69 Billion Dollars Raised For Golbal Real Estate Funds This Year
If you are investing in real estate, be prepared for the big boys to be moving in. The demand for high yield investments is surging and many Wall Street players are looking to commercial real estate to achieve great gains. The stock markets are trading at historic highs and people are looking to diversify their earnings.
So all of those mega billion real estate deals over the last year may seem tame in the coming twelve months as the 69 billion is invested in the commercial real estate market.
Morgan Stanley, the biggest real estate investor among Wall Street banks, said today it raised $8 billion to create the largest global property fund. Goldman drew $4.07 billion for a realty fund, twice as much as it originally sought.
More than 100 real estate funds may raise a record $69 billion this year as investors seek better returns than stocks and bonds provide, according to Private Equity Intelligence Ltd. Morgan Stanley’s high-return real estate funds have posted average annual gains of more than 20 percent since 1991, about twice the return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. via Bloomberg.com
