HESTA Expands Build-to-rent (BTR) Model Asset Owners, Real Estate Barring the overriding criteria of returns, HESTA looks to housing for what it sees as secondary benefits for members and the wider community. Read More
Bouwinvest Bets on Living Sector Asset Owners, Real Estate Over the next 12 to 24 months, Bouwinvest, the Amsterdam-based real estate investment manager acting on behalf of Dutch pension funds, expects to deploy up to a further A$1 billion in Asia-Pacific. Bouwinvest’s Asia-Pacific portfolio, which is managed on behalf of Dutch pension fund bpfBOUW, is valued at around A$2.5 billion, but it has the […] Read More
NZ Super Invests in Logistics and Data Centres Asset Owners, Real Estate The past three years have seen New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund invest in logistics and data centres in Asia-Pacific – and in grocery retail and residential in Europe and the United States Read More
Crunch Time for Commercial Property Borrowers Real Estate With many commercial real estate loans needing to be refinanced over the next two years, property owners are faced with a widening funding gap, Florence Chong writes Read More
Traps for the Unwary in Green Infrastructure Infrastructure Although acknowledging need for low carbon solutions and the energy transition, Frontier Advisors’ Manish Rastogi cautions investors to be wary of the sustainability of business models of some new-generation infrastructure assets because they have yet to be fully proven Read More
Bouwinvest to Overweight Living and Logistics Sectors Asset Owners, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate Dutch investor Bouwinvest has operated from Australia since the late 2010s. Florence Chong speaks with Sydney-based Robert Koot about the broader APAC strategy Read More
Jury Still Out On Office Valuations Real Estate The jury is still out on whether office real estate prices will stablise, Florence Chong writes Read More
Repurposing Buildings: The ESG Endgame ESG, Real Estate As the world inches towards net zero, the pressure on building owners and their asset managers to turn their brown buildings green increases with each passing year Read More
Going from Brown to Green with CEFC ESG, Private & Alternative Markets, Real Estate Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has been investing in commercial buildings since 2016 and the strategy has now matured into a fully-fledged repositioning of buildings Read More
