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Investing in global cities

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A global strategy focused on providing sector diversification by targeting commercial real estate in the cities that we believe are best positioned to benefit from demographic and structural megatrends.

Picking winning cities

The Nuveen Real Estate team recognizes that every city is unique and the strategy for investing in them must be customized. Our team’s proprietary research process identifies the top 2% of cities we believe to be best positioned in light of global megatrends:

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Allocating to strategic sectors

Nuveen’s global cities strategy allocates to high quality assets across core private real estate sectors. But the strategic focus is on the most dynamic segments of the market: industrial, housing and alternative real estate, namely alternative housing, health care and technology. We believe that a number of themes will drive long-term outperformance in these property types.

Below are three examples of themes that drive the strategy’s allocation:

Nuveen is a global asset manager with $1.3 trillion invested across public and private assets and is a top 5 real estate manager globally.

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Harry Bush
Head of UK Wealth
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Savannah Peachey
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As of 31 December 2025, Nuveen assets under management (AUM) is inclusive of underlying investment specialists.
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Top 5 real estate manager globally based on Pensions & Investments Real Estate Managers Special Report, November 2025. Ranking included 63 real estate managers and ranked them by total worldwide real estate assets as of June 30, 2025. Real estate assets are reported net of leverage, including contributions committed or received but not yet invested; REOCs are included with equity; REIT securities are excluded.
Total real estate employees includes 350+ real estate investment professionals, supported by a further 400+ Nuveen employees.

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