Harrison Street Real Estate
Harrison Street Real Estate Capital is a private real estate investment management firm based in Chicago, Illinois founded in 2005.[2] The Firm makes investments through private funds including closed-end opportunity funds, co-investment vehicles, and an open-end core fund. In addition, in December 2010, Harrison Street acquired a REIT Securities advisory firm, and launched Harrison Street Securities, which provides investors with actively managed commingled funds, separate accounts, and mutual fund products investing in public REIT Securities.[3]
Private | |
Industry | Private Equity |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Christopher Merrill Chris Galvin Michael Galvin |
Headquarters | 444 W. Lake Street Chicago, Illinois 60606 United States |
Products | Real estate |
AUM | ![]() |
Total assets | 884 acquired or developed properties since inception, 363 sold properties since inception [1] |
Number of employees | 100 (2017) |
Website | www.harrrisonst.com |
Over $7.1 billion in discretionary capital has been raised in-house for the firm’s private funds. Investors are globally diversified and include public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and family offices.[4]
For the past three years the firm has been named to the PERE 50 list, which ranks the 50 largest private equity real estate firms in the world.[5] In December 2015, Forbes featured the firm in a piece titled “Real Estate for the Ages,”.[6]
History
The firm started its business in 2005. Today the firm has assets under management of approximately $17.2 billion and since inception has acquired or developed approximately $23 B of real estate throughout 884 properties in 48 states including over 147,000 student beds, more than 24,0000 senior housing units, 212 healthcare office buildings, and more than 135,000 self-storage units. [1]
In March 2016, Harrison Street Real Estate announced the completion of its acquisition of Campus Crest Communities, Inc. (NYSE:CCG), a student housing property of over 76,000 beds on 85 campuses.