Private equity investors will have close to a record level of capital at their disposal in 2017, with an aggregate amount of $237 billion raised for investment in commercial real estate globally, according to London-based research firm Preqin. The figure is just shy of the post-financial-crisis high of $241 billion spent by private equity real estate fund managers globally in acquiring assets in 2015, according to Andy Moylan, head of real estate products at Preqin. But it’s above the 2016 total of $202 billion in investments.