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LACERS makes inaugural real estate private credit commitment | News | Real Assets

1 week ago | realassets.ipe.com | Jon Peterson

Mavik Real Estate Special Opportunities VS2 secures $25m from LACERS
Weekly Data Sheet - 30 May 2025

1 week ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Romanian developer Iulius and investor Atterbury Europe have secured the largest financing ever granted to a real estate development in Romania, having received a €400m loan for the Rivus Cluj-Napoca mixed-use urban redevelopment project. The green financing was provided by a consortium of Erste Bank, Banca Comercială Română, the EBRD and BRD Groupe Société Générale. The Rivus project plans to redevelop 14ha of a former industrial site into retail, office, culture and entertainment space.
Mass PRIM commits $250m to US real estate via DivcoWest, BGO

1 week ago | realassets.ipe.com | Jon Peterson

Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (Mass PRIM) has placed $250m (€221.3m) into US real estate fund strategies managed by DivcoWest and BGO. The $110bn pension fund disclosed in a board meeting document that it has committed $75m to the DivCore Fund VII US fund, with an additional $75m in co-investment capital to be deployed alongside it. Mass PRIM also approved a $100m commitment to the BGO US Value-Add Lending Fund II.
IPE Real Estate Conference: Can Europe act as a global safe haven?

1 week 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.
Weekly Data Sheet - 23 May 2025

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Virna Asara

Global real estate manager Hines has inked the sale of a mixed retail and office complex in Italy to the family office of Japanese billionaire Tadashi Yanai, founder and chief executive of Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing. The sale of the Cordusio 2.0 asset for more than €300m is said to represent a record low yield for Milan prime offices of 3.5%. The historic building is in Milan’s central Piazza Cordusio, where Uniqlo’s flagship store has been since 2019.
Kansas PERS commits additional capital to Brookfield infrastructure fund

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Jon Peterson

Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) has approved a $140m (€123.4m) follow-on commitment to Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners, building on its earlier $75m allocation to the global infrastructure fund in 2022. The pension fund disclosed in a meeting document that its initial investment in the Brookfield-managed fund now amounts to $83.4m and has generated a one-year gross internal rate of return of 11.1%.
Mesirow raises $1.2bn for new US apartment investment fund

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Jon Peterson

Mesirow Institutional Real Estate Direct has raised $1.245bn (€1.1bn) for its latest US apartment fund. The capital raised for the Mesirow Financial Real Estate Value Fund V exceeded the fund’s $1bn target and $1.2bn hard cap.
CapitaLand and Chinese insurer launch RMB5bn China fund

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Florence Chong

CapitaLand Investment and a Chinese insurance company are to invest RMB5bn (€613m) to establish a real estate master fund in China. CapitaLand said the unnamed Chinese institution has taken up a majority stake in the CLI RMB Master Fund which will invest in a series of sub-funds, managed by CapitaLand. These sub-trusts will acquire high-quality, income-producing assets with long-term growth potential, including business parks, retail, rental housing and serviced residences.
PIMCO’s European data centre fund nears €1bn target

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Jon Peterson

PIMCO’s European data centre fund had secured approximately €800m as of February this year, real estate investment consultant NEPC disclosed in a board meeting document for the Ventura County Employees’ Retirement Association (VCERA). According to the document, VCERA intends to approve and issue a $30m (€26.7m) commitment this month to PIMCO European Data Center Opportunity Fund, a fund seeking to raise €1bn.
NEST seeds IFM Investors European infrastructure debt fund with €530m

2 weeks ago | realassets.ipe.com | Razak Musah Baba

UK workplace pension scheme NEST has provided €530m in seed capital to a new European infrastructure debt fund managed by IFM Investors, as part of its plan to invest £5bn (€5.9bn) in private markets through the manager over the next five years.