Fundraising: archive
Every Fundraising story in Real Estate, newest first. 216 stories
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The Fed repriced duration, and the refinancing wall got longer
A 4.1% median policy rate through 2027 moves the refinance past the exit dates most deals were written to.
A 5 percent 10-year sorts CRE buyers from CRE bystanders
A unanimous quarter-point hike and a dot plot leaning toward another move hand the refinancing wall to whoever can write equity, not whoever can borrow.
Brookfield buys the data center builder, not the data center
A minority stake in American Real Estate Partners puts Brookfield upstream of the buildings, in the development work that now decides what digital infrastructure gets built.
Real estate equity now forms around the deal, not the blind pool
A zero-dollar sidecar, a $300 million raise that came back unchanged, and a $1.1 billion credit close describe a market assembling capital after the exposure is known.
LNL taps Ares net-lease founder for structured capital build
A $15 billion net-lease record moves to a firm that has not said whether it will raise third-party money or run the strategy on its own balance sheet.
Affordable housing equity is a bank product, and CIM-BGV knows it
Fifth Third joins Truist and Flagstar inside the CIM-BGV affordable housing fund. The next close will show whether the bank roster can widen beyond the three already in the room.
UBS hands its U.S. consultant book to a career fundraiser
The succession puts a distribution specialist in a seat where allocator patience, not asset selection, is the binding constraint.
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Opportunity zones 2.0 turns state nominations into the scarcest form of capital
With $112B already raised in the program's first round and a Sept. 28 nomination deadline, a state's map, not an investor's tax bill, decides which projects get financed.
The 5% 10-year changes who can hold real estate debt
At 5%, the refinancing queue gets more expensive to roll, and the vehicles that can wait out a maturity take share from the ones that cannot.
Starwood puts a hotel operator in Europe's asset-management chair
Promoting a hospitality executive into Starwood's European asset-management role is a bet that the work after closing will decide the next leg of returns.
Heitman puts one Seoul desk over equity and debt
A single sales hire is a cheap option on Korean institutional capital, and putting both platforms under one desk suggests the pitch is already combined.
CIM rehires the architect of its opportunity zones platform
The appointment carries a title and no capital detail, and that silence is the read on where the platform goes next.
LogiPropCo's third JV buys buildings, not land
The industrial developer's first acquisition-focused institutional vehicle puts two regional sourcing heads at the center of the strategy—a tell about where value-add industrial capital thinks the constraint sits.
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Hamilton Point staffs up for DST shelf space
A 15-year Inland wholesaler with a nearly $2 billion raise on his record is the scarce input in the 1031 business, and HPI just bought one.
Embrey's $5 billion says the block is the underwriting unit
Karam's corner-by-corner supply discipline is the frame generalist apartment LPs will spend the next two years catching up to.
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Canada's U.S. real estate bid is outgrowing the trade war
The $9 billion total still trails the five-year average, but the share shift behind it points to where Canadian apartment and industrial capital goes next.
Data center IPOs hand construction risk back to public equity
What is coming to market is the development pipeline rather than stabilized portfolios, and its pricing will supply the reference point for private data center marks.
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J.P. Morgan's second net lease fund clears $1.1 billion
The raise is a distribution result dressed as an industrial thesis, and the second vintage is where that becomes clear.
The retrade is how a frozen multifamily market clears
A bank-owned Midwest apartment community and a 75-basis-point move in the 10-year show how the cycle's first trades get priced.
Starlight closes £680m UK rental fund with Homes England inside
Capital from three continents and a Homes England commitment make the operating team, not the land, the scarce input in UK build-to-rent.
Prime Tokyo office pays 10 basis points over the Japanese government bond
With the Bank of Japan still climbing, a 3.1 percent entry cap against a 3 percent JGB pushes the whole underwriting onto rent growth and an exit Oxford expects to price wider.
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A regional bank lent 78% on a White Plains grocery center
The 78.4% loan-to-price on City Center says retail debt hasn't vanished so much as sorted itself by tenant roster, and centers with full rosters still borrow on ordinary terms.
Starlight closes £680m UK build-to-rent fund with Homes England alongside
The raise pairs global institutional money with Homes England's National Housing Bank — the pairing LPs will start demanding in every UK build-to-rent capital structure.
DST sales slip 10.6% as the launch shelf thins
Delaware statutory trust fundraising has cleared $6.48 billion through August, but the month's new offerings were too small to restock a channel selling $881 million a month.
Data centers are turning truck yards into a land trade
Institutional capital's share of IOS investment has climbed to 45 percent from 30 percent in four years, and the demand pulling it in is construction staging — a use that ends when the buildout does.
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MCB's $420M TIF unlocks $2.7B VIVA White Oak
A county's first-ever TIF district will fund public infrastructure for a 280-acre Maryland mixed-use project with more than 4,700 residential units planned.
Harrison Street builds a fundraising bench for infrastructure and credit
Three Investor Solutions Group hires position the $110 billion property manager to raise capital beyond traditional real estate as it sells down assets.
HUD gives private capital a dated entry point into public housing
Section 18's expansion touches 270,000 pre-1950 units; the real edge is the 15-year LIHTC cohort now carrying a firm conversion date.
J.P. Morgan closes oversubscribed net lease fund at $1.1B
A majority of the capital came from investors new to the firm's real estate Americas platform, showing the distribution value of the Trio acquisition.
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WNC closes 23rd California LIHTC fund at $66.3M
The Irvine sponsor's latest vehicle finances 650 family homes across three counties and proves its 55-year California strategy still has allocator legs.
Berkadia's $12.4M LIHTC close opens a Wallick pipeline
A 52-unit South Haven, Michigan, deal puts Berkadia into Wallick Development's pipeline for the first time.
Blue Owl's data center REIT is a pricing event
A $6.5 billion seed would put a public number on private data center valuations.
I Squared backs Saragon data center launch with $1B
A $225 million cash purchase of ten Cogent facilities seeds a nine-market, 53-megawatt bet on densifying urban AI inference capacity.
Vital fully subscribes $9.7M DST, its third since 2024
The third fully subscribed sub-$10 million healthcare DST since 2024 suggests RIAs and independent broker-dealers are a repeat source of capital.
Azora Private sells a Coconut Grove office as 20 stories of zoning
A Coconut Grove office acquired for $47.5m sells for $62.3m less than a year later, the $14.8m spread owed to twelve added stories of residential entitlement.
TEP packs 98 federal leases into one $450 million stack
Centennial Bank and Eagle Point priced the portfolio as a single government-tenant credit; the question now is whether that structure travels to acquisitions.
CIM pulls PIMCO workout pro onto real estate equity desk
Adam Lerer, PIMCO Prime Real Estate's former head of special situations, will source deals across CIM's core and value-add strategies.
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Cincinnati sets a record first half with gains in every sector
An all-sectors record in an interior market suggests the resolution of maturing debt is turning into trades. The next six months will determine how much it means.
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Blue Owl's data center REIT is a known-book bet
A $6.5 billion seed of existing assets would turn Blue Owl's private data center book into permanent public equity, testing whether investors pay for a known portfolio rather than a blind pool.
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Becknell hires LaSalle veteran to build its REIT selling group
For a young private trust, the selling group is the capital plan.