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Top 10 with… Interview with our experts on life sciences
With a strong long-term growth potential and a distinct social angle, the life sciences sector is developing at a fast pace. Forward-thinking investors are looking for ways to enter this growing niche sector. But access is selective, and industry expertise isn’t enough to be successful. What does it take?
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European Sale-Leaseback: A Timely, Strategic Opportunity in Europe
This paper, the third in our series, explores why European Sale and Leaseback (SLB) investments are especially compelling at this point in the economic cycle. With appealing day-one income yields, a strong deal pipeline, and a favourable macroeconomic environment, we believe European SLBs offer an attractive opportunity for investors.
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A Positive Prognosis for the Healthcare Property Sector
A segment within the Alternative properties sector, healthcare real estate (life sciences, medical facilities, and seniors housing real estate) is benefitting greatly from the growing demand for healthcare research and services fueled by the aging of the massive Baby Boomer age cohort.
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U.S. Commercial Real Estate Investable Universe Study
The goal of this analysis is to provide investors with a benchmark for the size and scale of the U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) market, individual property sectors and the “institutional” quality portion of the market. Up to this point, published estimates on the size of the commercial real estate investable universe primarily focus on country-level global comparisons, taking a top-down approach to estimate the size of the overall commercial real estate market in each region.
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The Endurance of U.S. Rental Housing Investments
Over the past decade, U.S. multifamily has been among the most sought-after sectors by institutional investors due to its necessity characteristic, the underlying strength of property-level fundamentals, and high historic risk-adjusted total returns.
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AI and its impact on real estate
Artificial intelligence (AI) — what was once a mere buzzword is now reshaping industries and creating an environment ripe with investment opportunities. This transformative force is driving efficiency and innovation across industries and sectors, including real estate. We think AI has the potential to enhance investment processes and add diversity to investment strategies. Asset managers who strategically integrate AI into their operations can gain a competitive edge, and they risk falling behind if they don’t.
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Asset Manager News
Hines Expands Asia Platform with New Value-Add Strategy
Hines, the global real estate investment, development, and property manager, today announced the intention to launch a diversified close-ended, value-add real estate strategy, to be known as Hines Asia Real Estate Partners (HAREP). HAREP intends to leverage economic and secular growth trends as well as Hines’ active management and operational excellence to achieve its objectives.
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The U.S. Office Debt Opportunity
We see a compelling thesis, with multiple complementary investment approaches, forming for investors around the office sector’s current and anticipated capital needs.
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People News
Hines Hires Former Head of Carlyle Private Wealth
Experienced leader tapped to build out firm’s growing global private wealth solutions platform
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2023 ESG Report
At Hines, we strive to be the best – and most innovative – real estate investment, development, and management firm in the world. Over the years, ESG has become an increasingly critical part of our thinking and planning for the future of Hines.
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Retail’s Next Act: Could a right sized retail sector offer a compelling risk-adjusted opportunity for real estate investors?
Hines believes a transformed retail sector has emerged after years of turmoil. Investors may very well have missed that brick-and-mortar retail fundamentals have been performing surprisingly well. This, combined with robust job and wage growth, strong consumer sentiment and stabilizing global inflation levels are all signals that the fundamental turnaround in retail should continue.
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KGAL acquires wind farm in Rhineland-Palatinate
KGAL Investment Management is pleased to announce that it has acquired three wind turbines near Perscheid, Rhineland-Palatinate. The wind farm is the first investment in an individual mandate, in which KGAL is advising the Software AG Foundation (SAGST). The wind farm, currently under construction, has a total capacity of 17.1 megawatts (MW) and is scheduled to go into operation in spring 2025. The seller is BayWa r.e.
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UK Real Estate: Talking Points October 2024
Welcome to our quarterly snapshot of current real estate market trends, using transparent capital and occupational market data points to summarise key implications for asset allocation and performance prospects.
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Hines Opens Office in Jeonju, South Korea
Hines, a leading global real estate investment manager, today announced the opening of a new office in Jeonju, South Korea. This strategic expansion reflects Hines’ commitment to strengthening its partnership with South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and helping to foster the development of Jeonju’s financial sector.
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2024 GRESB Results Show Hines’ Leadership in Sustainability Globally
Four Flagship Funds, One Separate Account and Three Direct Investments Earn the Highest Rating of Five Out of Five Stars. Five out of five European discretionary funds recognized as global sector leaders.
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Four-quadrant report
Insight into U.S. commercial real estate opportunities. Impact of economic, political, and investment trends on the four quadrants of real estate.
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Listed infrastructure: a missing piece in your portfolio
Investing in essential service providers, which are integral to our daily lives, results in unique investment characteristics that can diversify your portfolio across market cycles. The defensive growth profile of the asset class complements equities, fixed income, and private infrastructure. Integrating GLI into a traditional 60/40 portfolio by substituting 10% of equities holds the potential to provide similar returns while lowering overall portfolio risk.
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Geopolitics and life sciences real estate: The impact on supply chains and the role in creating investment opportunities
Earlier this summer, we made the case that the real estate assets meeting the needs of the life sciences industry in Europe had the potential to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors.
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Hines Acquires Office Building in Seoul’s Digital Media City
Hines, a leading global real estate investment manager, today announced the acquisition of a fully stabilized office building in Seoul, South Korea. This sale and leaseback transaction highlights the firm’s deep local expertise and its focus on deals with alpha potential.
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Real Estate Perspectives
Has Alternative Real Estate Become The New Core Real Estate? We’ve been through a series of repeated crises over the past four years. The unprecedented market context has reshuffled the cards between asset classes, and alternative real estate has emerged on the back of favourable fundamentals.