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Blueprint: Fed watchdog highlights banks' commercial real estate exposure, Lone Star collects a third of its $6bn fundraising target, real estate secondaries volume fallsThe Federal Reserve watchdog weighs in on commercial real estate bank exposures and lending reserves; Lone Star Funds makes headway amassing firepower for its latest fund ahead of a distressed vintage; Ares data shows real estate secondaries volumes have dropped; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Blueprint: GIC’s real estate leadership changes, MSREI’s fund extension for G10, Brookfield’s first close for BSREP VGIC’s real estate chief investment officer Lee Kok Sun retires after 27 years at the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund; Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing receives a one-year extension on the investment period for its tenth global real estate fund; Brookfield raises $8 billion in the initial close for BSREP V; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
BlackRock names new global co-heads of real estateThe executives will be the New York-based asset manager's first dedicated heads of real estate since Marcus Sperber departed in 2019.
Blueprint: Geopolitical impacts on private real estate, US and UK interest rate policy sentiment threatens to diverge, annual private real estate fundraising at lowest level in more than a decadePERE's February Deep Dive highlights the ripple effects of geopolitics on private real estate investment activity globally; interest rates policy thinking is showing signs of divergence in the sector; fundraising totals for private real estate are the worst in more than a decade, just two years after hitting a peak in 2021; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Move over, debt funds; secondaries are driving appetite, tooTwo historic fundraises in the space of a week tell us much about where real estate investors see opportunities for returns in a fractured market.
Blueprint: Ex-Blackstone real estate boss Chad Pike returns; Aermont sees cultural fit with acquirer Keppel; rising insurance costsEx-Blackstone real estate boss Chad Pike has returned to the market via the launch of a manager focused on the current capital dislocation in the sector; European opportunity fund manager Aermont's tie-up with Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corporation is steeped in operational real estate common ground; rising insurance costs are having an increasingly heavy impact on US real estate net income and more besides in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Blue Owl's Zahr: The net lease specialist going bigOn the verge of closing the firm's first real estate mega-fund, Marc Zahr’s next challenge is deploying the capital into the still-maturing sector.
Private real estate opens the gates to new investorsVolatility is strengthening the case for retail investors to increase real estate exposure, but the opportunity to tap the private wealth channel is not without its challenges.
Ares’ real estate debt AUM surpasses $11bnThe strategy is the second-largest in the Los Angeles-based firm’s real assets business after US real estate equity.
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Alpaca launches real estate investment armThe New York-based proptech firm has hired two executives from Ares and Prospect Ridge to lead the new platform.