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The answer to “Should I rent or buy?” depends almost entirely on where you live and how long you plan to stay, according to a new Zillow Rent vs. Buy analysis.

While rents have increased by an average of 13 percent for prime offices globally since 2020, the office delivery pipeline to the end of 2027 is now compressed, especially in the United States and Europe where it is now barely 8.9 million square foot in the former and 24.2 million square feet in the latter, according to Savills. In its Impacts thought leadership program, launched today 4 June, Savills says that cost inflation, labor shortages, elevated borrowing costs and increased regulation are undermining the viability of new projects, alongside economic and geopolitical uncertainty weighing on consumer and investor confidence.

Commercial real estate (CRE) investment conditions have improved from the market’s recent reset, but the current environment is not yet strong enough to match the best-performing vintages of the past 25 years, according to Ryan Severino, chief economist and head of research at BGO, in his recent report.

Total leasing activity across Europe’s logistics market reached 6.58 million square meters (71 million square feet) in first quarter 2026.

As industrial demand in Phoenix evolves, Bob O’Neill, executive vice president, CapRock Partners, discusses how the market is reshaping, from the rise of advanced manufacturing to the growing influence of reshoring and supply chain diversification. He addresses how large-scale corporate investments are driving new ecosystems of users and creating more complex, technology-oriented demand profiles across the region.

Traditional commercial real estate investors are significantly widening their investment universe to encompass real assets, with infrastructure – particularly energy infrastructure – moving to the forefront of capital deployment strategies, according to new research from Knight Frank.

For many investment managers, the annual general meeting (AGM) still feels like a legacy obligation: a required checkpoint on the calendar, a dense deck, a long morning, a polite lunch and a collective exhale once the last LP has left the room.

Despite persistent headwinds from rising interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty, the world's largest real estate investment managers continue to grow. The firms featured in Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s “2026 IRE.IQ Real Estate Managers Guide” collectively oversee more than $5.8 trillion in real estate assets under management — with the top 50 firms alone accounting for more than $4.8 trillion, up from $4.4 trillion the prior year.

AEW has forecasted that the long-term recovery in Europe’s prime logistics sector will remain on track despite short-term cost pressures tied to the conflict in the Middle East.

Global real estate investment turnover of $230 billion in first quarter 2026 represented a 5 percent decline on a sequential basis, according to Savills in its latest Quarterly Capital Markets Report, but according to the international real estate adviser, activity could see a robust rebound, with pending deals data indicating an 18 percent year-over-year rise in deals in the second quarter, assuming the market consensus is correct on a relatively swift de-escalation of events in the Middle East.

In March 2026, IREI began interviewing people across 11 different property types to share their insights and outlooks on asset management in a video series titled Asset Management In Focus.

Real estate firms are entering a new phase of PropTech adoption as artificial intelligence makes it possible to connect fragmented software systems across portfolios, according to a recent report by Prasan Kale, co-founder and CEO of Outcome.

A new survey by RCLCO Fund Advisors reveals a striking disconnect between how institutional investors and fund managers experience real estate co-investment.

Cushman & Wakefield’s analysis of 135 global logistics markets in its Waypoint 2026 report indicates the proportion experiencing tenant-favorable conditions is expected to fall from 52 percent in 2026 to 33 percent by 2029 as vacancy tightens and supply remains constrained.

In the institutional investment world, disclosure has never been more abundant. Private placement memoranda swell by the year. Risk factor sections stretch for dozens of pages. Side letters, ESG appendices and regulatory addenda multiply. On paper, everything is disclosed. And yet, recent cycles have made one uncomfortable truth increasingly hard to ignore: Disclosure, even when exhaustive, is not the same thing as risk management.

Europe remains the world’s most attractive retail region, according to the latest Global Retail Attractiveness Index compiled by Union Investment and NIQ-GfK.

As traditional banks retrench from residential lending, Maksim Stavinsky, co-founder and CEO of Roc360, in an exclusive interview, discusses how borrower demand is evolving and where private credit is stepping in to fill critical financing gaps.

In the fifth installment of this series, Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., interviewed Steven DeFrancis, CEO at Cortland. DeFrancis explained Cortland's integrated approach to asset management, where the investments team handles both acquisition and execution rather than handing off to separate teams.

Hong Kong’s office fit-out costs recorded a 1.5 percent annual growth, driven mainly by rising metal material costs due to tariffs. JLL’s newly published Asia Pacific Office Fit-Out Costs Guide showed that office fit-out costs continue to rise across many cities in Asia Pacific, driven by labor constraints, material pricing pressures, and the growing complexity of mechanical, electrical and technology systems.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will not destroy U.K. office demand but will reshape the office sector once again as companies design workspaces to match AI-enabled business practices.