StepStone Real Estate: ‘Stay alive till ‘25’ is the new market cry

The US-based manager said recapitalisations can help borrowers bridge funding gaps and hold on to good assets until the market turns.

In the early 1990s, during the savings and loan crisis, the late real estate investment pioneer Sam Zell coined the phrase “stay alive till ‘95” in expectation of a V-shaped recovery in property values for asset owners that could weather the storm.

In a soon-to-be-published whitepaper, New York-based private markets investment and advisory firm StepStone Group references both past and present downturns, arguing “stay alive till ‘25” is the new market mantra.