Lead Sponsors

About DWS Real Estate

DWS has been investing in real estate assets for more than 50 years. As part of the Alternatives platform, the real estate business has around 350 employees in over 22 cities around the world and more than EUR 64 billion in global real estate assets under management (September 30, 2025). Providing a diverse range of strategies and solutions across the risk/return and geographic spectrums, we offer core, value-added and opportunistic real estate, real estate debt and real estate securities. The real estate investment business employs a disciplined investment approach and aims to deliver attractive long-term risk adjusted returns, preservation of capital and diversification to its investors, which include governments, corporations, insurance companies, endowments, retirement plans, and private clients worldwide.

About DWS Group

DWS Group (DWS), with EUR 1,054bn of total assets under management (as of 30 September 2025), is a leading European asset manager with global reach. With approximately 4,900 employees in offices around

the world, DWS offers individuals, institutions and large corporations access to comprehensive investment solutions and bespoke portfolios across the full spectrum of investment disciplines. Its diverse expertise in Active, Passive and Alternative asset management enables DWS to deliver targeted solutions for clients across all major liquid and illiquid asset classes.

Heitman is a global real estate investment management firm with AUD 73 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Chicago, Heitman has 10 offices worldwide and is an active participant in the global real estate property and capital markets. Heitman makes real estate investments through private equity, debt, and publicly-traded real estate securities. Heitman is currently managing AUD 10 billion across real estate equity and debt strategies on behalf of 19 Australian mandates, as of September 30, 2025. 

For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $23.4 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 113,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.

Support Sponsors

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates approximately $350 billion of real estate in approximately 260 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing more than one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms, Greystar has over $79 billion of assets under management, including over $34 billion of development assets and approximately $36.5 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com

KordaMentha has launched Kinkora Investments, consolidating its real estate investment activities into a single, dedicated platform. Operating as a focused investment manager within the KordaMentha Group, Kinkora Investments is designed to meet the demands of a more selective market through disciplined execution, active management and a clear focus on performance.

Coffee Break Sponsor

Yardi has a single focus on the real estate industry and provides cloud-based software that helps real estate companies optimise their operations. Our unified platform serves as a single source of truth across asset classes and geographies, offering enhanced visibility and control through integrated AI and analytics. By streamlining investment, asset, and property management processes, Yardi’s solution enables improved return on investment across your portfolio.  Yardi’s single integrated platform reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while ensuring compliance with regulations and enables scalability to manage portfolios of any size or location.

Our comprehensive solution allows investment and property managers to improve efficiency, manage risks, increase revenue and gain valuable insights across office, retail, industrial, residential build to rent. With expertise in key markets across Asia Pacific, and a focus on continuous innovation, Yardi acts as a strategic partner that transforms how real estate businesses operate and succeed in a complex global environment.

Associate Sponsor

Pro-invest Group was founded in 2010 with a mission to create sustainable returns in an effective and responsible way. As a trusted partner, we have facilitated investors accessing real estate opportunities in the Australasian and European markets, with c. $3 billion of assets that Pro-invest manages.

Our integrated platform covers the end-to-end investment process, from structuring and managing funds through to development and operations.

By using in-depth mark knowledge and extensive experience, our specialists rigorously assess opportunities, develop value adding investment strategies, and reduce price risk.

Supporting Organisation

Since 1987, Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) has been a force, providing institutional real estate and infrastructure investors as well as private wealth advisers with decision-making information and tools via its publications, conferences and research & consulting services.

IREI publishes a diversified portfolio of news magazines, special reports and directories for the benefit of the global infrastructure and institutional real estate investment community and for private wealth advisers in the United States. Each publication provides subscribers with news, insights and perspectives on the trends and events shaping the industry and the investment landscape. IREI is also the operator of the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC). 

The firm's flagship publication, Institutional Real Estate Americas, has been the industry's go-to resource for 39 years. To learn more visit: https://irei.com