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Rank Firm Five-year fundraising total ($m) Headquarters
1 Blackstone 48,702 New York
2 Brookfield Asset Management 29,924 Toronto
3 Starwood Capital Group 21,777 Miami
4 ESR 16,603 Hong Kong
5 GLP 15,510 Singapore
6 The Carlyle Group 14,857 Washington DC
7 BentallGreenOak 14,760 New York
8 AEW 13,496 Boston
9 Cerberus Capital Management 13,076 New York
10 Ares Management 12,971 Los Angeles
11 Gaw Capital Partners 12,417 Hong Kong
12 Rockpoint Group 11,289 Boston
13 Bridge Investment Group 11,240 Salt Lake City
14 Tishman Speyer 11,229 New York
15 Pretium Partners 11,050 New York
16 KKR 10,933 New York
17 Angelo Gordon 10,042 New York
18 EQT Exeter 9,724 Stockholm
19 Apollo Global Management 9,713 New York
20 Bain Capital 9,673 Boston
21 CBRE 9,424 Los Angeles
22 Oak Street, A Division of Blue Owl 8,823 Chicago
23 LaSalle Investment Management 8,565 Chicago
24 TPG 8,200 San Francisco
25 PAG 7,973 Hong Kong
26 Harrison Street Real Estate Capital 7,888 Chicago
27 Sino-Ocean Capital 7,472 Beijing
28 Hines 7,354 Houston
29 Rockwood Capital 6,990 New York
30 AXA IM Alts 6,920 Paris
31 Greystar Real Estate Partners 6,776 Charleston
32 Crow Holdings Capital 6,498 Dallas
33 Aermont Capital 6,370 Luxembourg
34 Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) 5,860 Newport Beach
35 Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing 5,832 New York
36 Goldman Sachs Asset Management Real Estate 5,711 New York
37 Partners Group 5,635 Baar-Zug
38 Lone Star Funds 5,551 Dallas
39 Harbor Group International 5,453 Norfolk
40 CIM Group 5,446 Los Angeles
41 Invesco Real Estate 5,379 New York
42 Henderson Park Capital Partners 5,359 London
43 IPI Partners 5,300 Chicago
44 Rialto Capital Management 5,052 Miami
45 Fortress Investment Group 5,013 New York
46 Almanac Realty Investors 4,948 New York
47 StepStone Group 4,880 New York
48 Oaktree Capital Management 4,771 Los Angeles
49 PGIM Real Estate 4,759 Madison
50 Heitman 4,756 Chicago
51 BlackRock 4,619 New York
52 Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors 4,490 Los Angeles
53 Tricon Residential 4,462 Toronto
54 DivcoWest 4,443 San Francisco
55 Artemis Real Estate Partners 4,172 Chevy Chase
56 Keppel Capital 4,000 Singapore
57 DRA Advisors 3,906 New York
58 Westbrook Partners 3,897 New York
59 Nuveen Real Estate 3,714 London
60 Schroders Capital 3,454 London
61 Centerbridge Partners 3,307 New York
62 Sculptor Capital Management 3,215 New York
63 HIG Realty Partners 3,167 Miami
64 Tristan Capital Partners 3,154 London
65 PCCP 3,116 Los Angeles
66 NREP 3,072 Copenhagen
67 Azora 2,980 Madrid
68 Lionstone Investments 2,965 Houston
69 FPA Multifamily 2,955 San Francisco
70 GTIS Partners 2,812 New York
71 Asana Partners 2,800 Charlotte
72 Warburg Pincus 2,800 New York
73 DLE Group 2,761 Berlin
74 Harbert Management Corporation 2,689 Birmingham
75 Square Mile Capital 2,650 New York
76 Patrizia 2,611 Augsburg
77 Waterton 2,597 Chicago
78 M7 Real Estate 2,510 London
79 Prologis 2,475 San Francisco
80 Ardian 2,429 Paris
81 Walton Street Capital 2,429 Chicago
82 Wheelock Street Capital 2,329 Greenwich
83 GLP Capital Partners 2,300 Santa Monica
84 Kennedy Wilson 2,166 Beverly Hills
85 Baring Private Equity Asia 2,129 Hong Kong
86 DNE 2,126 Shanghai
87 Kildare Partners 2,101 Hamilton
88 Related Companies 2,099 New York
89 TA Realty 2,057 Boston
90 COIMA 2,038 Milan
91 IGIS Asset Management 2,013 Seoul
92 Canyon Partners 2,000 Los Angeles
93 Cabot Properties 1,950 Boston
94 Berkshire Residential Investments 1,917 Boston
95 Enterprise Community Partners 1,899 Columbia
96 Capman 1,890 Helsinki
97 Signal Capital Partners 1,875 London
98 Beacon Capital Partners 1,868 Boston
99 FCP 1,864 Chevy Chase
100 RoundShield Partners 1,860 St Helier
 

I don’t think you should discredit them just because of their PERE ranking. I’ve heard Lone Star hasn’t been that active but I know several people who work on a lot of interesting stuff alongside really bright people at Fortress.

The rankings move a lot year to year because the criteria is so narrow. If anything, a typically prestigious firm being low on the list means they’ll likely raise capital soon. 

 

If you go to pretty well any of the firms in the PERE 100 you can have a great career. Related Companies is rank 88 for christ's sake, most people here would do anything to work there.

The criteria for this list is so narrow its pretty meaningless in terms of the quality of the firm, it just reflects their past 5 years value add/opportunistic fundraising AFAIK. Think of all the shops out there raising core/core plus capital that probably get missed here. Or places that raised a massive fund or two 5-6 years ago who are going to start fundraising again soon. Because they haven't raised in a few years while deploying capital, should we assume they suck?

These lists are stupid and in the grand scheme of things pretty meaningless.

On another note, RE is an industry where "prestige" means very little. Some of the wealthiest, most successful guys in the industry are running their own shop with small AUM numbers.

 

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