How have top-down and bottom-up allocation strategies influenced real estate investment and performance during the past 40-odd years? by Dominic Smith If the real estate investment industry is engaged in a culture war, then the analysis you are about to read might prove to be unpopular with one side or — more likely, both sides of it.
SPONSORED: UBS Asset Management – Selecting promising European markets for life sciences real estate by Jennifer Babcock A nexus of education, capital and companies. The cluster effect. Reciprocal tariffs. These are some of the factors investors in life sciences real estate consider when evaluating one investment market against another.
SPONSORED: Slate Asset Management – Defensive and value-added opportunities in essential real estate by Jennifer Babcock Citing a grocery store, Sven Vollenbruch, managing director, who leads the European investment team within Slate Asset Management, defines essential real estate as properties that blur the line between retail and logistics.
Transactions GREYKITE’S €275m multi-let industrial platform expands into Germany GREYKITE European Real Estate Fund I and its affiliates, in strategic partnership with troveinvest, has signed…
Investors FrontRange Capital Partners, O’Connor Capital Partners launch $150m programmatic venture to develop triple-net leased retail assets FrontRange Capital has formed a $150 million programmatic joint venture with O’Connor Capital Partners to…
People Maryland State Retirement System appoints Robert Burd acting CIO The Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (SRPS) board of trustees has named Robert “Bob”…
Investors CalPERS commits $1.4b to core real estate investments by Elise Mackanych The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has committed $1.4 billion to four real estate investment vehicles, including TechCore, Core Property Index Fund, Global Retail Investors and U.S. Affordable Housing Fund.
Investors SWIB commits to FPA Core Plus Fund VI and Digital Realty DC Partners by Elise Mackanych The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has committed $200 million to real estate funds, including FPA Core Plus Fund VI and Digital Realty DC Partners.
Resource Center Platform Ventures’ Ariana Nelson on the growing interest in cold storage within investment portfolios
Fundraising Realterm exceeds target on second value-added Pan-European transportation logistics real estate fund at more than €470m Realterm has held a final closing of its closed-end, value-added, Pan-European Realterm Europe Logistics Fund…
People Harrison Street makes new appointments for Tokyo office Harrison Street has appointed Penny Christy as managing director and global head of investor services,…
Transactions MARK Capital Management to scale delivery partner Assembly into Pan-European development platform MARK Capital Management, a Pan-European real estate investment manager, is strengthening its Pan-European third-party services offering…
Transactions Core Spaces acquires 486-bed student housing community near University of South Carolina by Released Core Spaces has acquired The Nine at Columbia, a 141-unit, 486-bed community adjacent to the University of South Carolina.
Transactions Blackstone buys mall in India for $376m by Andrea Zander Blackstone has acquired South City Mall in Kolkata, India, for INR 32.5 billion ($376.8 million) from property developer South City Projects, according to media outlets.
