TPG Closes Opportunistic Fund at $6.8B

TREP IV brings the company’s dry powder to a new high.

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TPG Real Estate has closed its latest opportunistic real estate equity fund, TPG Real Estate Partners IV (TREP IV), the company announced on Monday, Oct. 24th. The fund reportedly was oversubscribed, exceeding its hard cap and securing more than $6.8 billion in total commitments.

TREP IV continues TPGRE’s opportunistic real estate fund series, with a strategy focusing on thematic investing primarily in property-rich platforms and strategic portfolio aggregations in the U.S. and Europe. Since inception, TPGRE has invested and committed about $9.1 billion of equity in line with this strategy.

In a prepared statement, Avi Banyasz, partner & co-head of TPG Real Estate, said the company is focused on investing behind themes backed by either long term secular trends or dislocations caused by capital market volatility. “With the close of this fund, we have more dry powder than at any other time in TPGRE’s history,” he added.


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In addition to TREP IV, TPGRE manages TPG Thematic Advantage Core-Plus (TAC+), which pursues thematic real estate investments in the U.S. with stabilized tenancy and enduring cash flow. TAC+ had its final closing earlier in 2022 at its hard cap of approximately $1.8 billion.

TPG Real Estate is the dedicated real estate investment platform of TPG, a global alternative asset management firm with $127 billion of assets under management. TPGRE includes pools of real estate capital dedicated to opportunistic and core plus equity, and residential and commercial debt.

Creative investments

This latest fund’s immediate predecessor, TPG Real Estate Partners III, also was oversubscribed, at a total of more than $3.7 billion in capital commitments.

Investing on that scale requires a broad outlook, and recent TPG deals show that.

An example of that came in June of last year, when a joint venture of Quantum Loophole Inc. and TPG Real Estate Partners announced plans to develop the first clean, mass-scale gigawatt data center community, on a roughly 2,100-acre, former Alcoa aluminum smelter site in Frederick County, Md.

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