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Virginia Retirement System approves $200m commitmentThe US public pension has backed Blackstone's ninth Real Estate Partners fund.
Blackstone to wrap up fundraising on BREP IXThe New York-based asset manager prepares to close on the institutional capital it has raised for its ninth global opportunistic real estate fund.
Ares eyes US RE expansion with new leadership roleFormer Blackstone senior managing director David Roth will lead the efforts to scale Ares’ US real estate strategy as partner in Ares Real Estate Group and head of US real estate private equity.
PERE Predictions 2019: European real estate: general or specific?Institutional investors must figure out whether their Europe strategies should be broad or differentiated in 2019, argues Will Rowson, head of Europe at advisory firm Hodes Weill.
The clock is ticking – vote now for the 2018 Global PERE AwardsWith tight races already emerging in several key categories, casting your ballot could make the difference.
PERE’s fateful eightIn our concluding Friday Letter for the year, we make eight predictions about private real estate capital formation and deployment in 2019, including: dropping fundraising, moderating investing volumes and shifting of geographic focuses.
Behind the 10 most-read stories in 2018Capital raising’s elite, the biggest managers by five-year fundraising totals and the people of sector giant Blackstone topped out PERE’s big reads this year.
PERE Global Awards: And the nominations are…After weeks of deliberation, we can reveal the organizations and individuals nominated for PERE’s prestigious private real estate industry awards.
San Francisco's Ferry Building: A journey from the wings and backA San Francisco landmark property trades as hopes rise that its occupancy will be boosted by local infrastructure, not thwarted by it as before.
MainePERS approves $80m in commitmentsThe US public pension has backed two real estate focused funds.