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Eagle Rock, a vertically integrated real estate investment and management firm, has held a final close for Eagle Rock Multifamily Fund VI LLC (Fund VI).

In a sponsored interview published in the November issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Principal Asset Management’s Casey Miller, managing director of U.S. data centers, and Paul Lewis, managing director of European data centers, about how AI is affecting the data center investment landscape in the United States and Europe.

In a sponsored interview published in the November issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Martha Kelley, a managing director at Bain Capital Real Estate, and Brian Harper, founder and managing partner of 11North Partners, discussed their strategic partnership to invest in open-air retail real estate.

In a sponsored report published in the November issues of Institutional Real Estate Americas and Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Clarion Partners argues defensive, income-oriented strategies — such as European net lease — can be especially interesting for non-European investors seeking stability, yield and geographic diversification.

The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) released third quarter 2025 results for the NCREIF Fund Index – Open-end Diversified Core Equity (NFI-ODCE). The NFI-ODCE consists of 25 funds totaling $277 billion of gross real estate assets and $228.2 billion of net real estate assets.

The New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) has committed $150 million to Starwood Capital alongside a $1.5 billion recommendation of its 2026 real estate pacing plan, according to meeting materials from Oct. 30.

Family offices are expanding the number of offices they have around the world as family members are increasingly moving to new countries, according to new global research from Ocorian, a global provider of services for asset managers and owners, including private client, fund administration, capital markets, corporate and regulatory solutions.

Aware Super has appointed Simon Warner to CIO, effective Dec. 1.

Jurong Island, the cornerstone of Singapore’s energy and chemicals (E&C) industry, is pivoting to serve growing demand for decarbonization solutions, specialty chemicals, sustainable materials, circular feedstocks and new energies.

CBRE has launched its Q3 2025 Asia Pacific Cap Rate Survey report, finding appetite for real estate investment has strengthened across Asia Pacific and investment volumes have risen 20 percent year-over-year in the first three quarters of 2025, led by Korea and Japan.

Global real estate investment manager BGO has raised $260 million in its Data Center Co-Investment fundraise, which was established in connection to its U.S. Industrial Strategies I fund. Combined with this co-investment, the inaugural fundraise for the firm’s closed-end strategy totaled approximately $800 million, with a projected gross asset value of $2.4 billion.

Industrial real estate isn’t moving in one direction anymore. While big-box industrial is dealing with rising vacancies and soft demand, small-bay industrial is outperforming across several metrics. That’s the central takeaway from the newly released Q3 2025 Light Industrial Market Update by BKM Capital Partners (BKM), a vertically integrated institutional fund manager specializing in multi-tenant light industrial real estate.

Sagard Real Estate has acquired a 260,989-square-foot industrial facility in San Leandro, Calif., within the Oakland–East Bay industrial corridor.

Bridge Investment Group Holdings has completed fundraising for Bridge Debt Strategies Fund V (BDS V), raising $2.15 billion in equity commitments.

Aware Super’s property arm, Aware Real Estate, has agreed to buy The Barracks precinct in Brisbane for about A$150 million ($97.7 million).

Mapletree Investments has plans for its new 123,000-square-meter (1.3 million-square-foot) flagship commercial project in Singapore’s Greater Southern Waterfront (GSW).

Europe’s manufacturing sector is entering a new phase of high-tech expansion, according to Knight Frank’s European Manufacturing Report. The report states predicted growth of 14.7 percent over the next 10 years is forecast to contribute an additional €318 billion ($368 billion) to the euro zone economy by 2035, bringing the total value of the sector to €2.84 trillion ($3.3 trillion).

Barchester Healthcare has sold to Welltower for £5.2 billion ($6.8 billion). Knight Frank advised Barchester Healthcare on the sale. 

Europe’s commercial real estate transaction market was muted in the third quarter as economic uncertainty prevented momentum to build in investment flows, MSCI’s latest quarterly Europe Capital Trends report showed.

Retail assets are being reimagined. Businesses are “crossbreeding” — combining retail space with last-mile logistics facilities, in the same plot of land, such as a shopping centre.