The Weekly Take from CBRE

Look Around: Exploring today’s capital strategies

The Weekly Take from CBRE

Show Notes

Clarion’s Brent Jenkins and CBRE’s Zaahir Syed discuss how capital raising for real estate is rapidly evolving. They provide insights on fund development, non-traded REITs, emerging opportunities in private wealth markets and more.

Key takeaways on raising and deploying capital:

Sourcing real estate capital is diversifying, with growing emphasis on private wealth and new opportunities to tap into the defined-contribution (DC) market. Accessing retail capital and 401k plans through DC channels is potentially a major area of growth, requiring new product structures and daily liquidity solutions. Fund managers must strategically align vehicle structures with investor objectives and market conditions for both short- and long-term capital needs.

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