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Nuveen’s acquisition of London-based asset manager Schroders is slated to form a $2.5 trillion asset management titan with a private real estate exposure at around $172 billion. Madrid-based insurer Mapfre is looking to diversify its property portfolio and seek opportunities outside the office market, investment manager-owning listed brokers experience stock rout because of AI bubble fears and more in today’s digest, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

PERE's latest fundraising report, out this week, confirms how 2024 was an extraordinarily difficult year for real estate managers. Will things turn around in 2025? A string of mega-deals suggests buyers and sellers are finding common ground. Leading the way is Korea's NPS, with nearly $2.4 billion in commitments to a pair of real estate ventures. Elsewhere in the industry, AustralianSuper picks up a 50 percent stake in Oxford Properties' European logistics platform, GIC names its next Americas real estate chief, US multifamily managers land in regulators' crosshairs and more in this week's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Geopolitics and policy dominate the private real estate headlines this week as the property industry prepares for a second Trump administration, the fallout from a German political crisis, and how both could impact key moves by central banks around the world. Meanwhile, Blackstone makes a multi-billion-dollar bet on shopping centers; the PERE Network hosts its 19th annual America Forum; exclusive research provides fresh insight into the outlook for real estate allocations; and much more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

The waiting is over: PERE Deals, our exclusive news and data service, is officially live – as is PERE's latest fundraising report, which paints a less-than-rosy picture of the capital raising environment through the first nine months of the year. Elsewhere among this week's headlines, Brookfield and Panattoni fortify their positions in the red-hot logistics sector; UBS navigates another wave of redemption requests; PERE salutes private real estate's most influential women and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has upped its allocation to private real estate, despite being the only alternative asset class in the investor’s portfolio to record a dip in return during its 2023 fiscal year; Starwood nears halfway mark in its capital raise for Fund XIII, showing little impact from SREIT’s woes; HIG Capital wraps up its third European value-add fundraise, marking the largest fund targeting the region to close this year; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Los Angeles-based Ares Management is said to be on the cusp of buying a stake in GLP Capital Partners’ ex-China fund business, which has $66 billion of AUM in Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, the US and Brazil; BlackRock is diving deeper into the data center world by acquiring a stake in Germany's Mainova WebHouse GmbH; Carlyle is on track for what could be the biggest fundraise of 2024; Amsterdam-based Redevco has added another senior executive to its ranks; 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.

PIMCO’s Francois Trausch warns of a funding gap if rates do not come down amid a looming tsunami of refinancing; AXA IM Alts' Isabelle Scemama speaks out against the ESG pushback as the firm prioritizes returns amid efforts to decarbonize its global property portfolio; the ECB offers a note of calm on banks' exposure to real estate; and more in today’s special edition briefing from the PERE Network Decarb Forum and PERE Network Europe Forum, exclusively for our valued subscribers.