Principal Real Estate Investors is a top 10 global real estate manager and is the dedicated real estate investment group within Principal Global Investors. We build on a vertically integrated platform that incorporates all disciplines of commercial real estate. By providing access to opportunities across the spectrum of public and private equity and debt investments, our clients are able to customize their real estate portfolios to their specific objectives, including sustainability and risk management guidelines.

Our capabilities are backed by more than 60 years of real estate investment experience, when we started as part of the real estate investment department of Principal Life Insurance Company.

Since then, we’ve built a top-tier investment platform that provides comprehensive, specialized capabilities across all four quadrants of commercial real estate—public equity, private equity, public debt, and private debt. This platform gives us a unique perspective on real estate space and capital markets, allowing us to deliver solutions that meet your investment goals. 

Managers ranked by total worldwide assets (net of leverage, including contributions committed or received, but not yet invested,

REIT securities are excluded), as of 30 June 2021. Pensions & Investments, 4 October 2021