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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.

Real Estate Insights

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New opportunities in real estate demand a global view

Falling interest rates have breathed new life into the real estate sector, making it an appealing asset class once again
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Real estate investment enters a new era

Alternative sub-sectors offer unique demand drivers and the potential to outperform core real estate sectors
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Global RE Trends and Tactics

Discover the latest quarterly real estate market trends in our quarterly research report.
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Ken Hudson
Managing Director, Institutional Business Development

As of 31 December 2024, Nuveen assets under management (AUM) is inclusive of underlying investment specialists.
Years of real estate investing experience as of 31 Dec 2024
Top 5 real estate manager globally based on Pensions & Investments, Oct 2024. Rankings based on total worldwide farmland assets under management as of 30 Jun 2024 as reported by each responding asset manager; updated annually.
Total real estate employees includes 360+ real estate investment professionals, supported by a further 410+ Nuveen employees.

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