, real estate managers are turning to secondaries markets as a strategic source of capital rather than a last-resort liquidity tool, say Townsend’s Anthony Frammartino and Jake Heacox.

Longpoint holds close for debut European fund

Texas Permanent School Fund is among the investors backing the Boston-based manager’s value-add fund targeting German and Dutch logistics properties.

Real estate managers help Bank of England shine a light on private markets

Firms which rank among the biggest non-bank lenders to UK real estate are among those contributing to a major stress-testing exercise by the central bank.

Lenders deny manipulating valuation of Brussels tower in High Court dispute

CBRE Loan Services denies allegations that it and lenders to Belgium’s largest office building pressured valuers.

Digital Realty CEO Andy Power: Private fundraising is ‘critical to the success of our company’

The global data center REIT boss talks to The PERE Podcast about why its multi-series, multi-region private fundraising push is essential for a capital-intensive opportunity that is only ‘ratcheting up.’

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.

Residential sector by the numbers

PERE data shows investors continue to target living sectors in 2026.

Land banking’s double life

Urban planners have long used public land banks as a public-interest redevelopment tool, but private investors are increasingly seeing a quick pathway to profit.

Five forces are reshaping global living-sector investment

Institutional capital is redrawing residential strategies as structural shortages, operational intensity and demographic demand reshape the global living sector.