| It’s always good to have deep pockets, but few institutional investors carry checkbooks backed by entire nations. Yet point to one of New York City’s recent big-ticket real estate deals and there’s a good chance a sovereign wealth fund was one of the buyers.
Through the first 11 months of 2015, sovereign wealth funds spent more than $22.6 billion on real estate in the United States, up from about $9.8 billion in 2014, according to research firm Real Capital Analytics. “If you need billions of dollars for a project, where are you going to go?” said Savills Studley executive managing director Woody Heller, who heads the brokerage’s capital markets group...............................................Full Article: Source
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