Below is a list of notable real estate investment firms.
Largest private real estate investment firms by capital raised
Each year
Private Equity Real Estate
Private equity real estate is a term used in investment finance to refer to a specific subset of the real estate investment asset class. Private equity real estate refers to one of the four quadrants of the real estate capital markets, which in ...
publishes ranking of the largest private real estate investment firms by how much capital they have raised for real estate investments in the last five years:
Notable private real estate investment firms
Americas
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AEW Capital Management
AEW Capital Management (AEW) is an American real estate investment firm headquartered in Boston. The firm is the real estate asset management platform of Natixis Investment Managers.
In 2022, the firm was ranked by PERE (under Private Equity I ...
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Angelo Gordon
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Apollo Global Management
Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private-equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, i ...
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Ares Management
Ares Management Corporation is an American global alternative investment manager operating in the credit, private equity and real estate markets. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional of ...
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Bain Capital
Bain Capital is an American private investment firm based in Boston. It specializes in private equity, venture capital, credit, public equity, impact investing, life sciences, and real estate. Bain Capital invests across a range of industry se ...
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Barings LLC
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Beacon Capital Partners
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BentallGreenOak
BentallGreenOak is a real estate investment firm based in Toronto and New York City. The firm is the real estate investment arm of Sun Life Financial. It is considered one of the largest real estate investment firms in North America.
In 2022, th ...
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Blackstone Inc.
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Brookfield Asset Management
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is a Canadian multinational company that is one of the world's largest alternative investment management companies, with over US$725 billion of assets under management in 2022. It focuses on direct contr ...
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CBRE Investment Management
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Centerbridge Partners
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Cerberus Capital Management
Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is an American private equity firm,Leaders Magazine"Providing Economic Opportunity: An Interview with The Honorable Dan Quayle, Chairman, Cerberus Global Investments, LLC". specializing in distressed investing. ...
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CIM Group
CIM Group invests in commercial property on behalf of large institutions such as pensions. As of December 31, 2020, the company owned $29.2 billion worth of commercial property.
History
The company was founded in 1994 by Shaul Kuba, Richard Ressl ...
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Clarion Partners
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Cohen & Steers
Cohen & Steers is an American investment management company. It focuses on investments in real estate securities via real estate investment trusts (REIT) and alternative income via preferred securities.
In August 2022, according to a report rel ...
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Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners, formerly The Enterprise Foundation, is a national nonprofit organized around three central goals: to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility. Founded in 1982 by develo ...
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Fortress Investment Group
Fortress Investment Group is an American investment management firm based in New York City. Fortress was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wes Edens, Rob Kauffman, and Randal Nardone. When Fortress launched on the NYSE in February 20 ...
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Greystar Real Estate Partners
Greystar Real Estate Partners is an international real estate developer and manager based in the United States. As of April 2019, Greystar had $32 billion in gross assets under management, and operated in nine countries in 2022.
Greystar was t ...
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Harbert Management Corporation
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HIG Realty Partners
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Hines
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JRK Property Holdings
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Kennedy Wilson
Kennedy Wilson is a global real estate investment company founded in 1977 and based in Beverly Hills, California, United States. In 1988, CEO and Chairman William J. McMorrow acquired the company. Kennedy Wilson focuses primarily on multifamily an ...
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KKR
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LaSalle Investment Management
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Lone Star Funds
Lone Star Funds, legal name of main entity Lone Star Global Acquisitions, Ltd. is an American private equity firm that invests in distressed assets in the U.S., Canada and internationally. The founder of Lone Star established its first fund in ...
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MCR Hotels
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Nuveen Real Estate
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Oak Street Capital
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Oaktree Capital Management
Oaktree Capital Management is an American global asset management firm specializing in alternative investment strategies. As of March 31, 2022, the company managed $164 billion for its clientele.
The firm was co-founded in 1995 by a group that ...
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PineBridge Benson Elliot
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Pretium Partners
Pretium Partners, LLC (Pretium) is an American alternative investment firm headquartered in New York City. The firm focuses on investments in residential real estate as well as Corporate and Structured Credit.
In 2022, the firm was ranked by ...
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Rockpoint Group
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Sculptor Capital Management
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Southwest Value Partners
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Starwood Capital Group
Starwood Capital Group is an investment firm headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida. It is managed by Barry Sternlicht. It was co-founded by Sternlicht and Robert Faith in 1991. In 1993, Faith left Starwood to found Greystar Real Estate Partner ...
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StepStone Group
StepStone Group LP (StepStone) is a global private markets firm providing customized investment, portfolio monitoring and advice to investors. StepStone covers primary fund investments, secondary fund investments and co-investments across priva ...
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Stockbridge Capital Group
Stockbridge Capital Group is a private-equity real estate investment company based in San Francisco, led by Terry Fancher and Sol Raso. In 2020 the company had over $16 billion in assets under management.
The company owns the Hollywood Park Casi ...
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The Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and pri ...
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Tishman Speyer
Tishman Speyer Properties is an American company that invests in real estate.
History
The firm was founded in 1978 by Robert Tishman and Jerry Speyer.
In March 1988, the company announced its first project in Europe, the construction of a 70 ...
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TPG
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Tricon Residential
Tricon Residential (formerly Tricon Capital) is a Canadian real estate company. The company invests in single-family rental and multi-family rental homes, and owns about 31,000 properties across the United States and Canada. As of February 2021 ...
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Walton Street Capital
Walton Street Capital is a private equity real estate investment firm founded in 1994 and headquartered in Chicago, with a satellite office in Mexico City. Through its affiliates, Walton Street Capital has raised over $14 billion of equity and loa ...
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Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966. The firm currently has over ...
Asia
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BPEA EQT
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CapitaLand
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Charter Hall
Charter Hall is an Australian property development and funds management company. In 2022, IREI ranked Charter Hall as the largest real estate investment manager in Australasia based on assets under management.
History
Charter Hall was founded i ...
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ESR Group
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Gaw Capital
Gaw Capital () is a real estate private equity fund management firm headquartered in Hong Kong.
In 2022, the firm was ranked by PERE (under Private Equity International) as the 11th largest Private Equity Real Estate firm based on total fundra ...
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GLP
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Hony Capital
Hony Capital is a Chinese private equity firm, owned by Legend Holdings. Legend Holdings provided Hony, a pioneer in China's private equity industry, with its start-up capital. Hony has about US$10 billion under management. Hony also invests in o ...
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IGIS Asset Management
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Keppel Capital
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Lendlease
Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate company that creates and invests in communities, workplaces, retail, and infrastructure projects, headquartered in Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia.
History Founding
The company was estab ...
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PAG
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Phoenix Property Investors
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Queensland Investment Corporation
QIC (Queensland Investment Corporation) is a Government owned investment company owned by the Queensland Government. It was founded on 1 July 1991 pursuant to the ''Queensland Investment Corporation Act 1991'' to serve the long-term investmen ...
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Sino-Ocean Capital
EMEA
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Ardian
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BC Partners
BC Partners is a British international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America. Its global headquarters are in London. The firm invests across all ...
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BMO Real Estate Partners
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Bouwfonds
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CapMan
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EQT Exeter
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Europa Capital
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Kildare Partners
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MARK Capital Management
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Partners Group
Partners Group Holding AG is a Swiss-based global private equity firm with US$127 billion in assets under management in private equity, private infrastructure, private real estate and private debt.
The firm manages a broad range of funds, struct ...
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Patrizia SE
Notable real estate investment trusts
Americas
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Aimco
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Alexander's
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities
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American Campus Communities
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American Homes 4 Rent
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American Tower
American Tower Corporation (also referred to as American Tower or ATC) is an American real estate investment trust and an owner and operator of wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure in several countries worldwide and is headquart ...
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Americold
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Annaly Capital Management
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Arlington Asset Investment
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AvalonBay Communities
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Boston Properties
Boston Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in premier workplaces in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. As of June 30, 2022, the company owned or had interest ...
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Brandywine Realty Trust
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Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust
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Brookfield Property Partners
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Brixmor Property Group
Brixmor Property Group is a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust that primarily invests in shopping malls. They own and operate over 400 open-air shopping centers totaling over 73 million square feet of retail space. Brixmor Property Gr ...
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Camden Property Trust
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CAPREIT
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CBL Properties
CBL Properties (previously CBL & Associates, Inc., then CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.) is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers, primarily in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. The company is ...
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Cedar Realty Trust
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Chartwell Retirement Residences
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Choice Properties REIT
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Cominar REIT
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CoreCivic
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Corporate Office Properties Trust
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Cousins Properties
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Crombie REIT
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Crown Castle
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CubeSmart
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Digital Realty
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests in carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation and peering services. As of December 31, 2019, the company owned interests in 225 operating data center facilities ...
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Dream Industrial REIT
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Dream Office REIT
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EPR Properties
EPR Properties, formerly Entertainment Properties Trust, is a real estate investment trust based in Kansas City, Missouri, that invests in amusement parks, movie theaters, ski resorts, and other entertainment properties. It owns 353 properties a ...
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Equinix
Equinix, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that specializes in Internet connection and data centers. The company is a leader in global colocation data center market share, with 240 data centers ...
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Equity Residential
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Essex Property Trust
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Extended Stay America
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Extra Space Storage
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Federal Realty Investment Trust
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First Capital REIT
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Gaming and Leisure Properties
Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in casino properties, based in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. It was formed in November 2013 as a corporate spin-off from Penn National Gaming. The company owns ...
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GEO Group
The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is a publicly traded C corporation that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in North America, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, the company' ...
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Granite Real Estate
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H&R REIT
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Healthpeak Properties
Healthpeak Properties, Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in real estate related to the healthcare industry including senior housing, life science, and medical offices. It is organized 2007 in Maryland and headquart ...
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Hersha Hospitality Trust
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Host Hotels & Resorts
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in hotels. As of February 19, 2021, the company owned 80 upscale hotels containing approximately 46,500 rooms in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.
History
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Hudson Pacific Properties
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InnSuites Hospitality
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InterRent REIT
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InvenTrust Properties
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Invitation Homes
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Iron Mountain
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JBG Smith
JBG SMITH Properties is a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Bethesda, Maryland.
As of December 31, 2020, the company owned 62 properties and has 2 additional properties under construction, all of which are in the Washington me ...
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Kimco Realty
Kimco Realty® (NYSE:KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) headquartered in Jericho, N.Y. that is North America’s largest publicly traded owner and operator of open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers, including mixed-use assets. The ...
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Lamar Advertising Company
Lamar Advertising is an outdoor advertising company which operates billboards, logo signs, and transit displays in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 1902 by Charles W. Lamar and J.M. Coe, and is headquartered in Baton Roug ...
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Life Storage
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Macerich
Macerich ( ) is a real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. It is the third-largest owner and operator of shopping centers in the United States. As of December 31, 2020, the company owned interests in 52 properties comprisi ...
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Medical Properties Trust
Medical Properties Trust, Inc., based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a real estate investment trust that invests in healthcare facilities subject to NNN leases. The company owns 438 properties in the United States, Australia, Colombia, Germany, Ital ...
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MGM Growth Properties
MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP) was a real estate investment trust based in Summerlin South, Nevada, that invested in large-scale casino properties. The company had whole or majority ownership of 15 properties, all of which were operated by MGM ...
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Mid-America Apartment Communities
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Minto Apartment REIT
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Morguard REIT
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National Retail Properties
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Outfront Media
Outfront Media, Inc. is one of the largest outdoor media companies. It operates in markets including the United States and Canada. The Americas division is led by chief executive officer Jeremy Male. Outfront Media operates both billboards and tr ...
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Park Hotels & Resorts
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Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers mostly in the Mid-Atlantic states.
History
The company was founded by Sylvan M. Cohen in 1960 as one of the first equit ...
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PotlatchDeltic
PotlatchDeltic Corporation (originally Potlatch Corp) is an American diversified forest products company based in Spokane, Washington.
It manufactures and sells lumber, panels and particleboard and receives revenue from other assets such as mine ...
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Prologis
Prologis, Inc. is a real estate investment trust headquartered in San Francisco, California that invests in logistics facilities. The company was formed through the merger of AMB Property Corporation and Prologis in June 2011, which made Prologis ...
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PS Business Parks
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Public Storage
Public Storage is an American international self storage company headquartered in Glendale, California, that is run as a real estate investment trust (REIT). It is the largest brand of self-storage services in the US. In 2008, it was the larges ...
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Quality Technology Services
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (popularly known as Quality Technology Services, QTS or QTS Data Centers) is a provider of carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation services within North America and Northern Amsterdam and is based in Overland Pa ...
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Rayonier
Rayonier Inc, headquartered in Wildlight, Florida, is a timberland real estate investment trust ("REIT") with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. Its core business s ...
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Realty Income
Realty Income Corporation is a real estate investment trust that invests in free-standing, single-tenant commercial properties in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom that are subject to NNN Leases. The company is organized in Marylan ...
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Regency Centers
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RioCan REIT
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RPT Realty
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SBA Communications
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Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping malls, outlet centers, and community/ lifestyle centers. It is the largest owner of shopping malls in the United States and is headquartered in India ...
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SITE Centers
SITE Centers Corp. (formerly DDR Corp. and Developers Diversified Realty, Inc.) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. Founded in 1965 by Bert Wolstein, the company is headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio ...
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SL Green Realty
SL Green Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust that primarily invests in office buildings and shopping centers in New York City. As of December 31, 2019, the company owned 43 properties comprising 14,438,964 square feet.
Notable proper ...
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Store Capital
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Sun Communities
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Tanger Factory Outlet Centers
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UDR
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UMH Properties
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Urstadt Biddle Properties
Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc. was a real estate investment trust based in Greenwich, Connecticut that primarily invested in shopping centers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. As of October 31, 2021, the company owned interests in 79 prop ...
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Ventas
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Veris Residential
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Vici Properties
Vici Properties Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in casino properties, based in New York City. It was formed in 2017 as a spin-off from Caesars Entertainment Corporation as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. It ow ...
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Vornado Realty Trust
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W. P. Carey
W. P. Carey Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests in properties leased to single tenants via NNN leases. The company is organized in Maryland, with its primary office in New York City.
As of December 31, 2019, the company owned 1 ...
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Washington Prime Group
Washington Prime Group Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. The company is organized in Indiana with its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. From January 2015 to September 2016, the company had the name WP ...
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Welltower
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Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser () is an American timberland company which owns nearly of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. The company also manufactures wood products. It operates as a real e ...
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Xenia Hotels & Resorts
Asia
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Champion REIT
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Dexus
Dexus is an Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) managing an Australian property portfolio valued at $44.3 billion.
Dexus invests in Australia and directly owns $18.4 billion of office, industrial and healthcare properties. The dir ...
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Goodman Group
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GPT Group
The GPT Group is a Real Estate Investment Trust (also known as an Australian Stock Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange Ltd or ASX, is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the Australian Sec ...
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Hui Xian REIT
Hui Xian REIT () is a real estate investment trust demerged from Cheung Kong Holdings. It is the first product listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange denominated in yuan. When it launched its IPO in 2011, its main asset is , a business park
A ...
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Link REIT
Link Real Estate Investment Trust (, or ; previously known as The Link Real Estate Investment Trust (, or ), managed by Link Asset Management Limited, is the first real estate investment trust in Hong Kong and currently the largest in Asia in ...
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Stockland
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Vicinity Centres
Vicinity Centres , previously known as Federation Centres and Centro Properties Group, is an Australian Real Estate Investment Trust specialising in ownership and management of Australian shopping centres. As at December 2021, it had stakes i ...
EMEA
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Apache Capital Partners
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Big Yellow Group
The Big Yellow Group is a Self storage, self-storage company based in Bagshot, England. It is the largest self-storage company in the United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index and listed on the London Stock Exchange. Big Yellow ...
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British Land
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Briston
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Cofinimmo
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Derwent London
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Great Portland Estates
Great Portland Estates plc (branded as GPE) is a British property development and investment company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The firm switched to Real Estate Investment Trust status w ...
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Hammerson
Hammerson plc is a major British property development and investment company. The firm switched to real estate investment trust (REIT) status when they were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007. It is listed on the London Stock Excha ...
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Hansteen Holdings
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Intu
Intu Properties plc was a British real estate investment trust (REIT), largely focused on shopping centre management and development. Originally named Liberty International plc, it changed its name in May 2010 to Capital Shopping Centres Group ...
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Irish Residential Properties REIT
Irish Residential Properties REIT Plc or IRES is a multi-unit residential letting company and REIT focused on the Dublin property market and that of other major Irish urban centres. It is listed on Euronext Dublin and is a constituent member of t ...
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Landsec
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LondonMetric Property
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NewRiver
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Primary Health Properties
Primary Health Properties plc is a British-based real estate investment trust, specialising in the rental of flexible and modern primary healthcare facilities within the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company is listed on the London Stock Exch ...
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Safestore
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Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about above sea level on a ...
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Soho Estates
Soho Estates is a British property company created by entrepreneur and pornographer Paul Raymond. The holdings of Soho Estates are mainly based in Soho, a district in the West End of London.
Through Soho Estates Holdings Limited and parent com ...
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Segro
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Unite Students
The Unite Group (trading as Unite Students) provides purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) across the United Kingdom.
The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
History
The Unite Group was ...
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Workspace Group
Workspace Group plc is a real estate investment trust based in London, England. Founded in 1987 by the privatisation of property assets of the former Greater London Council, the company lets office, industrial and workshop space to small and me ...
See also
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List of asset management firms
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List of private-equity firms
Below is a list of notable private-equity firms.
Largest private-equity firms by PE capital raised
Each year Private Equity International publishes the PEI 300, a ranking of the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they have raised for ...
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Private equity real estate
Private equity real estate is a term used in investment finance to refer to a specific subset of the real estate investment asset class. Private equity real estate refers to one of the four quadrants of the real estate capital markets, which in ...
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Real estate investment trust
A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a company that owns, and in most cases operates, income-producing real estate. REITs own many types of commercial real estate, including office and apartment buildings, warehouses, hospitals, shopping cente ...
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