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Non-traded REITs — the BREIT story and the lesson

Non-traded REITs (Blackstone BREIT, Starwood SREIT, KKR KREST, Brookfield BREIF) offer daily-marked NAV and quarterly redemption windows. The 2022–2024 redemption episode showed the liquidity is conditional — and below mega-platform scale, it can break.

BREIT grew to over $70 billion in NAV by late 2022, then hit redemption requests exceeding its 5% quarterly gate. Peak monthly redemptions reached $5.3 billion in January 2023. By February 2024, BREIT was meeting 100% of requests; by March 2024, the gate was fully lifted.

Starwood's SREIT had a much harder recovery — it limited redemptions for 29 consecutive months through March 2025. The lesson: the semi-liquid wrapper works only when the manager has truly perpetual capital and is large enough to weather extended gate periods. Mid-scale non-traded REITs structurally cannot.

For investors who can tolerate locked capital for years, the largest sponsors have demonstrated resilience. For investors who need true liquidity, public REITs (VNQ, individual names) are the right choice.

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