Private equity inflows in realty up by 19% to $3.8 billion in 2019

Commercial real estate sector continued to attract the maximum PE investments, totaling close to $3 billion funds in the first three quarters of 2019

Private equity (PE) firms invested around $3.8 billion in real estate sector from January to September this year, up 19 per cent from $3.2 billion invested during the same period last year.

Of the total investment, $3.6 billion was equity funding - comprising nearly 95 per cent of the overall share - while the remaining five per cent was via structured debt, ANAROCK said. Foreign private equity funds continued to dominate the real estate investment scene with top investors being Blackstone, Hines, Ascendas, Brookefield etc.

Commercial real estate sector continued to attract the maximum PE investments, totalling close to $3