After gathering responses from 231 investment managers, Property Funds Research have discovered that the top 100 managers (by real estate AUM) have seen an impressive 20% growth in AUM, with a total aggregated AUM of US$5.19 trillion, for the year. This is an AUM increase of US$2.35 trillion over the last five years.

Of these top 100 firms, the largest investment manager per region is as follows:

North America:  Blackstone with AUM of US$192.9 bn

Europe: Swiss Life Asset Managers with AUM of US$127.1 bn

Asia: GLP with AUM of US$80.5 bn

Australasia: Charter Hall with AUM of US$44.6 bn 

Latin America: PGIM Real Estate with AUM of US$3.5 bn