Madeleine Farman

The strong growth of continuation vehicles signals that the real estate secondaries market has shed its reputation as a last resort for distress-driven strategies.

KKR believes it can build a ‘world-class’ business targeting the sub-segment, CFO Robert Lewin said on the firm’s Q2 2026 earnings call.

The Chicago-based firm’s $2.7bn Fund 8, raised as part of a $5bn secondaries programme, seeks a 50/50 split for LP-led and GP-led deployment, with a focus on North America and Europe.

The insurer had shopped a portfolio of funds and co-investments with a net asset value of $1.8bn, Secondaries Investor understands.

Four of the firm's cornerstone evergreen products are heavily weighted to secondaries investments.

The GP stakes giant is ‘excited’ at the prospect of working with the tail-end specialist to grow it into ‘one of the premier operators in this market’, founding partner and chief executive John Carter tells Secondaries Investor.

The director reunites with former colleague Michael Wieczorek, who joined UBS to head its EMEA secondaries advisory unit earlier this year from DC Advisory.

Blackstone Strategic Partners anchored EQT’s new AI Infrastructure Fund. Once again, secondaries has created a blueprint for loftier goals.

The new legislation will bring buyers’ offshore execution to an end, which under stamp duty came with its own grey areas in a digital age, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Elliot Weston tells Secondaries Investor.

Blackstone Strategic Partners anchored EQT’s new AI Infrastructure Fund. Once again, secondaries has created a blueprint for loftier goals.