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Torchlight Debt Fund VII is the largest US real estate debt fund to be closed this year.

More than 150 delegates gathered at PERE’s first live event since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to hear how repositioning assets will be key to their future resilience. But, currently, there are as many questions as answers as to how to do it.

The firm made an $89m preferred equity investment in a $534m portfolio.

James Jacobs, head of real estate for Lazard’s private capital advisory group, says the easing of restrictions on both sides of the Atlantic is changing institutions’ appetite for risk.

The oversubscribed vehicle attracted commitments from institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals alike betting on a hospitality comeback.

Is now the time for private real estate investors to generate returns in retail property and, if so, how should they go about it?

More than half of the capital for the California firm’s latest vehicle came from the region, much of it from first-time investors.

Asia-Pacific real estate funds recorded the biggest year-on-year growth in terms of total capital raised in the first half of 2020.

The Chicago-based manager’s latest real estate debt fund carries the same strategy as its predecessor, but the lower return targets are a function of the late cycle, PERE has learned from a source.

The $356bn manager’s purchase of New York-based Almanac Realty Partners also marks its largest acquisition to date.