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Special situations arise when fundamentally strong assets face financial or liquidity challenges, such as near-term debt maturities, impaired equity, or sponsors without access to additional capital. The current market has created more opportunities for investors providing structured, solution-oriented capital. Success in these situations requires a flexible, collaborative partner capable of delivering tailored solutions. In an exclusive interview with IREI, Mark Van Zandt, managing director and co-head of real estate at King Street Capital Management, explained how the firm focuses on structured investments that address financial, rather than operational, stress.

BlueWater Marinas has acquired Bayside Marine, a full-service marina located in Duxbury, Mass.

Cabot Properties has acquired two modern logistics portfolios in Florida.

JLL‘s Capital Markets has arranged a $596 million refinancing for the office towers and atrium building at The Crescent, a landmark mixed-use property totaling 1.3 million square feet in Uptown Dallas.

RXR has secured $407 million in mortgage financing led by Morgan Stanley and including Bank of America to refinance 450 Lexington Avenue, a class A office tower in Midtown Manhattan.

JLL has been selected by Brown University Health (BUH) in Rhode Island to support the strategic oversight and management of its combined Brown University Health real estate portfolio.  

Noble Investment Group has appointed Omar Mont-Louis and Tom Embry to its asset management leadership team.

H.I.G. Capital has acquired a third asset for its Central London Living Platform. The Platform is being delivered through a joint venture with HUB, a U.K. residential developer.

Global central banks are largely holding rates steady amid heightened uncertainty around growth and inflation, creating a more complex outlook for commercial real estate, according to Ryan Severino, Chief Economist at BGO, in his quarterly update.

PGIM has purchased a 20.7-hectare site in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, with plans to invest A$1.2 billion ($850 million) into a new data center development.

The California States Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has appointed Nick Abel has been appointed sustainable investment and stewardship strategies investment director.

Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG) has acquired Boston Bay and Hope Bay, two adjacent affordable housing properties comprising 133 family units in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.

Commercial real estate disasters rarely look like the ones that dominate the evening news. Homes burn. Neighborhoods flood. Dramatic footage follows. But for institutional property owners, the real damage often unfolds quietly — inside mechanical rooms, elevator shafts, electrical systems and decision-making chains that move too slowly.

Institutional real estate firms are rethinking deal sourcing, data infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) adoption as technology becomes more deeply embedded in investment workflows. In an interview with IREI, Mike Sroka, co-founder and CEO of DealPath, discusses how platforms such as Dealpath Connect are shifting broker-buyer dynamics toward more structured, criteria-driven discovery, while outlining why data quality, transparency and governance remain central to building trust in AI. He also shares practical steps firms are taking to move from AI experimentation to measurable impact, emphasizing pragmatic-use cases, human oversight and the importance of building a strong data foundation before pursuing more advanced AI capabilities.

AEW has acquired a fully leased data center asset in the heart of the Nuremberg metropolitan area, Germany.

Barings, on behalf of a core European real estate strategy, has sold the Berceo shopping center to Castellana Properties for €108 million ($118 million).

U.S. cap rates showed signs of stability in the second half of 2025 as volatility eased, according to CBRE’s U.S. Cap Rate Survey H2 2025.

Carestone Group, a Germany-based senior care home developer, has appointed Daniel Ahrendt as CEO. Ahrendt had been serving as interim CFO and will remain in that role.

Nuveen has agreed to acquire Schroders in a board-recommended cash transaction valued at £9.9 billion ($13.5 billion).

A survey by Future Space found improving sentiment in the U.K. industrial and logistics sector.