Ares Real Estate Platform

Once their recently announced acquisitions close, Ares will go from 10 to 3rd ranked in the Real Estate space. Anyone know what their strategy is and at what point do people start considering them Elite like Blackstone or Brookfield on the RE side?

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Interviewed with them before, they focus on asset level deals (no taking reits private yet), and a lot of it being the LP on developments and partnering with local OP. The rest is just mark to market strategy.

 

Thanks a lot. One last question -- what is generally the DAW? Assuming you are a VP1, based off your tag?

 

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