January 27, 2025

JV and pref equity investing should slowly begin to pick up this year as investors need to start moving dry powder. Since the initial rate hikes in March 2022, common equity investments from institutional groups abruptly halted, accumulating a stockpile of dry powder. Many equity investors waited for distressed opportunities and paused their JV platform to start issuing pref equity to achieve high rates of return with debt-like structures. Distressed opportunities have been fewer than the market expected, and those groups will need to deploy to non-distressed product. More