Private Equity Real Estate magazine's ranking of the world's largest private equity real estate firms.

Released in May 2008, Private Equity Real Estate magazine (PERE) presents the first PERE 30, a ranking of the largest private equity real estate firms in the world. It is the only ranking of private equity real estate firms by size using an apples-to-apples methodology.

Working on background with many of the firms themselves as well as with market sources and industry data services, PERE determines the rankings based on the amount of private equity direct-investment capital raised by each firm over the past five years.

A detailed ranking, along with profiles of each PERE 30 firm and our methodology, is available in the May 2008 issue of Private Equity Real Estate (click here to learn more).

The 30 firms of the PERE 30 are below, and you may download an executive summary of the 2008 rankings here.

Together, PERE 30 firms have raised an aggregate of $190 billion in dedicated, direct-investment private equity real estate programs over a roughly five-year period, from January 1, 2003 until press time in mid April, 2008.

For more information on the PERE 30, contact David Snow at  +1 (212) 633-1455 or david.s@peimedia.com

For an introductory overview of the private equity industry, click here. 

PERE 30 2008
A full report of the PERE 30, including profiles of all 30 firms and our methodology, can be found in the May issue of PERE.


1 The Blackstone Group 
2 Morgan Stanley Real Estate 
3 Tishman Speyer
4 Goldman Sachs Real Estate Principal Investment Area
5 Colony Capital 
6 Lehman Brothers Real Estate 
7 The Carlyle Group 
8 ProLogis
9 Beacon Capital Partners
10 LaSalle Investment Management 
11 MGPA 
12 AEW 
13 Rockpoint Group 
14 Apollo Real Estate Advisors 
15 CB Richard Ellis Investors
16 RREEF Alternative Investments 
17 Grove International Partners
18 Shorenstein Properties 
19 The JBG Companies
20 Citigroup Property Investors (CPI) Capital Partners
21 JER Partners
22 Walton Street Capital 
23 Heitman
24 Aetos Capital 
25 KK daVinci
26 Lubert-Adler
27 Starwood Capital 
28 Fortress Investment Group
29 DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners 
30 RLJ Development