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Cityview has hired Gabi Franco as managing director of asset management.

Meta has selected BlackRock, together with Global Infrastructure Partners and HPS Investment Partners, both part of BlackRock, as its capital partner for the development of a data center campus under construction in El Paso, Texas, with total development costs expected to reach approximately $14 billion.

Mapletree Investments has launched its first China logistics fund denominated in Chinese renminbi (RMB), in partnership with China Life Capital.

Barings and the North Carolina Investment Authority (NCIA) have expanded their partnership representing $2.1 billion in committed capital for Barings’ real estate debt and capital solutions strategies.

Lone Star Funds announced that an affiliate of Lone Star Real Estate Fund VII successfully completed the acquisition of Premier Place, a 20-story class A office tower in Dallas.

Blackstone expects the emerging market for long-term ownership of stabilized data centers could eventually surpass $1 trillion as artificial intelligence drives demand for digital infrastructure, according to the firm’s second-quarter earnings call on July 23.

The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) has released second quarter 2026 results for the NCREIF Property Index.

CIM Group and Bryant Group Ventures have launched Affordable Housing Impact Fund (AHIF) and completed its latest closing with a capital commitment from KeyBank.

M&G Investments and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan have agreed to a joint venture to support the scaling of a multibillion-euro European collateralized loan obligation (CLO) platform.

Average prime European office yields remained broadly stable at 4.9 percent during second quarter 2026, according to Savills’ latest research.

Invesco Real Estate has acquired a class A logistics facility at Midlands Logistics Park in Corby on behalf of a German separate account mandate.

Refinancing activity is shaping today’s commercial real estate lending market, as borrowers reach the end of loan extensions and lenders bring previously troubled assets back to market. Although liquidity has returned, many deals are more complex than they were before rates rose, often requiring mezzanine debt, preferred equity or other sources of capital beyond a traditional first mortgage. Don MacKinnon, head of commercial real estate credit and a portfolio manager at Sound Point Capital, said the market is moving through a slow recovery, with enough capital on the sidelines to support price discovery. But in today’s environment, he said, the central question is not whether capital is available — it is whether the deal can be made to work.

ING Capital has provided a fully underwritten $268 million acquisition facility to EQT Real Estate's Core Plus Fund IV.

Renewed geopolitical tensions involving Iran have pushed oil prices higher, adding inflationary pressure and complicating the outlook for monetary policy, according to Ryan Severino, chief economist and head of U.S. research at BGO, in the latest edition of The Chief Economist.

Breakthrough Properties and Tishman Speyer have made a joint investment in a $90 million mezzanine bridge loan for Aperture Del Mar, a newly constructed, 538,000-square-foot class A life science campus in San Diego.

The United Kingdom’s commercial real estate sector is predicted to see £33 billion ($38 billion) of refinancing in 2026, which according to Robert Irving Burns (RIB), an independent real estate consultancy, will create a significant equity gap.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, through investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI), has acquired a portfolio of five French logistics assets.

MAG Capital Partners has completed the sale of more than 1.37 million square feet of long-term, net-leased industrial assets primarily acquired through its MAGCP Industrial Fund II, LP, in a six-property,  approximately $89 million transaction with Fundamental Income Properties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starwood Property Trust.

The New Mexico State Investment Council has announced a search for a real estate and real asset analyst based in the Alburquerque-Santa Fe area.

Core Spaces has closed on a four-property portfolio of purpose-built student housing communities totaling more than $300 million in value.