PERE Japan Korea Week 2026

PERE Japan Korea Week is a four-day dual-city programme covering the Japanese and Korean institutional real estate markets — produced by PERE (PEI Group), the trade publication that has tracked global real estate private equity since its emergence. The format moves between Tokyo and Seoul over the course of the week, reflecting the reality that the two markets, while neighboring, have substantively distinct allocator dynamics, deal types and GP sets.

Japan programming concentrates on the institutional real estate themes that have made Tokyo one of the most active global REPE markets: logistics asset development and consolidation, the rapid build-out of multifamily as an institutional category, hospitality recovery and growth, the data center pipeline, and the operationalization of office repositioning. Japanese institutional capital — the major life insurers, trust banks and pension funds — has its own decision-making rhythm and outbound allocation patterns that the conference treats as core programming.

Korean programming reflects the increasingly important Korean institutional outbound real estate flows alongside the domestic Korean market. NPS, KIC and the major Korean life insurers are now structurally important global real estate LPs; sessions concentrate on how that capital is being deployed and what manager selection criteria look like in 2026.

Cross-market programming runs through the week: Asian logistics capital flows, the data center pipeline across the region, the divergence between Japanese and Korean residential and hospitality dynamics, and the practical mechanics of cross-border real estate JVs and platforms.

Japanese and Korean institutional real estate allocators (life insurers, pension funds, trust banks, sovereign-adjacent funds); global REPE GPs with Asian platforms; Asian REPE GPs; the legal, banking, valuation and operating ecosystem.

Japan and Korea are two of the largest and most distinctive real estate institutional markets in the world, and the cross-flow of capital between them and global REPE is structurally significant. The dual-city format is the most efficient way for global GPs and LPs to cover both markets in a single trip.