Lauren Mills
Lauren is private markets editor across IPE Real Assets and IPE.com. Prior to joining IPE in June 2022, Lauren worked as editor, real-time analysis at the Wall Street Journal and as a senior financial journalist at a variety of UK nationals including The Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.
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- lauren.mills@ipe.com
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Octopus has completed four deals in solar and wind energy to power 150,000 homes
AnalysisFund strategies: safe as (affordable) houses?
Affordable housing is gaining favour with institutional investors as a stable, long-term play
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Schroders buys the NH Collection Milan CityLife hotel on behalf of one of its pan-European hotel fund
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Real estate investment professionals Degner and Pittman launch Platte Canyon Capital
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Patel will lead the global infrastructure business, primarily consisting of Schroders Greencoat
InterviewsSchroders Capital's new head of infrastructure on the renewables revival
Minal Patel, recently promoted to global head of infrastructure, talks to Lauren Mills
NewsGreater Manchester Pension and L&G create affordable housing strategy
New regional vehicle is an extension to L&G’s affordable housing fund, launched in July 2024
NewsDWS acquires German onshore wind farm
Seller GP Joule will continue to manage the Ostbevern wind farm in North Rhine-Westphalia
NewsGreykite's UK rental homes venture buys £60m portfolio from Persimmon
Joint venture with Gatehouse IM acquires a second portfolio from Persimmon Homes
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APAC investors prefer value-add strategies in search of returns amid macroeconomic, geopolitical uncertainty
NewsOctopus Energy acquires agrivoltaic developer OX2 France
Acquisition is Octopus’s largest deal in France
NewsLong Harbour secures £300m from Korea’s NPS for UK single-family housing
Fund aims to deliver 5,000 new-build homes across the South and South East of England
NewsStoneweg enters Swiss residential sector with acquisition of majority stake in Lausanne-based Fundim
Fundim is a real estate developer and fund manager overseeing more than CHF400m (€425m) in assets across multiple regulated investment vehicles
NewsCopenhagen Infrastructure Partners poised to build £800m BESS projects in Scotland
The specialist manager is making the investment via its CI IV fund
NewsInvesco forward funds 99 UK homes for German institutional mandate
Second transaction made on behalf of pan-European PRS mandate
NewsPembroke advances global diversification strategy with first US multifamily deal
Since opening in October 2023, the nine-storey, 267-unit building is 96% occupied
AnalysisOutlook 2025: Housing will be a key asset class for investors
Investors will continue to target the global demand-supply imbalance in residential markets
