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Flexing fund terms will have knock-on effects, say lawyersInvestors may be amenable to investment period extensions in today’s climate, but lengthening the fund term could have more serious implications.
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.
Investment period extensions carry no stigma now, but nor are they risk freeIn a highly illiquid private real estate market, investors will need to get comfortable with longer deployment periods – and managers will need to contain any adverse impact.
DOWNLOAD: Investor appetite for private real estate remains robust for 2024Although 38% of investors were overallocated to the asset class in 2023, only 27% plan to invest less capital this year.
Is the storm over for private REITs?Although institutional investors are showing renewed optimism about real estate, retail investors remain cautious.
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.
DOWNLOAD: Fundraising hit an 11-year low in 2023The total of $138.93bn raised in 2023 represented a 41% drop from the $236.04bn raised in the 2021 fundraising peak.
Bridge Investment Group launches industrial net-lease vehicleBridge has invested more than $700m into industrial net lease warehouse properties and built-to-suit development projects since 2021.
Focusing on the final mile piece of the puzzleUrban logistics facilities that serve the last leg of delivery have become a dynamic real estate sector tapping into a strong supply and demand story.