Our unique perspective. Your gateway to distinctive real estate investments.

Our experts at Principal see structurally resilient sub-sectors in real estate where others don’t, backed by our experience as a top-ten global real estate investment manager.1

Our unique perspective. Your power.

We see structurally resilient sectors in real estate where others don’t, backed by our experience as a top-ten global real estate investment manager.1

Economic conditions necessitate a targeted approach

  1. The global economy appears on solid footing, although vulnerable to widening geopolitical conflicts.
  2. Synchronized monetary easing cycles are expected to gradually lessen pressure on capital markets.
  3. Real estate values are stabilizing, and the path to recovery is beginning to crystalize.
  4. Investors should focus on structurally driven property types as the income component is expected to drive returns next year.

Access distinctive opportunities

Secular forces are outweighing cyclical effects in various sectors, creating opportunities for investors. We see several property types that offer robust underlying fundamentals and demonstrate relatively low correlation to other asset classes.

Let’s build something together

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Connect with our experts

Let’s build something together

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Connect with our experts

Access distinctive opportunities

Secular forces are outweighing cyclical effects in various sectors, creating opportunities for investors. We see several property types that offer robust underlying fundamentals and demonstrate relatively low correlation to other asset classes.

Let’s build something together

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Connect with our experts

Let’s build something together

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Connect with our experts

Access distinctive opportunities

Secular forces are outweighing cyclical effects in various sectors, creating opportunities for investors. We see several property types that offer robust underlying fundamentals and demonstrate relatively low correlation to other asset classes.

Let’s build something together

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Connect with our experts

Let’s build something together

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Connect with our experts

Why Principal

Discover why we are the preferred long-term partner in real estate investments, trusted by our clients globally to deliver distinctive solutions across market cycles.

Trusted heritage

140 years As a leader in insurance and investment management with over 60 years of real estate investment expertise.

Specialist expertise

Over 300 Real estate investment specialists2 with extensive connections across all four real estate quadrants that span the full spectrum of public and private equity, and debt.

Scale and scope

Top 10 Global real estate investment manager1 with almost $100 billion in AUM in real estate assets and more than $124 billion in real estate debt and equity transactions3 over the past decade.

Strong foundations

29th Largest Institutional Money Manager globally.4 Our specialist investment teams utilize proprietary research and on-the-ground knowledge backed by our in-depth expertise and company-wide resources to produce tailored insights, aligned to your goals.

Regional expertise

30 years in Asia We’ve almost three decades’ experience providing distinctive investment opportunities for our clients in Asia, supported by over 1,000 team members in 10 markets regionally.

Investment powerhouse

$699 billion Of Assets Under Management (AUM) across Principal Financial Group.

Why Principal Asset Management?

Discover why we are the preferred long-term partner in real estate investments, trusted by our clients to deliver distinctive solutions across market cycles.

Trusted heritage

140 years As a leader in insurance and investment management with over 60 years of real estate investment expertise.

Specialist expertise

Over 320 Real estate investment specialists2 with extensive connections across all four real estate quadrants that span the full spectrum of public and private equity, and debt.

Scale and scope

Top 10 Global real estate investment manager1 with almost $100 billion in AUM in real estate assets and more than $124 billion in real estate debt and equity transactions3 over the past decade.

Strong foundations

Fortune 500 Our specialist investment teams utilize proprietary research and on the ground knowledge backed by our Fortune 500 company-wide resources to produce tailored insight, aligned to your goals.

Why Principal Asset Management?

We’re committed to helping more people and businesses make financial progress.

Trusted heritage of Principal

For more than 140 years, Principal has helped people and businesses confidently reach their goals. Principal Asset Management is the global investment management business for Principal Financial Group.

Specialist expertise

Over 300 Real estate investment specialists2 with extensive connections across all four real estate quadrants that span the full spectrum of public and private equity, and debt.

Scale and scope

Top 10 Global real estate investment manager1 with over $100 billion in AUM in real estate assets and more than $124 billion in real estate debt and equity transactions3 over the past decade.

Strong foundations

Fortune 500 Our specialist investment teams utilize proprietary research and on the ground knowledge backed by Principal Financial Group’s (PFG) Fortune 500 company-wide resources to produce tailored insight, aligned to your goals.

Let’s build something together.

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

Interest

Let’s build something together.

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

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Let’s build something together.

Connect with our investment professionals and discover how we can help create differentiated real estate strategies for your portfolio.

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Citations

Data as of 30 June, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

1 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 2023. “The Largest Real Estate Investment Managers,” Pensions & Investments, 9 October 2023.

2 Includes investment professionals of Principal Real Estate Europe Limited and its affiliates.

3 Excludes public REIT transaction volume.

4 “Largest Money Managers,” Pensions & Investments (June 2024). 29th out of 411 managers profiled. Assets as of 31 December 2023.

Third party rankings and recognitions are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. These ratings should not be construed as an endorsement of the advisor by any client nor are they representative of any one client’s evaluation.

Principal Asset ManagementSM is a trade name of Principal Global Investors, LLC.

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

Principal Global Investors became registered with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) as an investment advisor in 1998. Principal Real Estate become registered with the SEC as an investment advisor in 1999. Investment activities noted prior to this date above were conducted beginning with the investment management area of Principal Life Insurance Company.

Disclosure

For Institutional, Professional, Qualified, and/or Wholesale Investor Use Only in Permitted Jurisdictions as defined by local laws and regulations.

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future return. All financial investments involve an element of risk. Therefore, the value of the investment and the income from it will vary and the initial investment amount cannot be guaranteed.

Potential investors should be aware of the risks inherent to owning and investing in real estate, including: value fluctuations, capital market pricing volatility, liquidity risks, leverage, credit risk, occupancy risk, and legal risk.

Infrastructure issuers may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities and may also be affected by governmental regulation of rates charged to customers, operational or other mishaps, tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies and accounting standards. Foreign securities involve special risks, including currency fluctuations, lower liquidity, political and economic uncertainties and differences in accounting standards. Some international securities may represent small and medium-sized companies, which may be more susceptible to price volatility and may be less liquid than larger companies.

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.

All figures shown are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

© 2024 Principal Financial Services, Inc. Principal®, Principal Financial Group®, Principal Asset Management, and Principal and the logomark design are registered trademarks and service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a Principal Financial Group company, in various countries around the world and may be used only with the permission of Principal Financial Services, Inc. Principal Asset Management is a trade name of Principal Global Investors, LLC. Principal Real Estate is a trade name of Principal Real Estate Investors, LLC, an affiliate of Principal Global Investors.

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Citations

Data as of 30 September 2024, unless otherwise stated.

1 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 2023. “The Largest Real Estate Investment Managers,” Pensions & Investments, 9 October 2023.

2 Includes investment professionals of Principal Real Estate Europe Limited and its affiliates.

3 Excludes public REIT transaction volume.

Third party rankings and recognitions are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. These ratings should not be construed as an endorsement of the advisor by any client nor are they representative of any one client’s evaluation.

Disclosure

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future return. All financial investments involve an element of risk. Therefore, the value of the investment and the income from it will vary and the initial investment amount cannot be guaranteed.

Potential investors should be aware of the risks inherent to owning and investing in real estate, including: value fluctuations, capital market pricing volatility, liquidity risks, leverage, credit risk, occupancy risk, and legal risk.

Infrastructure issuers may be subject to regulation by various governmental authorities and may also be affected by governmental regulation of rates charged to customers, operational or other mishaps, tariffs and changes in tax laws, regulatory policies and accounting standards. Foreign securities involve special risks, including currency fluctuations, lower liquidity, political and economic uncertainties and differences in accounting standards. Some international securities may represent small and medium-sized companies, which may be more susceptible to price volatility and may be less liquid than larger companies.

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.

All figures shown are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

© 2024 Principal Financial Services, Inc. Principal®, Principal Financial Group®, Principal Asset Management, and Principal and the logomark design are registered trademarks and service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a Principal Financial Group company, in various countries around the world and may be used only with the permission of Principal Financial Services, Inc. Principal Asset Management is a trade name of Principal Global Investors, LLC. Principal Real Estate is a trade name of Principal Real Estate Investors, LLC, an affiliate of Principal Global Investors.

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Citations

Data as of September 30, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

1 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 June 30, 2024. “The Largest Real Estate Investment Managers,” Pensions & Investments, October 7, 2024.

2 Includes investment professionals of Principal Real Estate Europe Limited and its affiliates.

3 Excludes public REIT transaction volume.

Third party rankings and recognitions are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. These ratings should not be construed as an endorsement of the advisor by any client nor are they representative of any one client’s evaluation.

Principal Asset ManagementSM is a trade name of Principal Global Investors, LLC.

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

Principal Global Investors became registered with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) as an investment advisor in 1998. Principal Real Estate become registered with the SEC as an investment advisor in 1999. Investment activities noted prior to this date above were conducted beginning with the investment management area of Principal Life Insurance Company.

Disclosure

Past performance does not guarantee future return.

Potential investors should be aware of the risks inherent to owning and investing in real estate, including: value fluctuations, capital market pricing volatility, liquidity risks, leverage, credit risk, occupancy risk, and legal risk.

Principal Funds are distributed by Principal Funds Distributors, Inc.

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

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