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Access diverse global real estate opportunities.

You want choice and customization when building a real estate portfolio. Our 360° view of global real estate allows us to deliver a broad range of diverse, customized real estate solutions designed to help meet your risk and return objectives.

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Pursue your objectives with a top 10 global real estate manager across all quadrants.

  • Four quadrant managerReal estate solutions across public and private equity and debt.
  • Broad market accessUnited States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
  • Market level expertiseOver 300 tenured investment professionals, providing a deep understanding of local markets.
  • Responsible approach to investingDriving positive financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes.
  • Trusted experienceOver 65 years of real estate investment experience.1
  • Multiple risk-return optionsCore, Core-Plus, Value-Add, and Opportunistic solutions.
  • Research-based investingFundamental to assessing relative value within and across the real estate quadrants.

Inside Real Estate Today

Listen to Rich Hill, Global Head of Real Estate Research & Strategy, as he highlights the evolving trends shaping today’s commercial real estate market and what they mean for investors.

A broad range of real estate investment solutions.

Our experienced investment teams provide comprehensive, specialized, and sustainable capabilities across all four quadrants of commercial real estate—public equity, private equity, public debt, and private debt—as well as infrastructure investing. Whatever real estate strategy or combination of strategies you believe is right for your objectives, we can help.

Core, Value-add, and Opportunistic Strategies
Commercial Mortgages and High Yield Debt
Listed Infrastructure Securities
Listed REIT Securities
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
Private Debt Origination

Using research to inform investment decisions.

Our investment strategy and research process sits at the heart of our ability to assess relative value globally, both within and across quadrants, and to deliver on investment solutions. Our investment teams rely on our analyses and insights to inform their investment decisions.

Depth of research

Our deep macroeconomic and microeconomic research incorporates analysis of economic, demographic, political, technological, property, and capital market trends.

Proprietary forecasts

Data from our extensive equity and debt transaction, leasing, and asset management portfolio is combined with external and capital markets knowledge to develop forecasts for the markets and strategies that we cover.

Relative value assessment

To determine relative value, we also use capital markets information including cap rate and pricing trends. This helps us evaluate whether current commercial real estate market trends are accurately priced.

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2025 Inside Real Estate Outlook

Poised for growth

We feel that the long-awaited turning point has arrived for commercial real estate. Read our 2025 outlook for detailed insights.

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Explore our featured real estate strategies.

Our 360° view of global real estate gives us the insight needed to help you identify strategies that can offer compelling performance.

Data Centers

Diversify your portfolio and enhance potential for risk-adjusted returns by accessing an exciting sector experiencing unprecedented growth as a result of digital transformation and global demand for data.

European Hotels

Targeting areas of distress in the European hotel sector to unlock and create value.

Global Listed Infrastructure

Offers exposure to the global infrastructure market, emphasizing research-driven stock selection as the primary driver of excess returns.

U.S. Real Estate Securities

Applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.

Global Real Estate Securities

Offers exposure to the global real estate market, applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.

Liquid Debt

Market-responsive, flexible strategy designed to move up and down the risk spectrum based on assessment of risk premiums relative to the outlook for longer term fundamental investment performance.

U.S. Core Private Equity Real Estate

Deploying a research-based allocation framework with in-depth coverage of more than 40 U.S. metropolitan real estate markets to invest in a diversified pool of high-quality, well-leased U.S. commercial real estate properties, including a long-standing allocation to alternative growing pool of niche property sectors.

U.S. Core-Plus Private Equity Real Estate

Combining the income-generating attributes of stabilized assets with higher, risk-adjusted returns available from value-added and development opportunities.

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1 Principal Real Estate Investors became registered with the SEC in November 1999. Activities noted prior to this date were conducted beginning with the real estate investment management area of Principal Life Insurance Company and later Principal Capital Real Estate Investors, LLC, the predecessor firm to Principal Real Estate Investors.

For the top 10 rating: Managers ranked by total worldwide real estate assets (net of leverage, including contributions committed or received, but not yet invested; REOCs are included with equity; REIT securities are excluded), as of 30 June 2024. “The Largest Real Estate Investment Managers,” Pensions & Investments, 7 October 2024.

Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Real estate investment options are subject to risks associated with credit, liquidity, interest rate fluctuation, adverse general and local economic conditions, and decreases in real estate values and occupancy rates.

Principal Real Estate is a trade name of Principal Real Estate Investors, LLC, an affiliate of Principal Global Investors.