Fundraising: archive
Every Fundraising story in Real Estate, newest first. 216 stories
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FCA proposes 90-day redemption notice for funds holding illiquid assets
The consultation covers 17 funds with about £7.22 billion in combined net asset value and closes Dec. 11.
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Heitman and Andover seed self-storage JV with 106 properties
The venture spans 16 states and launches as Yardi Matrix reports new self-storage supply down nearly 19% year over year.
Clarion hires Magesh Srinivasan as senior vice president for power and energy strategy
He will work from Dallas across Clarion's leasing, development and investment teams to develop a portfolio-wide view of power availability and infrastructure constraints.
Dils puts Italian real estate investment at €10.6bn in first nine months of 2026
The total is 30 percent above the first nine months of 2025 and 62 percent above the average for the first nine months of the past 10 years, according to IREI's report on the Dils analysis.
Jonathan Rose hires Alix Rice to lead investor relations and capital formation
She joins from Jamestown, the $14 billion manager where she most recently headed institutional investor relations, according to IREI.
GPT Wholesale Office Fund markets two office assets to meet A$1.5 billion in redemptions
Google's Sydney headquarters is expected to attract about A$300 million and the CBW stake about A$400 million, against A$1.47 billion in accepted redemptions.
Conversant Capital closes debut opportunistic real estate fund at $845m
The commingled vehicle accounted for about $705 million of the total, clearing its $500 million target by more than 40 percent.
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Delaware statutory trust fundraising climbs 27% to $7.5B through September
September equity raised fell to $357 million from $461 million a year earlier, even as Ares Real Estate Exchange leads the sponsor table.
Ocean One project in Boynton Beach starts with Cantor, Silverstein equity and Madison debt
Silverstein Properties is both a development partner and, through affiliates, an equity provider on the 371-unit Boynton Beach project.
Texas TRS commits $150 million to Pennybacker's seventh value-add fund
The $233.5 billion pension has a 15 percent real estate target, and Pennybacker's seventh fund has no determined fundraising goal.
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Macquarie Capital takes a stake in Asia-Pacific data centre platform Zerra DC
The size of the investment was not disclosed, and AGP, which founded the platform, remains Zerra's majority shareholder.
Greater Baltimore Committee seeks $100 million from institutions for vacant housing
The committee is working with Enterprise Community Partners on terms ahead of a November launch; the sought $100 million would sit beside $1.2 billion in city and state money.
Buyers retrade pending CRE deals as September Fed hike lifts debt costs
A Midwest apartment buyer won a $600,000 discount on a $20 million contract after threatening to walk, the Journal reported.
Capital Square launches fourth Texas Active Living DST in New Braunfels
The all-cash offering holds a 72-home age-restricted community in New Braunfels that is 91.7% leased, with no target raise disclosed.
Fifth Wall's roughly 115 LPs include CBRE, Hilton, Hines and Marriott
Commercial Observer's profile of Brendan Wallace tallies about $3.1 billion across roughly 115 partners, a roster of property owners and operators that doubles as the firm's potential customer base.
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Hines names Adam Hines co-CEO starting next year; David Steinbach becomes president
Their father, Jeffrey Hines, becomes company chair, and Laura Hines-Pierce is set to chair Hines Global Income Trust's board.
Ares Secondaries adds to Sabey data center stake, cumulative commitment past $500 million
The follow-on builds on a July minority equity investment in a platform with 275 megawatts in service and a pipeline to roughly 737 megawatts by 2033.
Tishman Speyer adds $75m German pension commitment to Korea Living Venture
The second close lifts equity commitments to $395 million against a $400 million target after the vehicle's first purchase, a 411-unit property in Songdo.
Azora closes €1.6bn Southern Europe value-add fund with €450m co-investment
The fund drew more than €2.1 billion of institutional interest and had committed 55 percent of its equity before the final close.
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Massachusetts awards $330M in largest One Stop round to 403 projects
The state estimates the awards will help unlock $24.6 billion in private investment and support more than 27,000 new homes.
Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners completes Fund VII deployment with $135.8m
Industrial properties took 66 percent of the capital and apartments 34 percent, in equity checks of $5 million to $25 million.
LŌ-GOI Group establishes second Vietnam core logistics venture with three Asian investors
The mandate will buy income-producing logistics and industrial assets in Greater Hanoi and Greater Ho Chi Minh City rather than speculative development.
Phillips Edison adds $377.5 million of grocery centers to Northwestern Mutual joint venture
The amended venture runs a decade longer, to 2036, and keeps PECO leasing and managing the centers for recurring fees.
Partners Group and Empira launch €1 billion closed-end pan-European living fund
The vehicle targets €1 billion in equity commitments and draws on a combined real estate platform of more than 265 professionals and about $57 billion of gross asset value.
CoStar indexes show large property prices falling as smaller assets rise
The value-weighted composite fell 1.3% in August, a fifth straight monthly decline, while the equal-weighted measure rose 1.4%.
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Blue Owl secures close to $8bn net-lease fund as public pensions commit
The raise is the largest described in the IPE Real Assets briefing, which also has JP Morgan Asset Management above $1bn for a debut net-lease fund and three US public pension systems named as investors.
Ken Griffin closes $1.1 billion cash purchase of Moishe Mana's Wynwood portfolio
The land is counted inside a $3 billion Carnegie Mellon gift, three years after Mana rejected an $800 million offer and relented days later.
CPP Investments commits $309 million for 27% of Prestige's India hotel platform
The stake in Prestige Hospitality Ventures is the Canadian pension fund's first direct investment in Indian hospitality, and most of the capital will fund a six-city development pipeline.
Savills forecasts €156 billion in European property investment through Q3 2026
Central and Eastern Europe is expected to run 34 percent ahead of last year while Western Europe falls 5 percent.
RCLCO Fund Advisors and a.s.r. form cross-border real estate investment alliance
The two firms describe coordinated coverage of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, with no fund, commitment or fee terms named.
Redevco opens evergreen European retail parks fund with first close
The open-end vehicle follows a closed-end predecessor that raised more than €500 million in 2025 and has committed 80 percent of the capital.
Alma Property Partners raises €160m at first close for fourth Nordic value-add fund
Seven institutions from the Nordics and Germany, all existing Alma backers, committed to the vehicle, leaving €340 million of the €500 million target to raise.
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Stonelake closes eighth opportunistic real estate fund at $1 billion hard cap
The Texas firm cleared a $900 million target and says Stonelake VIII is the largest fund it has raised since its 2007 founding.
KKR's Chris Lee calls real estate 'regime change' while $85 billion book stays balanced
Lee tells the Walker Webcast that the roughly $85 billion real estate book splits almost evenly, with credit active across banks, insurers and opportunistic lending while equity is far more selective than in 2023.
Samsung commits $1 billion to KKR's Helix, lifting disclosed capital past $11 billion
Samsung's commitment comes through a long-duration fund for a platform covering data centers, power and connectivity.
Edens closes $850 million for retail; Declaration registers third real estate fund
One is a completed commitment for retail acquisitions and development; the other is a registration with no strategy disclosed and no dollars sold.
Inland Securities promotes Dan Gawley to senior vice president, private capital, for Southern California
The 12-year Inland veteran takes over distribution of DST, 721 exchange and opportunity zone programs in a territory that has raised $1.66 billion in equity over a decade.
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JLL and GA Group close $74.7 million sale-leaseback on 47 Family Dollar stores
The 387,945-square-foot portfolio spans 19 states and follows a $75 million, 46-property Family Dollar trade by the same two intermediaries earlier in the year.
Edens raises $850M in equity commitments for retail acquisitions and development
The Washington, D.C. developer did not disclose how the $850 million splits between buying assets and funding development.
Samsung commits $1 billion to KKR's Helix AI infrastructure platform
The commitment adds to the more than $10 billion committed at launch by founding investors including KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and Vistra.