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Blackstone real estate managing director rushes back to Harro

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Jul 22, 2025 – 1.56pm

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David Harrison’s Charter Hall has reclaimed a former dealmaker from Blackstone.

Craig Newman, a managing director in the private capital firm’s real estate group, has resigned and is returning to the fold at Charter Hall, where he ran its $12.5 billion wholesale office fund for three years until 2017.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.