Commercial real estate: Institutions get a taste for real estate

Institutions and private equity have stepped into the gap left by banks, not least because of property’s attractive and duration-matching returns.


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Norway’s $700 billion-plus sovereign wealth fund has recently been eclipsed in terms of total assets by its counterpart in China, but when you’re as large as the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, even a small shift in asset allocation makes a big difference. Witness its role in the recent €1.2 billion Deutsche Annington IPO, where it swallowed 12 million shares, 35% of the offering, effectively guaranteeing the success of the transaction. Norway’s colossal fund is one of a number of the world’s largest institutional investors to have developed a taste for real estate.

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