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a&o Hostels has purchased vacant office building in Berlin.

LaSalle Investment Management has appointed Peter Sibilia as head of U.S. transactions.

There is continued expansion across the U.S. and strong demand for credible, measurable, performance-based sustainability standards, according to BREEAM, in its recently released 2025 report.

Grupo Empresas Matutes has reached an agreement with Azora to acquire its 75 percent stake in the joint venture created in 2019, which includes three five-star hotel assets located in strategic Mediterranean destinations: Ibiza (Spain) and Sicily (Italy).

Principal Asset Management has appointed Guido Beddig as managing director, heading the asset management team in Europe. In this role he will strategically and operationally develop Principal Asset Management's European platform focusing on real estate.

Larissa Herczeg, founder and managing partner, 1 Seed Partners, recently participated in a special feature highlighting accomplished women in the real estate sector for the Institutional Real Estate Americas publication. She shared her perspectives on leadership, investing and career evolution. While an excerpt of that interview appeared in the print magazine, the entire conversation, lightly edited, appears below.

Public Storage and Welltower have formed a strategic data science partnership bringing together Welltower’s industry-leading data science-driven capital allocation expertise and Public Storage’s scaled operational, pricing and customer analytics capabilities.

Two hotels in Vietnam — PARKROYAL Saigon and Hotel Perle D’Orient Cat Ba — have been sold in separate transactions totaling $53.7 million.

Hines has appointed Tatiana Tezel as fund manager for Hines European Property Partners (HEPP), the firm’s flagship European core-plus fund.

Kennedy Wilson has announced its U.K. single-family rental housing joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has reached a significant milestone, deploying a further £300 million ($401.88 million) to scale the platform to approximately 2,000 homes across the United Kingdom.

Stonepeak has made an investment in Aura Holdings.

The fundraising landscape for industrial and logistics strategies is entering a new phase as capital markets begin to normalize and investor confidence gradually returns. While the sector has demonstrated resilience, capital allocation is becoming more selective, with greater emphasis on platform capabilities, specialization and execution. Aasif Bade, founder and CEO, Ambrose, in an interview with IREI, examines the key drivers of investor demand and how the sector is evolving alongside changes in global supply chains and manufacturing trends.

Investor alignment in private real estate has always been a delicate balancing act. Fees, governance structures and incentive mechanisms are designed to bind limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs) together over long investment horizons, yet few market participants would argue that the system is perfectly aligned. Instead, alignment is widely viewed as imperfect but functional, tested most severely when markets turn and performance disappoints.

Institutional real estate has always been anchored in fundamentals — location, supply and demand, tenant credit, cap rates,  and long-term capital flows. Those first principles have not changed.

In a sponsored report published in the April issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Annie Trucco, senior associate, investment research, makes a strong case for self-storage, pointing to its resilience and outperformance during recessions, its favorable fundamentals, and the characteristics that make it much less sensitive to inflation than other sectors.

Alterra IOS has received a passive, minority investment from Almanac, the private real estate arm of Neuberger.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and Equinix have entered into a joint agreement to purchase atNorth, a Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit data center provider, from Partners Group.

Adrian Lee has re joined AEW Capital Management as head of transactions – Asia, based in Singapore.

Hines has acquired 83 Avenue Marceau, a prime office and mixed-use asset in Paris’ 8th arrondissement, from Colonial SFL.

Union Investment has sold Copyright Building in London to Ares Real Estate funds.