On 16th January the Canadian Pension Plan announced it had joined an investment  consortium, including the apartment operator Greystar Real Estate Partners and Cyrela Brazil Realty, which will partner with the real estate developer SKR to develop, own and then operate a multi-family rental project in São Paulo’s Pinheiros/Rebouças district.

If there were a competition to find the most complex, enigmatic and problematic country in the world when it comes to demographic factors and social issues, Brazil would certainly be in the top three.