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Green leases are becoming increasingly popular among among landlords and tenants to ensure assets are being sustainably developed and operated.

Both the U.S. and the European date center markets are benefiting from strong fundamentals — low vacancy, rising rates, strong tenant demand. But there are some nuanced differences.

Asia offers real estate investors opportunities that are not as readily available in the more developed and institutional U.S. and European markets.

Green leases — rental contracts containing extra clauses related to the environmental performance of a building — are on the rise in Europe.

As society and financial conditions continue to change in Europe, alternatives are becoming mainstays for institutional investors, writes Lewis Dayton.

Investors’ embrace of real estate was on display in the April release of the 2024 Institutional Investors Real Estate Trends report, which collects the results of Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s Annual Investor Survey (now in its 28th year) and assesses institutional investors’ asset allocations, risk and return assumptions, expected capital flows, and real estate investment strategies for the coming year.

Transactions in once-reliable sectors such as office have slowed to a crawl, faced with a structural shift in use, and many assets have not performed as predicted in a world of higher borrowing costs. So, investors are faced with a quandary: hold on to underwhelming fund positions or physical assets, with returns eaten away by rising interest rates, or sell when values, rents and deal flow are down.

Jeffrey Shuster has been named president of LaSalle Value Partners U.S. (LVP US).

Investors, developers and providers are looking to significantly increase their presence in the UK healthcare sector, according to CBRE’s 2024 UK Healthcare Sentiment Survey.

Invesco Real Estate and Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) have formed a partnership to develop a class A logistics facility at CORE Temnitzpark.

Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a portfolio of Carrefour supermarkets in France through a sale-leaseback transaction (SLB) for a total purchase price of €75.3 million ($80.7 million).

The Riverside Co. has announced that its affiliate has signed a definitive agreement to acquire The Townsend Group from Aon.

There will be a pick-up in transactions, according to Deloitte in its outlook report.

Hong Kong’s overall class A office market recorded a positive net absorption of 137,000 square feet in March.

PGIM Real Estate has acquired a property north of Munich, suitable for data center development, on behalf of its closed-end value-added fund European Value Partners (EVP) II.

A real estate fund managed by Kennedy Wilson has partnered with Haseko Corporation to acquire The Farmstead and Villas at 28th Street communities in Vancouver, Wash.

As part of the reorganization of Generali Real Estate S.p.A., led by CEO Aldo Mazzocco, Alberto Agazzi has been promoted to a new role focused on developing the company’s growth in global markets (United Kingdom, United States and Asia Pacific).

Griffin Capital has appointed Paul DeMartini to serve as CIO.

CPI PROPERTY GROUP has signed a commitment agreement with Sona Asset Management (U.K.) LLP regarding a proposed equity investment of €250 million ($268 million) in Poland.

Azora, the Madrid-based European real estate investment manager, has completed the acquisition of two hostels located in Dublin and Barcelona on behalf of its Azora European Hotel and Lodging Fund (AEHL) through a transaction with a fund managed by BlackRock.