Fundraising: archive
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Manhattan investment sales run ahead of 2025 pace as BKREA questions dollar volume
First-half 2026 volume of $10.173 billion puts the borough on a $20.346 billion annual pace, but BKREA argues the count of properties sold, tracked since 1984, is the number that separates a busier market from pricier deals.
BNP Paribas AM Alts pitches European housing as a rearmament trade
Germany's €600 billion defense and infrastructure program would shift jobs and population, lifting housing demand once industrial and logistics assets absorb the first wave.
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Arbor South receives final state approval for 20-acre Ann Arbor project
The mixed-use plan carries more than 1,000 apartments and condominiums, 100,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a hotel.
Thompson Thrift identifies six projects across five states, including a first in Montana
The Indianapolis developer's ninth multi-project partnership targets $200 million to $230 million for class A apartments.
Elevest Capital launches Fund 70 to buy a Dallas multifamily tower
The Scottsdale firm is raising $19.1 million for the $42 million purchase of the 229-unit, 35-story tower, projecting a 15.6 percent IRR over a two-to-five-year hold.
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Georgia-Pacific abandons Atlanta conversion as diesel and materials costs break budgets
Construction materials prices rose 13.3% year over year and diesel topped $6.50 a gallon at an all-time high, according to industry and federal data.
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Public pensions are buying the apartment supply gap through a closed-end fund
Six public retirement systems and a $158 million Connecticut acquisition reveal more about this vintage than the $2 billion target.
GCM Grosvenor seeds Hyperion's grocery retail fund with $200M
The $97B asset manager takes a board seat and a value-add pipeline in Western markets, wagering that grocery anchors hold their pricing power while the rest of retail reprices.
PCCP's $5 billion is a bet on one committee, two sleeves
Both flagship funds cleared their hard caps, and the split between $2.7 billion of equity and $2.3 billion of value-add debt says more about this cycle than the headline total does.
GCM Grosvenor anchors Hyperion's grocery retail vehicle and joins its board
Up to half the equity from a single institution, plus a director's seat, changes what kind of fund Hyperion Grocery Retail Partners III is.
Westwind seeds a €200m debut with Spanish student beds
The first close buys a Spanish student portfolio and a reference price that every later bid has to clear.
Debt fund closings thinned, but the sizes held
One $1 billion first-quarter close and a $1.3 billion second-quarter hard cap, with 72 debt funds still marketing, left a shortfall measured in closings rather than dollars.
CRE owners are choosing capex over price discovery
With 46% of Deloitte's respondents expecting no sales and nearly 80% planning repositioning, the survey describes a market that has stopped setting marks.
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Los Angeles Bets $466.6M That Subsidy Pulls Private Capital
The second Homes for LA round is bigger than the first and slower to arrive, handing the carrying cost to sponsors who can sit through the calendar.
KSE's $135 million Ball Arena renovation is the small half of the district trade
The renovation has a price and an architect; the neighborhood on the parking lots has neither, and that is where the capital actually has to be raised.
Thompson Thrift raises ninth fund on a construction-market call
Six identified projects in five states narrow selection risk for the $200 million to $230 million vehicle, but all six clear into the same delivery window.
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Brookings prices the AI build-out and cuts 227 gigawatts from the pipeline
A Brookings paper puts the AI capital program at $10.3 trillion and assumes 227 gigawatts of proposed data-center capacity never gets built, a downside case with a unit cost sponsors can hold against their own pro formas.
A 56-unit debut prices the apartment bid's income half
Tower's first Jersey City purchase pairs Lakerock equity with a five-year fixed loan, trading the rent roll for a sponsor history this market has not yet seen.
Red Oak's reorg is packaging for a $35 million preferred raise
Oak gets a Delaware issuer and a $35 million preferred offering; its credit funds, where the economics live, stay undescribed.
RREEF's wind-down is a verdict on subscale nontraded REITs
A liquidation priced over 24 months will convert one trust's appraisal into the marks its apartment-heavy peers and gated open-end funds have to answer.
JLL takes the refinancing wall to retail
A blind-pool debt REIT with an 85% LTV subordinated sleeve looks well-aimed at a market where 11.42% of CMBS loans are in special servicing—and the terms leave the duration with the buyer.
Proterra staffs a fundraising build with a credit specialist
The résumé in the capital-formation seat is a product decision; the release names no fund, target or close to contradict it.
Blackstone builds a 1031 exchange shelf from BREIT's $120 billion book
A fully subscribed first DST turns two Sun Belt apartment buildings into product for owners with a sale already in motion.
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Northmarq buys a fund manager's recurring fee
A national placement desk now owns a registered income fund, and the management contract is the part that compounds.
Sightbridge hires the diligence gate before it has a product
Two distribution hires land months ahead of the first tax-advantaged program, and the job descriptions say the firm knows which seat is load-bearing.
Savills IM hands fundraising and IR to a 13-year AEW veteran
The client capital appointment lands days after Bank of Italy approval for a standalone Italian lending platform and exits from two long-held retail assets.
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RREEF Trust's $200M wind-down tests what gated NAV marks are worth
A diversified portfolio sold into a market where almost nobody else is selling will convert an appraisal into evidence.
RREEF's wind-down is the supply event discretionary sellers avoided
A $203 million NAV REIT that never found fresh capital is selling a decade of assembled assets into a market where almost nobody else is selling.
Ares and PSP are buying origination, the scarcest input in logistics
With supply at a decade low, the joint venture's returns will be set by what Marq Logistics can source rather than by the size of the check behind it.
A $30 million LIHTC check fills 38 percent of Mesquite's senior stack
The affordable senior financing path runs through credit equity and a pair of bank desks, and the size of the equity layer decides how many of these get built.
Avila's $390 million close says the scarce homebuilding asset is credit, not land
An insurer and a university endowment backed the lot pipeline, buying exposure that ends when finished lots move to a builder.
The record half did not need a rate cut
First-half sales volume rose 14.7 percent with the policy rate far above its pre-2022 norm, evidence that equity spreads, not the Fed, now set the clearing price.
The Sept. 28 list won’t decide where OZ money lands
New York will file its recommended Opportunity Zone tracts by the deadline, but the underwriting that the federal permanence and the state’s restored abatements unlock is what decides whether round two reaches the tracts round one missed.
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DWS liquidates RREEF Property Trust as redemptions outrun new capital
Seven properties and 1.4 million square feet go to market on a 24-month clock; the leftovers will price what a gated nontraded REIT is actually worth.
Invel and LGT take 49% of PRODEA's Greek logistics platform
A €31 million minority stake buys a portfolio whose ambition runs above €500 million in gross development value, and the gap between the two numbers is the entire trade.
Transparency now sets where CRE capital can go
JLL's 2026 index concentrates more than 80% of global direct investment in 13 markets, while the sectors drawing the most money — alternatives and credit — still price off benchmark proxies.
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Blackstone's BPP secondary would price what the quarterly gate cannot
A discount on $11 billion of core NAV becomes the reference point every open-end real estate fund still marking to appraisal has to argue against.
Ares and PSP commit $2.4 billion to logistics deal flow
The fourteen seed buildings are the demonstration; the venture's returns will track the deals Marq Logistics can find.
Time Equities sells ground-up multifamily risk to TIC investors at 5.75%
A tenant-in-common offering for a Boynton Beach tower that broke ground in September prices construction equity at a coupon that only works with a ten-year tax abatement behind it.
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Ares and PSP put $2.4 billion behind a sourcing network
The seed is fourteen buildings; the investment is Marq's pipeline—the distinction institutional industrial capital now pays for.