Sculptor Raises $4.6 Billion for Fifth Opportunistic Equity Real Estate Fund

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 3, 2025--

Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. (“Sculptor” or the “Firm”), a leading global alternative asset manager specializing in opportunistic investing, today announced the final close of Sculptor Real Estate Fund V (the “Fund”) with $4.6 billion in commitments, exceeding the Fund’s $3 billion target and reaching its hard cap. The Firm also closed an additional $825 million of co-investment capital, allowing investors to participate alongside the flagship vehicle. The Fund sits within Sculptor’s broader real estate platform, alongside the Firm’s opportunistic credit and core+ real estate strategies, which collectively enhance its ability to source, structure, and execute differentiated opportunities. The Fund received significant support from both new and existing institutional investors globally.

Consistent with its predecessor vehicles, the Fund seeks value-based, situationally opportunistic investments and aims to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns by leveraging Sculptor Real Estate’s extensive experience spanning 30 asset classes, including hospitality, gaming and leisure, digital infrastructure, healthcare, logistics, and cold storage, among others.

“For more than 20 years, we have shown that our expertise and experience investing in non-traditional real estate provides attractive income and total returns with less macro correlation and lower volatility,” said Steven Orbuch, Founder and President of Sculptor Real Estate. “Our broad sector diversification, long-tenured team, and disciplined investment approach have uniquely positioned us to identify and capitalize on the exciting opportunities that exist and deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns to our investors.”

Nicholas Hecker, Chief Investment Officer of Sculptor Real Estate, said, “We are extremely grateful for our investors’ continued support of our strategy and look forward to continuing to focus on generating opportunistic returns with modest leverage and attractive current cash yields.”

Since its inception in 2003, Sculptor Real Estate has completed over 220 investments across 30 different real estate asset classes, representing over $27 billion of total enterprise value.

About Sculptor Real Estate

Sculptor Real Estate was founded in 2003 and has invested in over $27 billion of real estate assets across 30 different real estate-related asset classes including direct equity investments, preferred equity structures, ground leases, senior loans, mezzanine loans, among other real estate investments. Sculptor Real Estate is an investment solution offered by Sculptor Capital Management, a leading global alternative asset management firm with approximately $37 billion in assets under management. For more information, visit www.sculptor.com.

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