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Avison Young has released its 2026 U.S. Outlook, revealing a significant uptick in optimism among the firm’s real estate professionals.

SC Capital Partners Group (SCCP) has commenced construction of a new best-in-class data center in Osaka with 100 megawatts of allocated power.

Savills has acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based Alpina Holdings. 

LaSalle Investment Management has promoted Brad Gries to global CEO and Tim Kessler to president, both effective Jan. 1, 2026. Current global CEO Mark Gabbay will transition his role to executive chairman following a successful tenure that included navigating the platform through the global pandemic and the current real estate cycle. 

Pan-European logistics real estate specialist Verdion has plans for iPort Zealand, a €1 billion ($1.17 billion) business hub for Danish logistics, industry and business to capitalize on the completion of the major Fehmarnbelt infrastructure project.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management and MorningStar Senior Living have announced that investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) have acquired a MorningStar senior housing portfolio from Kayne Anderson Real Estate for $305 million.

The Teacher Retirement System (TRS) of Texas has committed $125 million to Asana Partners Fund IV, according to investment communications.

Crescent Communities and Heitman have formed a second joint venture to invest in Crescent Communities’ single-family build-to-rent platform across key strategic growth markets.

Berkadia has secured equity and construction financing for a new $144 million mixed-use residential community located at 3200 W. Moore Street in Richmond, Va.

EQT Real Estate II Fund, a fund managed by EQT, has sold a portfolio of 33 Swedish light industrial assets to Brookfield, through its private Real Estate Solutions strategy, as well as selling an individual property to ICA Fastigheter.

Wint, a provider of water management solutions for the built environment, has received a strategic investment from Grosvenor.

Sculptor Capital Management has held a final close for its Sculptor Real Estate Fund V with $4.6 billion in commitments.

The premium hotel market in China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) delivered a solid performance in the third quarter of the year. according to JLL.

REIT fundamentals are stabilizing and transaction markets are beginning to reset. In an interview with IREI, Iman Brivanlou, portfolio manager of the TCW Relative Value and Real Estate equity strategies, which invests exclusively through listed REITs and real estate-related companies, discusses the comparative advantages of public REITs over private real estate, the shifting dynamics driving institutional allocations, and why market conditions heading into 2026 may favor listed vehicles as price discovery returns to private markets. He also shares his 12-month outlook for the REIT sector, emphasizing improving inflation trends, healthier balance sheets, and a widening valuation gap that he believes could position public REITs for stronger performance.

The latest edition of BGO’s The Chief Economist reviews global economic conditions as 2025 concludes and outlines expectations for commercial real estate in 2026.

Stonepeak has purchased a portfolio of three purpose-built student housing assets with approximately 2,300 beds in partnership with Cardinal Group.

QuadReal Property Group has formed a strategic partnership with LaSalle Investment Management that will recapitalize a $495 million portfolio within QuadReal’s direct U.S. industrial platform.

In a sponsored report published in the January issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Ankur Gupta, head of Asia Pacific and Middle East for Brookfield’s Real Estate Group, explains how sustained demand, structural undersupply and rising liquidity are converging to propel India’s real estate market into what could turn out to be “one of the largest real estate buildouts of the century.”

Cannon Hill Capital Partners, a vertically integrated real estate firm, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with TriPost Capital Partners.

Europe has seen the strongest retail rent growth across the globe, according to CBRE.