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Vacancy and rental levels could be on a longer-than-anticipated road to recovery, especially in western markets.

Though new relationships are still on hold throughout much of the world, many kinds of investors are still finding ways to grow their real estate exposure.

The wall of capital will likely mean lower returns for property credit strategies. But that has not deterred institutional capital from piling in, as this record-breaking close will attest.

Investors committed around $5bn of capital to Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies IV after the end of Q1 2020.

As retail and office sectors trend toward volatility, the steady returns of sale-and-leaseback strategies are becoming attractive fixed-income substitutes.

Asia-Pacific real estate funds recorded the biggest year-on-year growth in terms of total capital raised in the first half of 2020.

The New York-based alternative asset manager, formerly known as Och-Ziff Capital Management, beat the target for its latest property vehicle by nearly $1bn.

The duo will target both the acquisition and origination of loans secured by real estate in the western US, Ireland and the UK.

Capital providers and their managers are seeking fresh pockets of value as fundraising in the sector dips.

Our senior editorial teams covering PE, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries discuss the latest in how private markets are responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Plus: ways firms are helping people out in the crisis.