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ACRE Solutions Named Among Top Real Estate Secondaries Advisers in PEI Secondaries Investor Advisory Survey 2026 ACRE Solutions was one of 12 advisory firms featured in the PEI Secondaries Investor Advisory Survey 2026. The survey, conducted by PEI Group's Research and Analytics unit, tracks the advisers at the forefront of the secondaries market, with the 12 participating firms advising on roughly $243 billion of transactions that closed in 2025. Read More

Real estate secondaries have evolved from a niche liquidity tool into a mainstream portfolio management mechanism, with record transaction volumes and a rapidly expanding institutional ecosystem. However, questions remain as to whether the market can sustain disciplined pricing and efficient execution in a downturn and whether LPs view secondary sales as a standard portfolio management tool rather than a last resort. Read the full article in PREA Quarterly here: https://www.p

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital services has accelerated demand for data center infrastructure across the United States. Once viewed as a specialized corner of commercial real estate, data centers have become an increasingly important institutional asset class, attracting attention from developers, private equity firms, infrastructure investors, lenders, and long-term capital providers. At the same time, developing and acquiring da

Liquidity Engineering: How Institutions Create Optionality in Closed-End Funds Why This Matters Now Closed-end funds are operating under two simultaneous constraints. Limited partners are seeking liquidity and clearer pacing. Exit markets, however, remain slow and often thin, particularly for assets that require additional time, capital, or refinancing runway. Liquidity tools can address near-term LP needs without forcing value-destructive sales, but only where structure, pri

Why This Matters Now When a capital partner needs liquidity before the business plan is complete, a whole-asset sale typically transfers control to the market at the wrong point in the cycle and often undermines the original underwriting. A JV continuation solves for capital, not operations. The plan remains intact, the operator stays in control, and the exiting partner is redeemed at a fair price. A practical way to view a JV continuation is as a targeted secondary sale of t

Turning Denominator Stress Into Liquidity: A Practical Guide To Real Estate Secondaries What Has Changed and Why It Matters Now Higher interest rates have reset both cap rates and the true cost of debt. Public markets repriced rapidly. Private real estate valuations adjusted more slowly. In that interim period, many institutions breached private allocation policy ranges as total plan assets declined while private NAVs lagged. As a result, a significant number of LPs are manag

GP-Led Secondaries: Liquidity, Control, and the New Playbook Liquidity under pressure Private equity is living through a liquidity squeeze. Exit markets are slow, IPO windows are narrow, and distributions have reset to levels not seen in more than a decade. In that environment, GP led secondaries have moved from niche restructuring tool to primary release valve. What used to be a way to clean up stranded assets has become a core method for managing pacing, crystallizing carry