Richard Lowe
Richard Lowe is editor of IPE Real Assets, overseeing all editorial content and direction of the publication. He took on the role in 2011 and has since then expanded the focus of the magazine from real estate markets to include other real assets such as infrastructure, agriculture and forestry.
Richard has contributed to IPE Real Assets since 2007, as a features writer, deputy editor and freelance journalist. As a freelancer, he has written for a number of real estate and pension titles.
He also worked previously as a features writer and features editor of Professional Pensions. His career in journalism started in 2001 as a features writer at the Bristol Evening Post newspaper.
Outside of work, Richard enjoys music and being a dad to two young sons.
Contact info
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 3465 9323
- Email:
- richard.lowe@ipe.com
- Opinion Pieces
IPE Real Assets May/June 2024: Real estate comeback?
Richard Lowe considers the competition between real estate and infrastructure asset classes, as this year’s real estate investor survey hints at a resurgence in investment
- Special Reports
Top 150 Real Estate Investors 2024: Survey
There are signs that investors plan to increase investment activity after a slow 2023. Richard Lowe reports
- Special Reports
APG is ‘back’ with a €5bn affordable housing mandate
Robert-Jan Foortse tells Richard Lowe how the pension fund investor plans to unlock the housing crisis in the Netherlands
- News
Singapore’s Mapletree buys student housing platform for £1bn
Portfolio of 8,192 beds across 19 cities and operating platform sold by Cuscaden Peak Investments
- News
Primevest, MEAG and ÄVWL expand German fibre network joint venture
Open German Fiber acquires fibre-optic network in Bad Nauheim from municipal utility
- News
Recently completed New York office tower refinanced for more than $900m
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank provides five-year loan for 47-storey building at 425 Park Avenue
- News
NorthBridge surpasses target for latest value-add logistics fund
Boston-based fund manager raises close to $950m for NB Partners Fund IV
- News
StoneVest and Madison buy Berlin light industrial property as part of €150m JV
Asset acquired through a 15-year sale-and-leaseback with KWC Aquarotter
- News
Clarion acquires asset in Venlo as it deploys €222m into Dutch logistics
Patrizia sells grade-A logistics property for €47.7m
- News
ULI and LaSalle devise climate-risk action framework for real estate
Second in series of reports is designed to help real estate industry act on disclosure data
- News
Barings core fund sells Gothenburg logistics asset after two years
Clothing retailer buys 33,200sqm asset after Barings purchased it from NCC in March 2022
- News
Blue Owl buys Prima and hires GIC’s Hom to launch real estate debt platform
Blue Owl Capital to buy Prima Capital Advisors for $170m
- News
Real estate industry welcomes UK Transition Plan Taskforce sector guidance
Finalised guidance includes references to Better Buildings Partnership and industry recommendations
- News
Hy24 leads €200m investment to expand Paris hydrogen taxi firm across Europe
Hydrogen infrastructure fund becomes majority shareholder in HysetCo
- News
IFM calls on investors to make infrastructure a ‘foundational asset class’
Fund manager argues for a standalone allocation, replicating – and potentially replacing – real estate
- Analysis
MIPIM 2024: Infrastructure gate-crashes real estate party
Major institutional investors converge on Cannes to discuss challenges facing asset class
- News
UK to legislate for reserved investor funds in boost for real estate managers
RIFs to be included in Spring 2024 Finance Bill and could help managers avoid going offshore
- Opinion Pieces
IPE Real Assets March/April 2024: University of life (sciences)
Student housing and life sciences are separate real estate sectors but they form part of the same ecosystem of innovation
- Analysis
M&A: The race is on to get bigger in infrastructure fund management
Does the BlackRock-GIP merger mark the start of an infrastructure arms race? Christopher Walker and Richard Lowe report
- News
Stafford Capital raises $635m for global timberland secondaries fund
Stafford International Timberland X is targeting $1bn by Q3, according to investor update report