All Value Added articles
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White papersFinding resilience in mid-market industrial & logistics real estate
Various major geopolitical and macroeconomic shocks over the last decade have had significant knock-on effects for the European real estate market. Theo Soeters, Head of Fund Management at Edmond de Rothschild REIM…
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White papersWhere Conviction Meets Selection: Finding Value in a Market of Diverging Real Estate Outcomes
A perspective on why investment selection, not broad sector exposure, may define the next phase of alternative real estate investing.
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White papersUBS Asset Management: Exploring value creation across real estate markets and strategies
In this article, we look at ways investors might generate higher returns from real estate and at the current opportunities for doing so. We also review the factors we think investors must consider when managing the risk of these investments.
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Asset Manager NewsEdmond de Rothschild REIM launches new value-add strategy for European light industrial & logistics and appoints Niek van Genugten as Fund Manager
The strategy will target light industrial assets, which offer a yield premium over big-box logistics while benefiting from structurally constrained supply and greater reversion potential. The core principle is to generate alpha through active asset management delivered by local teams across strong European markets.
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Asset Manager NewsGLP Capital Partners Ranked No. 2 in PERE’s 2026 APAC Fund Manager Guide
Singapore, 10 September 2026 – GLP Capital Partners, GLP’s asset management arm, has ranked No. 2 in PERE’s 2026 APAC Fund Manager Guide. The firm raised approximately US$8.9 billion for its APAC-focused real estate strategies during the qualifying period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025.
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Asset Manager NewsDeA Capital Real Estate: new €280 million financing agreement for the fund with Fort Partners which will bring Four Seasons Hotel to Rome
Rome, Milan, 20 July 2026. DeA Capital Real Estate announces the completion of the refinancing transaction for Millennium Luxury Fund, the real estate Alternative Investment Fund subscribed by Fort Partners which is its main investor.
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White papersValue-add real estate and the speed of forgetting
The built environment is having to adapt more quickly than it once did. Technology, tighter regulation and higher capital costs have shortened the lifespan of established property formats. Noura Tan, together with Robert Balick and Frédéric Laurent, Managing Partners at BauMont Real Estate Capital, M&G’s European value-add real estate business, examine how value-add investing is being redefined as cycles shorten and why building portfolios around more than one market story is becoming increasingly important.
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Asset Manager NewsBarings Targets Europe Deals With €2BN of Dry Powder
Barings is preparing for Europe’s next real estate cycle with c.€2bn of equity capital to deploy, focusing on residential and logistics where fundamentals remain strong. As values reprice and supply stays constrained, the firm sees growing opportunity for disciplined, selective deployment across Europe.
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White papers2026 Europe - Specialty Residential, Sector Update
Residential performance in 2025 remained robust in 2026. The sector continues to be characterised by strong operational performance, with occupancy remaining high and positive rental growth across key target markets.
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WebinarWebinar replay: Europe’s value-add moment
European real estate has repriced, and for disciplined investors, that kind of reset has historically been where the best opportunities are found. In just 15 minutes, three of Nuveen’s real assets leaders make the case for why now may be the right moment to lean in, and what a value-add approach looks like in practice across Europe’s evolving market. Watch the replay to hear their thinking and what it could mean for your portfolio.
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Asset Manager NewsHeitman Raises $2.6 billion for Value-Add Investment Series
Heitman LLC (“Heitman”), a global real estate investment management firm, today announced the final close of Heitman Value Partners Fund VI (“HVP VI” or “the fund”).
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White papersReturning to the foundations of infrastructure investing
In recent decades, infrastructure investing has emerged as a preferred strategy for investors seeking long-term, stable returns. The growing recognition of the importance of infrastructure in the modern economy, combined with its intrinsically strong characteristics, has propelled infrastructure investments to the forefront of the private equity investment landscape. However, this popularity has, in some ways, diluted the original intent of infrastructure investing.
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White papersLiberation or Aberration: What’s Shaping the Value-Add Opportunity in European Real Estate?
Uncertainties remain on the horizon—but this is extending an already attractive value-add opportunity to invest at the start of a new property cycle.
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Asset Manager NewsHeitman Acquires Majority Stake in Swedish Self-Storage Operator
Heitman LLC (“Heitman”), a global real estate investment management firm, today announced the acquisition of a majority stake in the third largest self-storage operator in Sweden – Servistore.
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White papersThe smart value-add investor – 2024 edition
When the market turned decidedly negative in early 2022, the strong value-add investment opportunity in the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC) came back to mind for many and inspired a number of real estate players to repeat that success. Substantial amounts of capital have since been raised, but very little of it has been invested to date.
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Asset Manager NewsPATRIZIA closes GLI urban logistics investment platform as new sidecar to TransEuropean VII with circa EUR 1 billion firepower to invest
PATRIZIA AG announces the final close of its GLI platform, a London urban logistics sidecar investment to its flagship discretionary value add fund, TransEuropean Property VII LP.
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White papersEuropean equity value has further to go in this cycle
Since the lows recorded in March 2020, we have seen three different phases of the value recovery. The first was driven by cheap quality cyclicals. This was followed by the outperformance of the deep value Covid-19 stocks from early November amid developments of effective Covid-19 vaccines.
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People NewsOla Hixon joins PGIM Real Estate’s U.S. value-add portfolio team
Ola Hixon has joined PGIM Real Estate as an executive director and assistant portfolio manager for its U.S. value-add team. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment and financing business of PGIM, the $1.4 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
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Asset Manager NewsPGIM Real Estate on track to reach US$1B for Asia Pacific Value-Add Fund IV
The fourth in PGIM Real Estate’s series of Asia Pacific value-add funds, AVP IV, has raised US$970 million, and is in advanced discussions for additional commitments that would take the capital raise to over US$1 billion.
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Asset Manager NewsGLP Establishes $675 Million China Value-Add Real Estate Fund
Fund will invest in modern logistics assets in GLP Park Lingang in Shanghai, the biggest and most advanced port-based logistics park in China
