PIMCO Prime Real Estate

Generating alpha in today’s market means rolling up your sleeves and focusing on local considerations, says PIMCO Prime Real Estate’s Donato Saponara.

The manager of Allianz’s $89bn real estate mandate said the industry needs to be strategic about convincing investors to allocate to the asset class again.

Despite being buffeted by multiple crises over the last decade, the European real estate market was characterized by growing scale and specialization.

The PERE Podcast features an exclusive breakdown of the manager's latest real estate outlook with PIMCO Prime CEO Francois Trausch.

In its latest sector outlook, the asset manager advises investors to forego broad allocations and take a more targeted approach.

The ‘hype’ around the sector has led some executives to take a more cautious stance, members heard at the PERE Network Asia Summit last week.

Now is a good time to deploy capital in the region’s real estate markets, say participants in PERE’s European roundtable. But political risks still cloud the outlook.

The manager’s APAC head discusses the Trump administration’s impact on ESG during PERE’s second Global Advisory Board Insights webinar.

The strong growth of continuation vehicles signals that the real estate secondaries market has shed its reputation as a last resort for distress-driven strategies.