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1 month ago | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
The IPE Real Estate Global Conference & Awards has long had an intentionally global focus – albeit with a strong European bias (it is always held in European cities). That international remit was confirmed on Thursday evening when National Pension Service of South Korea won the top accolade of Global Real Estate Investor of the Year.
But in a new era of heightened geopolitical tensions, US trade tariffs and potential deglobalisation, that domestic bias came to the fore.
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1 month ago | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
IPE Real Assets Membership
IPE Real Assets has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional real estate investment community.
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1 month ago | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
IPE Real Assets May/June 2025: Still waiting for a recovery
Global real estate fundraising fell off a cliff in 2023, a year characterised by major hikes in global interest rates as central banks sought to wrestle inflation under control. Last year the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank began to bring rates back down, but this was not enough to revive capital raising.
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1 month ago | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
IPE Real Assets Membership
IPE Real Assets has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional real estate investment community.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
As the rain lashed Boulevard de la Croisette and lightning briefly lit up the tightly connected streets of Cannes, the real estate industry was reminded that it was not operating in ‘normal times’. MIPIM, held every March in the South of France, is usually relied upon to provide two things: a barometer for the real estate investment market at the start of the year and a sun-soaked antidote to the cold and dark winters experienced by many of its attendees.
This week, neither was provided.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
Geopolitics, Donald Trump and the conflict in Ukraine dominated discussions among some of the world’s largest pension, insurance and sovereign wealth funds at the annual RE-Invest Summit in Cannes this week.
Investors from across Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East convened once again to discuss the most pressing issues as part of the annual MIPIM real estate trade fair in the south of France.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard LoweMarch |Richard Lowe
IPE Real Assets Membership
IPE Real Assets has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional real estate investment community.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard LoweMarch |Richard Lowe
Real estate markets seemed to finally be mounting a recovery at the end of 2024. In Europe, transaction volumes reached €55.6bn in Q4, according to MSCI – the highest quarterly figure in two years. Real estate investors therefore headed into 2025 with a sense of optimism, with one eye on falling interest rates and the return to transactional activity.
But it quickly became apparent that 2025 was not going to play ball.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe |Jon Peterson
Blackstone’s US$55bn (€52.8bn) infrastructure business was the “largest single contributor” to the private equity firm’s fourth quarter results, according to president Jon Gray.
Speaking during a quarterly earnings call, Gray said assets under management of Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP) had risen 34% over 12 months, establishing “one of the world’s largest infrastructure businesses” in a “relatively short period of time”.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
realassets.ipe.com | Richard Lowe
The UK government has announced it is backing the expansion of Europe’s busiest airport, which is owned by French infrastructure fund manager Ardian and several global sovereign wealth and pension funds.
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves said today that the development of a third runway at Heathrow Airport would “unlock further growth, boost investment, increase exports and make the UK more open and more connected”.
