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Last updated: July 1, 2026, 2:30 PM ET

Real Estate Capital Markets Navigate Liquidity and Growth

The private real estate sector is increasingly leveraging secondaries and recapitalizations to manage liquidity challenges and extend asset hold periods private real estate rides. This shift transforms secondaries from a niche tool into a permanent capital flow channel rising tide, enabling managers to retain prized assets and reposition platforms for future growth sophisticated capital formation. A growing number of institutional investors are participating in real estate secondaries, seeking exposure to in-demand asset classes amidst rising confidence in the market secondaries dealflow.

In parallel, recapitalizations are emerging as a critical strategy to bridge Europe’s funding gap, combining capital discipline with operational expertise to foster platform institutionalization and expansion more than just. This approach allows investors to unlock liquidity and extend hold periods in a challenging market environment where exits remain elusive rides recap wave.

Retail and Residential Sectors Attract Capital

Everyday essential retail formats, including retail parks and convenience stores, are experiencing a resurgence as capital flows back into the sector everyday essential retail. Specialty open-air retail centers are also gaining momentum, presenting notable investment opportunities within the current retail landscape open-air retail gaining.

The residential property sector is also seeing strategic expansion, with Matter Real Estate appointing a former Ares executive to spearhead its European growth appoints ex-Ares exec. Meanwhile, Greystar’s top capital raiser has joined Hawkeye Partners, signaling an expansion from seeding emerging managers to launching its own real estate funds.

Infrastructure Funds Target Energy Transition and AI

The infrastructure sector is witnessing significant fundraising activity, particularly in the energy transition space. Reinova is eyeing a $500 million first close for its debut energy transition infrastructure fund, having secured nearly two-thirds of its target in approximately ten months. Concurrently, CIP is eyeing €16 billion for its latest renewables flagship fund, following the €12 billion close of Copenhagen Infrastructure V in March 2025.

In a broader context, the largest infrastructure General Partners are outlining visions for a substantial $7 trillion capital expenditure supercycle driven by artificial intelligence Infra’s largest GPs. This comes as infrastructure fundraising demonstrates a significant rebound, with a notable $1.2 trillion in commitments, though questions remain about the distribution of these gains Infra’s $1.2trn fundraising.

Altérra has joined I Squared’s $600 million commitment for a Peruvian power business, marking Altérra's first direct investment in Latin America and its second co-investment with I Squared.

Healthcare Private Equity Sees Continued Momentum

The healthcare sector continues to attract private equity interest, with a particular focus on physician practice management Physician Practice Management. Experts trace the ongoing momentum behind healthcare privatization, suggesting sustained interest in the sector.

Mid-Market Infrastructure Outperforms

Despite the dominance of large-cap funds, the mid-market infrastructure sector is consistently outperforming across various metrics Mid-market outperforms. Investors are gaining benefits from this segment, prompting analysis into what drives its superior performance and potential barriers to broader adoption.

Public REITs and Manager Rebalancing

Public REITs are navigating a complex balancing act, seeking to serve disparate investor groups while new entrants close significant private real estate funds Public REITs’ balancing act. In terms of portfolio adjustments, Mississippi PERS sees an early recovery from core managers' rebalancing efforts, with firms diverging on how to recalibrate their office exposures despite leaning more heavily into niche strategies.