Fundraising: archive
Every Fundraising story in Real Estate, newest first. 215 stories
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Data centers become a 25-year refresh cycle
PwC's baseline treats data centers as repeated capital spending, with the site and its power supply as the appreciating asset.
Aviva hands a CBRE IM veteran a 450,000-square-foot industrial pipeline
George Richards arrives with a development mandate that tests whether origination beats buying stabilized assets.
Sound Point names Cerberus veteran to lead CRE credit fundraising
The dedicated fundraising title indicates Sound Point will ask institutions to back its commercial real estate credit strategy separately.
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CRE's cheap-buying window closes, and operators take the trade
With valuations firm and rate relief slipping, the income statement is where CRE value gets made.
ROAD Act’s financing runway runs through incentives, not appropriations
The new housing law adds no direct federal money, so its capital impact hinges on whether incentives and regulatory reforms can move private development capital.
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Opportunity Zone deferral cliff brings $29 billion tax tab
The original OZ cohort faces a year-end deadline that will force appraisal fights, capital calls, and hold-sell decisions the program never priced in.
KKR and IMM back SK Telecom's data center spin-off
A $2.2 billion check from KKR and a South Korean consortium is a bet that power and land, not compute, are the scarce assets in the AI buildout.
NexPoint's Marina II DST puts $49 million on two marinas
The two-property offering is a narrow test of whether marinas belong in the DST pipeline.
Blackstone pares Knowledge Realty stake in $1.26B offer
The offer for sale gives Blackstone an asymmetric exit and tests how much secondary supply India's listed REIT market will absorb.
Listed REITs have turned the corner while private real estate still lags
Principal's $107 billion real estate chief says the public market has moved into expansion, and private appraisals are 12 to 18 months behind.
Anchor capital now costs a slice of the carry
With fundraising flat through the first half, the institutions still writing big checks are demanding a share of the sponsor's own economics, not just fee relief.
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Morgenroth leaves Gothaer for Austria's largest real estate firm
The high-profile move from insurer to operator points to where European real estate talent is being built.
Swiss Life raises €265m for second logistics fund
A second fund turns a logistics strategy into a business, and the €265m puts a price on the manager's conviction.
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Asia Investment Partners launches third Japan care fund
The Tokyo-Denver manager is raising institutional capital for a ¥75 billion nursing-home vehicle over the next three years.
AEW's dislocation fund exposes the new patience
At 55% deployed after a two-year fundraise, AEW's North American fund has learned the crash is still being financed.
Illinois’s second Opportunity Zone round bets on compliance and rural yield
The state’s second Opportunity Zone round adds reporting requirements and rural incentives to court private real estate allocators.
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KKR sizes the $5.1T middle-market CRE capital gap
Middle-market sponsors control nearly a quarter of U.S. commercial real estate and almost none of the capital vehicles that fit them; KKR's report is a bid to define the template.
The bid-credit gap is closing as buyers catch up
JLL's July indices show the buyer side finally moving toward the lender side, and the narrowing spread — not the record credit levels — is the number to watch.
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Latter-day Saints turn $20B land bank into Sun Belt building spree
A balance-sheet developer with no LP clock is outbuilding private equity across the fastest-growing U.S. markets.
Credit is back, but buyers are still catching up
JLL's July indices show lenders at a record and buyers at a one-year high, leaving the spread between them to decide the rest of the year.
McKinney's $300M amphitheater nears completion without a sponsor
The 20,000-seat venue's public-private structure is fully subscribed, but its revenue side still lacks a naming-rights sponsor and an opening act.
Data-center deals drive July CRE volume to a two-decade high
A $33.8 billion data-center month propped up an otherwise flat market — and reveals where the capital cycle is heading.
Harrison Street signs on for interval-fund auction liquidity
A periodic auction through Nasdaq and LODAS would give advisers a second exit from semi-liquid real asset funds.
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Aberdeen's £700M hybrid is a lifeline for open-ended property
The proposed merger creates a £700M global hybrid from a £522M UK retail fund and a £229M global portfolio, with a listed-share sleeve to absorb redemptions before direct property has to be sold.
Aberdeen's £700M merger bets on hybrid real estate
A proposed three-fund combination would mix direct property and listed REITs in a single vehicle—a structure that could become a template.
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Waterford breaks ground on 75-unit Milpitas affordable project
The project uses 4% low-income housing tax credits and private activity bonds, with Pacific Housing Inc. providing on-site services.
M&G's first social-rent buy is a mandate shift
The £29 million deal moves the Affordable Living Fund into the deepest affordability tier for the first time.
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Hines pivots from buying to building as supply collapses
The $92B manager is betting a global construction freeze has created a scarcity advantage acquisitions can't match.
The $1.3 trillion data center debt club
Atrium's new platform exposes the syndicates behind Coreweave, DigitalBridge and the hyperscalers, and the construction-cost squeeze that comes with them.
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Avison Young's recap turns lenders into owners
With a 70% debt-to-equity swap and a credit line attached, the war chest is an acquisition mandate as much as a balance-sheet repair.
Brixton Bets on the Sponsor-Replacement Trade
The new multifamily investment-management platform is a low-cost option on the cycle's quiet distress.
Nvidia's Cloverleaf bet: power is the scarce input
The chipmaker's stake in a power-intermediation firm is a bet that electricity, not silicon, now gates the AI data center buildout.
CIM's Tysons sale puts a $168/SF marker on office distress
Finmarc's repeat buying shows the bid for suburban office is local and vacancy-tolerant, even as CIM simplifies its balance sheet for a public path.
Invesco prices its redemption queue at 95 cents
The $12.7B ICRE fund offers fee cuts and a discounted tender to avoid a forced sale, pricing the exit before the market prices the buildings.
Actis-backed TERRANOVA breaks ground on a liquid-cooled AI campus in Brazil
Private capital's data-center push reaches Latin America as TERRANOVA starts work in Campinas.
Inland closes a fully subscribed $28M QOZ fund
A six-project developer relationship and a named contractor carried the raise; QOZ investors are paying for execution, not just tax deferral.
Hines calls a buying window in half of global markets
The firm's report says half its markets are priced to buy, but the 6.5 million-unit housing gap is the call with staying power.
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One Orchard launches InfraMed, a healthcare infrastructure platform seeded with 25 assets
The new holding company's first platform launches with an existing 25-asset medical outpatient portfolio and Pantheon as its lead institutional backer.
REDICO and One Orchard launch InfraMed Properties, a medical outpatient platform
The platform targets more than $1 billion in medical outpatient properties. It starts with a 25-property portfolio.
Peachtree passes $525 million in DSTs with hotel and industrial deals
Its 14th and 15th DST offerings put a Port Canaveral hotel beside a Cummins-leased St. Louis warehouse.