Below is a list of notable real estate investment firms.
Largest investment managers by real estate assets under management Institutional Real Estate, Inc.'s annual IRE.IQ Real Estate Managers Guide lists real estate investment managers by their real estate assets under management (AUM). In 2025, the listed real estate managers have more than $5.1 trillion in real estate AUM, with the top 10 largest firms holding $2.2 trillion in real estate AUM and the top 50 firms holding $4.4 trillion in real estate AUM.
+ Top 10 real estate managers by gross value of real estate AUM ($m) as of 31 December 2024 Real estate manager Total North America (U.S. & Canada) Europe, Middle East & Africa Asia Pacific Latin America Blackstone 602,000.00 N/A N/A N/A N/A Brookfield Asset Management 277,333.00 178,602.00 58,466.00 34,158.00 6,1707.00 Prologis 197,559.00 149,157.00 31,412.00 12,841.00 4,149.00 MetLife Investment Management 196,294.51 183,615.72 2,920.02 5,550.12 4,208.63 PIMCO 174,000.00 39,000.00 59,000.00 12,300.00 0.00 PGIM Real Estate 158,982.20 129,932.15 13,771.74 8,808.67 2,315.97 UBS Asset Management 157,172.52 36,737,67 113,269.81 7,165.03 0.00 CBRE Investment Management 146,250.00 60,204.00 65,098.00 20,930.00 18.00 ESR 141,700.00 0.00 22,600.00 119,100.00 0.00 Nuveen Real Estate 140,757.30 108,560.60 26,569.20 5,627.50 0.00
Largest private real estate companies by capital raised Each year Private Equity International publishes the PERE 100, a ranking of the largest private equity real estate companies by how much capital they have raised for investment in the last five years.
In the 2024 ranking, Blackstone Inc. retained top spot. 2024 PERE 100 rankFirmHeadquartersFive-year fundraising total ($m)1Blackstone Inc. New York City63,4572Brookfield Asset Management Toronto39,7973TPG Inc. Fort Worth, Texas24,0204BGO New York City19,0265GLP Capital Partners Singapore16,8426Cerberus Capital Management New York City15,8847Blue Owl Real Estate Chicago15,3618Ares Management Los Angeles15,2729Hines Houston14,00310ESR Group Hong Kong13,841
Notable private real estate investment firms Americas
AEW Capital Management Angelo Gordon Apollo Global Management Ares Management Bain Capital Barings LLC Beacon Capital Partners BentallGreenOak Blackstone Inc. Bridge Investment Group Brookfield Asset Management Cadillac Fairview CBRE Investment Management Centerbridge Partners Cerberus Capital Management CIM Group Clarion Partners Cohen & Steers Enterprise Community Partners Equity International Fortress Investment Group Greystar Real Estate Partners GTIS Partners Harbert Management Corporation Harrison Street Real Estate Capital Heitman LLC HIG Realty Partners Hines Ivanhoé Cambridge JRK Property Holdings Kennedy Wilson KKR LaSalle Investment Management Lone Star Funds MCR Hotels Nuveen Real Estate Oak Street Capital Oaktree Capital Management Oxford Properties PineBridge Benson Elliot Pretium Partners QuadReal Property Group Rithm Capital Rockpoint Group Sculptor Capital Management Southwest Value Partners Starlight Investments Starwood Capital Group StepStone Group Stockbridge Capital Group The Carlyle Group Tishman Speyer TPG Tricon Residential Walton Street Capital Warburg Pincus
Asia
BPEA EQT CapitaLand Charter Hall DNE Group ESR Group Gaw Capital GLP Hony Capital IGIS Asset Management Keppel Capital Lendlease PAG Phoenix Property Investors Queensland Investment Corporation Sino-Ocean Capital
EMEA
Ardian BC Partners Bouwfonds CapMan COIMA EQT Exeter Europa Capital Kildare Partners MARK Capital Management Partners Group Patrizia SE
Notable real estate investment trusts Americas
Aimco Alexander's Alexandria Real Estate Equities American Campus Communities American Homes 4 Rent American Tower Americold Annaly Capital Management Arlington Asset Investment Boston Properties Brandywine Realty Trust Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust Brookfield Property Partners Brixmor Property Group Camden Property Trust CAPREIT CBL Properties Cedar Realty Trust Chartwell Retirement Residences Choice Properties REIT Cominar REIT CoreCivic Corporate Office Properties Trust Cousins Properties Crombie REIT Crown Castle CubeSmart Digital Realty Dream Industrial REIT Dream Office REIT EPR Properties Equinix Essex Property Trust Extended Stay America Extra Space Storage Federal Realty Investment Trust First Capital REIT Gaming and Leisure Properties GEO Group Granite Real Estate H&R REIT Healthpeak Properties Hersha Hotels and Resorts Host Hotels & Resorts Hudson Pacific Properties InnSuites Hospitality InterRent REIT InvenTrust Properties Invitation Homes Iron Mountain JBG Smith Kimco Realty Lamar Advertising Company Life Storage Macerich Medical Properties Trust MGM Growth Properties Mid-America Apartment Communities Minto Apartment REIT Morguard REIT National Retail Properties Outfront Media Park Hotels & Resorts PotlatchDeltic PREIT Prologis PS Business Parks Public Storage Quality Technology Services Rayonier Realty Income Regency Centers RioCan REIT RPT Realty SBA Communications Simon Property Group SITE Centers SL Green Realty Store Capital Sun Communities Tanger Factory Outlet Centers UDR UMH Properties Urstadt Biddle Properties Ventas Veris Residential Vici Properties Vivmark Residential Vornado Realty Trust W. P. Carey Washington Prime Group Welltower Weyerhaeuser Xenia Hotels & Resorts
Asia
Champion REIT Dexus Goodman Group GPT Group Hui Xian REIT Link REIT Stockland Vicinity Centres
EMEA
Apache Capital Partners Big Yellow Group British Land Briston Cofinimmo Derwent London Great Portland Estates Hammerson Hansteen Holdings Intu Irish Residential Properties REIT Landsec LondonMetric Property NewRiver Primary Health Properties Safestore Shaftesbury Soho Estates Segro Unite Students Workspace Group
See also List of asset management firms List of private-equity firms Private equity real estate Real estate investment trust
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