All Real Assets articles in March/April 2025 (Magazine)
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Interviews
Louis-Simon Ferland: Sticking with sheds
The founder and CEO of Boreal IM reveals how logistics investors can still find opportunities in an economically depressed, over-regulated European market.
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Analysis
Greystar prepares for the next phase of global student housing expansion
With its global infrastructure now in place, the US firm is ready for the next phase of expansion. Florence Chong speaks to CIO Wes Fuller and Asia-Pacific director Adam Pillay
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Special Reports
India’s rapidly growing population is in dire need of investment in senior living
The country faces 346m seniors by 2050
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Interviews
GREEN and LOTUF: Real estate decarbonisation initiatives join forces
Two organisations merge to make headway with a standardised set of metrics. Pirkko Juntunen reports
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Analysis
DeepSeek, what’s the outlook for data centres?
Will the data-centre boom continue after DeepSeek? Christopher Walker invokes Jevons paradox
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Analysis
Global student housing: more students, fewer beds
A glaring mismatch between enrolments and available accommodation is driving demand for PBSA globally. Florence Chong reports
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Analysis
Banking on beds: European real estate debt funds pivot to housing
Europe’s alternative lenders are being lured by the attractive supply-demand dynamics of the living sector. Virna Asara investigates
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Special Reports
Investors wake up to Australian land-lease opportunity
The market for land-lease communities is booming off the back of demographic trends
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Special Reports
Upsizing the Australian retirement market
A record amount of retirement villages are up for sale in Australia
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Analysis
Scape opens the door for investors to Australian student housing
The creation of an evergreen fund for Scape Australia’s prize portfolio will keep existing investors on board and attract new ones
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Opinion Pieces
Guest viewpoint: Will real estate survive as an asset class?
Increases in operational risk and allocation pressures from infrastructure and private equity are putting property in a tight spot, write Andrea Orlandi and Valentina Shegoyan
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Analysis
Geopolitics to top the agenda at MIPIM investor discussions
Richard Lowe speaks to major institutional investors ahead of the French summit
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Special Reports
Q&A: BlackRock readies real estate strategy for ageing world
The world’s largest asset manager is positioning its strategy to capitalise on demographic shifts
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Special Reports
Japan highlights effects of ageing on real assets
One in eight homes is empty, as Japan provides a window into the future
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Special Reports
Does an ageing Europe create opportunities for real assets investors?
Europe is in the midst of a major demographic shift. Christopher Walker reports
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Special Reports
Real estate markets will need to start catering for an ageing Africa
Even Africa’s young population is getting older. Razak Musah Baba explores the implications for real assets
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Analysis
Fund strategies: safe as (affordable) houses?
Affordable housing is gaining favour with institutional investors as a stable, long-term play
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Analysis
Nordic affordable housing: homing in on urbanisation
Rent regulation may be an obstacle in the Nordics, but urbanisation and sustainability offer attractive opportunities for innovative investors
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Analysis
Could niche hospitality markets help European housing affordability?
Hospitality and the living sector have long competed for space, but that might begin to change