Europe’s real estate reset: Capital flows and credit bring cautious optimism
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In this special episode of the PERE Podcast, Jay Patel, Managing Director at Arrow Global, joins Avri Luoma, Head of European Investment at Cain International, to assess the shifting landscape of European real estate. With institutional capital rebalancing away from the US and financing conditions improving, both equity and credit strategies are back in focus. While Avri outlines sectoral trends and the return of core capital, Jay brings a capital flows perspective shaped by recent fundraising across global investors. Reflecting on the timing, Jay said:
“We’re potentially going into that goldilocks moment… if you invest in a new strategy now, its investment window will coincide with historically lucrative vintages post big traumatic events in the financial system”.
For allocators navigating a market defined by uncertainty and opportunity, this conversation offers measured insight into where capital is moving and why.

Jay Patel
Managing Director, Real Estate
Jay joined Arrow in 2023 and is a Managing Director in the Investment Team. He has over 19 years of experience and has invested over €1.5bn in granular real estate transactions spanning traditional equity, distressed credit and special situations.
Prior to joining Arrow, Jay spent 6 years working for Strategic Value Partners where he was a leading figure in building their real estate distressed credit business in Europe. Prior to this, he spent 6 years working for EQT (formerly Wainbridge) leading their opportunistic equity strategy in the UK. Jay also has experience in restructuring and M&A advisory from earlier in his career at Eurohypo and KPMG.
He graduated from Imperial College with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.