Principal Real Estate is a top 10 global real estate manager1 with $102bn in assets under management as of 30 September 2024. Providing access to capabilities across the spectrum of public and private equity and debt, our in-depth market knowledge, experienced teams, and extensive connections across all four quadrants of real estate, help us to maximise opportunities and find the best relative value on behalf of our clients.

Principal Real Estate built its reputation as a knowledgeable and trusted adviser to institutional investors on six decades of commercial real estate experience2. We adopt a consultative partnership approach with clients, providing choice and customisation to help meet any unique risk and return objective.

With seasoned teams of investment professionals around the globe in the United States, Europe, Singapore, and Australia delivering comprehensive research and market coverage, clients can benefit from our distinct 360° perspective of real estate space and capital markets.

We provide a range of investment capabilities from traditional core strategies to opportunistic property development and redevelopment.

  • Core and core-plus
  • Value-add and development
  • Traditional property sectors
  • Specialist property sectors
  • Data centres
  • Hotels
  • Residential
  • Healthcare

In Europe, we have long-standing relationships in most major markets and are able to access real-time market information, track deal flow, and understand regional market dynamics.

1 Managers ranked by total worldwide real estate assets (net of leverage, including contributions committed or received, but not yet invested; REOCs are included with equity; REIT securities are excluded), as of 30 June 2024. ‘The Largest Real Estate Investment Managers’, Pensions & Investments, 7 October 2024.

2 Principal Real Estate Investors became registered with the SEC in November 1999. Activities noted prior to this date were conducted beginning with the real estate investment management area of Principal Life Insurance Company and later Principal Capital Real Estate Investors, LLC, the predecessor firm to Principal Real Estate Investors.

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