Harrison Street Real Estate Capital

About Harrison Street Real Estate Capital

Harrison Street Real Estate Capital is an institutional alternative investment manager established in 2005 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Its mandate covers a range of real assets, mainly real estate, infrastructure and credit strategies. Solutions include closed-end and open-end funds and specialized vehicles, designed for institutional and private wealth clients. Since inception, the firm has stayed active in alternative investing, building its activity around demographic-driven opportunities that stress long-term value. The firm is known for emphasizing growth and resilience within real assets and draws on deep experience to handle different market cycles for a global investor base. It operates as a collaborative platform and uses its considerable scale to produce results in each strategy. Target asset classes are demographic-driven real estate sectors, namely senior housing, student housing, healthcare and life sciences, together with essential infrastructure and credit. Geographically, it works in North America and Europe, aiming to capture shifting population trends and essential service needs. Investment styles combine core, value-add and opportunistic approaches, so capital can be deployed flexibly depending on asset class and market conditions. Assets with high barriers to entry and consistent demand are preferred, and the firm seeks differentiated solutions with long-term stability. Execution depends on a thorough understanding of local market dynamics and a disciplined underwriting process. The firm remains committed to a specialized investment philosophy so that its portfolio keeps pace with the evolving needs of the modern economy and its varied clientele. Organizationally, Harrison Street has a large global footprint: over 600 employees work from 19 offices worldwide, giving it a local presence in key markets and one unified platform for global operations. More than 1,100 institutional investors back the firm, including pension funds, endowments and insurance companies, plus a growing segment of private wealth clients. That support reflects the firm's longevity and its ability to run complex alternative strategies over two decades. The structure is meant to preserve an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture of specialization, and a robust infrastructure and diverse professional team let it serve sophisticated investors. The firm keeps expanding a comprehensive platform that links institutional capital with high-quality real asset opportunities on several continents.

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