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Real Estate Opportunity Fund Performance

By Doug Cornelius

Stephane Fitch of Forbes.com put together a sensationalist piece on real estate opportunity funds: The Other Real Estate Disaster. Fitch puts together some interesting numbers on the extent of holdings by private real estate funds: They account for one-sixth of $2 trillion in total net assets in private equity, says the London firm Private Equity Intelligence, which tracks the industry. A year ago the most closely studied funds in the U.S. were holding $213 billion in commercial real estate equity, leveraged 70% on average. Fitch also touches upon some interesting thoughts comparing the performance of private real estate funds against public REIT stocks. Instead of focusing on these interesting thoughts, Fitch focuses on how the real estate fund performance is a black box revealing little about their current returns...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Estate Space on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).