Midwest markets emerge as self-storage growth hub as capital realigns, Nuveen says

by Andrea Zander

As capital reallocates and pricing gaps persist across U.S. real estate, investors are increasingly focused on precision — where to invest, how to structure deals and how to create value post-acquisition. Melissa Reagen, portfolio manager, U.S. strategic alternatives strategy, and Matt Neary, director, alternatives and strategic transactions, Americas, at Nuveen, discuss the self-storage sector in an interview with Institutional Real Estate, Inc., addressing broader factors influencing investment decisions, including capital flows, affordability patterns and the growing use of data and artificial intelligence (AI).

Blackstone forms JV with Google to create new TPU cloud

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Blackstone has formed a joint venture with Google Cloud.

Structured hybrid work becomes the global norm as strategic focus shifts to AI-readiness

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The global workforce has found its post-pandemic equilibrium, stabilizing around structured hybrid models, according to JLL’s Global Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report 2026. The report draws on insights from 84 organizations representing 716 million square feet of portfolios across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

Sachem Capital Corp., Industrial Realty Group create IRG Realty Trust

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Sachem Capital Corp., a real estate lender specializing in originating, underwriting, funding, servicing and managing a portfolio of loans secured by first mortgages on real property, and Industrial Realty Group (IRG).