Item 1. | Security and Issuer |
(a) | Title of Class of Securities:
Institutional Class Common Shares |
(b) | Name of Issuer:
PIMCO FLEXIBLE REAL ESTATE INCOME FUND |
(c) | Address of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
650 NEWPORT CENTER DRIVE, NEWPORT BEACH,
CALIFORNIA
, 92660. |
Item 1 Comment:
This Schedule 13D, as amended, of the Reporting Person ("Schedule") is being filed to report a change in beneficial ownership resulting from the recent acquisition of shares, and to update the percentage of shares beneficially owned as reported in the Schedule 13D/As filed on January 23, 2025 and January 27, 2025 (collectively, the "January Reports"), which were based on the number of Institutional Class Shares Outstanding. The updates are as follows: On January 23, 2025, the Reporting Person beneficially owned 9.1% based on total Common Shares outstanding as of January 21, 2025 of 28,941,346. On January 27, 2025, the Reporting Person beneficially owned 10.8% based on total Common Shares outstanding as of January 23, 2025 of 29,004,532. Except as set forth herein, the January Reports and the Schedule are unmodified. |
Item 3. | Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration |
| On February 5, 2025, the Reporting Person bought 1,000,000 shares at $10.49 per share in the open market for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $10,490,000. The source of funds for such purchases was the existing personal funds of the Reporting Person. |
Item 5. | Interest in Securities of the Issuer |
(a) | The Reporting Person beneficially owns 4,138,497.188 Common Shares directly and an aggregate of 79,608.01 Common Shares held through two trusts for the benefit of 2 children and as to which the Reporting Person is trustee, which represents approximately 13.7% of the Issuer's currently outstanding Common Shares, based upon 30,219,707 Common Shares outstanding as of February 5, 2025. |
(b) | The Reporting Person has the sole power to vote or direct the vote, and to dispose or direct the disposition of, all of the Common Shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Person described in paragraph (a) above. |
(c) | Except as set forth in the Schedule filed with the SEC on January 27, 2025, as amended hereto, and as supplemented in Item 3, the Reporting Person has not effected any transactions in the Issuer's Common Shares within the past 60 days. |
(d) | No person other than the Reporting Person has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds of the sale of, his Common Shares. |
(e) | Not applicable. |