CLEVELAND (Nov. 26, 2018) –  The Townsend Group, an Aon company and leading provider of global investment solutions for real estate and real assets, today announced that it has raised $767 million from leading U.S. and Asian investors for its Townsend Real Estate Alpha (“TREA”) global value-add real estate strategy. The capital raising began in May 2018 and is expected to continue through Q2 2019.

Terry Ahern, CEO of The Townsend Group, said, “We have built a unique investment platform that brings us competitive advantages in sourcing and underwriting. The TREA strategy provides us the opportunity to continue to achieve positive risk adjusted returns for our clients. For the first time, we opened the TREA strategy to European investors in Q3 of 2018 and see continued interest in the U.S. and Asia. We look forward to completing the remaining fund-raise for our strategy in 2019 and continuing our decade-plus track record of value-add investing.”

Since 2007, the Townsend investment platform has deployed $4.6 billion in 100 co-investments, joint ventures and secondary transactions with over 60 real estate investment managers/operators throughout Europe, Asia and North & South America.

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