Mizuho Group

This week’s top story highlights a contrarian effort in one of real estate’s most challenged sectors of recent years: life sciences. Eyeing opportunity in the wake of a broad retreat from the category, Tishman Speyer-backed Breakthrough Properties is back with a second fund with $430 million in initial commitments to show for it. Elsewhere, retrenchment wears on as Ontario Teachers cuts its Asia real estate team, prime offices enjoy a global rent bump, Sixth Street bets on San Francisco and more in this week’s digest, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Scandimania dominates this week’s headlines: NBIM kicks things off with a blockbuster commitment; meanwhile, Hines, the firm from which NBIM recently poached its head of real estate, loses another top executive. Two US-based managers copy NBIM’s approach of targeting public and private real estate, Greystar enters the Nordic market, and more in this week’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Private real estate gets a reality check in PERE's latest investor report, which suggests a fundraising rebound is still some ways off. That is not stopping several new managers from making their mark, and we highlight six of them in our February cover story. Elsewhere, we dive into a stunning comeback for hotel investment, how political upheaval is disrupting global capital flows and more in this week's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is doubling down on European debt with a big commitment to Arrow Global; GIC outlines how it is protecting its portfolio from climate risk; the co-founder of Asia logistics specialist LOGOS Property Group is striking out on his own; PERE is seeking your opinion on the upcoming US election; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Brookfield Asset Management reaches over $8 billion in commitments for Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners V, bringing the vehicle over halfway to its final target; Starwood forms a consortium of investors, including TPG-spinout credit platform Sixth Street Partners and New York investment firm SSW Partners, to propose a buyout of the Asian industrial giant ESR Group; PGIM Real Estate is targeting $2 billion for a global data center fund; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

PERE hosts its annual America Forum with two days of in-depth discussions in New York, Starwood joins a tight mega-fund race with the launch of Fund XIII, which has a big focus on data centers, this year’s Proptech 20 shows a slowdown in capital raising growth, we make a final call for PERE Awards submissions and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

The $1.4trn pension fund’s appointment of Asset Management One as gatekeeper underscores the crucial role intermediaries will play matching Japanese capital with Western managers.

NewQuest Capital Partners took the gong in Asia, while CalPERS and Strategic Partners clinched the top spot for Secondaries Deal of the Year in the Americas.