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Walker & Dunlop has completed a $155 million refinancing deal for The Lexington Hotel.

Crescent Communities, Heitman, and a state pension fund separate account have formed a joint venture to invest in the HARMON by Crescent Communities single-family build-to-rent platform

Starwood Capital Group, Crescent Real Estate and High Street Real Estate Partners have completed the sale of the 1 Hotel and Embassy Suites in Nashville, Tenn., to Host Hotels and Resorts, a lodging REIT and owner of luxury and upper-upscale hotels.

Blackbrook has plans to merge with the privately held investment firm Cain International.

Qantas Super has plans to invest A$200 million to agriculture investor goFARM.

As part of its C Change program, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Europe, together with sustainability analytics specialist Synergetic, are commencing the development of a new interactive tool that will enable the real estate industry to integrate climate transition into the financial models at the heart of investment decision making. 

A majority of occupiers in India believe that at least half of their office portfolio should be powered by renewable sources by 2030 to align with broader net zero carbon (NZC) goals.

Nearly 4 in 10 (37 percent) leaders reported that their organizations were only slightly or not at all prepared to address talent concerns related to Generative AI adoption.

Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Investments and a leading specialist in U.K. real estate investment and lending, has provided a commercial loan to complete the purchase of a site located in Deptford, London.

A U.S.-Korean development consortium between Hines and National Pension Service of Korea, has received approval for the development of trio of towers at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge, 18 Blackfriars Road, in London.

Real estate development company LVXP has announced plans to deliver a new experiential mixed-use development on the Las Vegas Strip.

Oxford Economics’ global relative return index (RRI) signals that risk-adjusted investment opportunities in commercial real estate should start to emerge this year before becoming more widespread in 2025. The expected returns move higher than required returns, pushing the global all-property index above the 50 mark.

The current downturn in the U.S. real estate industry, largely catalyzed by higher interest rates and shifts in demand following the COVID-19 pandemic, creates opportunities to generate enhanced value but will require executing a focused, selective, and hands-on strategy and partnering with a manager with experience across periods of dislocation.

In the past year and a half, AI awareness has rocketed, with thousands of media stories about it, trillions of dollars accumulated because of it, and doomsayers warning about the end of the world as we know it. Amid this cacophony, companies around the world have been seeking to integrate AI to enhance and expedite their operations.

Are we entering a distressed environment for investing? Where will the distress occur, and how do we capitalize on the opportunity?

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.