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Suggested Resources

Private Equity - Funds, Firms, Transactions, etc.

Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. Has a separate real estate section and newly added screening for real estate deals.

Capital IQ
Data on PE transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Sign up for a personal account here.

Refinitiv Workspace
PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information.

Moody’s Analytics CRE
Search millions of real estate data points that cover every commercially zoned property in the U.S. Provides trend and forecast coverage across 10 major commercial real estate sectors, 275+ markets, and 3,000+ submarkets. Includes market transactions and performance trends. 

Real Capital Analytics (RCA)
Search over $40 trillion in commercial property transactions tied to 200,000+ investor and lender profiles, spanning diverse property types and global markets.

VCPE Research Guide 
A great starting place for research on the venture capital and private equity industry; this guide points to the best resources available to the HBS community.

Private Equity Publications

Private Equity International (PEI)
Daily newsletter on the people, the deals, the funds and the financial trends of the industry. (Individual account required).

Private Equity Real Estate (PERE)
Provides global information on private real estate investments and deals. (Individual account required).

The Real Deal
Provides real estate news, data, market intelligence, research, proprietary rankings, deal analysis, profiles, and trends. (Individual account required)

Journal of Private Equity
Presents research and highlights trends and strategies for private equity investing. Most recent issue dated Winter 2019. 

Bloomberg.com
Access the complete content of Bloomberg.com including global business news, daily and weekly newsletters, podcasts and the full-text of Bloomberg Businessweek.

News

Factiva - Good source for company and industry news.

Video: Using Factiva - brief overview on how to use Factiva, including how to search a specific Publication (e.g.: Private Equity International, article availability in Factiva ended August 2022).

Also, Baker's Venture Capital & Private Equity research guide is a good place to start. It highlights major industry-specific publications, many of which cover industry news & developments.