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Leo Addimando, co-founder and managing partner of Alterra IOS, shared with IREI how a recent project opens new pathways for innovation in U.S. industrial real estate—particularly by aligning sustainability goals with the rising demand driven by infrastructure investment.

Elite UK REIT to acquire three freehold or virtual freehold government infrastructure and workspaces.

Paul Mouchakkaa has joined Crow Holdings’ investment management business Crow Holdings Capital (CHC) as a senior managing director.

Institutional investors are recognizing the European living sector’s potential as a cornerstone of diversified portfolios, offering stable and attractive long-term returns, according to CapitaLand Investment in its report Unlocking Resilient Returns: Navigating Europe’s Dynamic Living Sector.

WEAVE LIVING and KKR have signed a definitive agreement to acquire six properties in prime Tokyo locations.

Giacomo Greggio has joined Canyon Partners as a senior vice president on the EMEA capital formation team.

BKM Capital Partners and Kayne Anderson Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of Kayne Anderson, have acquired a five-property portfolio in Orlando, Fla.

Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) has announced a major enhancement to its IRE.IQ platform, a market intelligence database serving global real estate investment professionals including investors, managers, lenders, operators, consultants and investment managers.

Citymark Capital has named Beth Zayicek as COO.

Barings has provided a $548.5 million loan to refinance a portfolio of nine multifamily communities totaling more than 2,500 units across six states.

ARGO Real Estate has acquired the Harp Trading Estate in Trafford Park, Manchester, England, as part of its brown-to-green urban logistics strategy with Blue Coast Capital.

Barings, on behalf of a core European real estate strategy, has sold Capital House, a prime office in the City of London, for £169 million (€200 million/$228 million) to Daibiru, a Japanese investor and subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines.

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) has secured fresh capital commitments from new and existing institutional investors for its value-added lodging private fund, CapitaLand Ascott Residence Asia Fund II (CLARA II).

Funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate acquired a 46 percent joint-control stake in 1345 Avenue of the Americas — owned by Fisher Brothers — at a total valuation of $1.4 billion.

The build-to-rent single-family rental (BTR-SFR) sector is gaining momentum among institutional investors, driven by strong fundamentals such as housing affordability challenges, shifting demographics, migration to lower-density markets and limited existing institutional presence, says David Reynolds, president, investment management, for Mill Creek Residential, in an interview. He explains the appeal to both millennials and baby boomers, as well as its advantages in property management and standardization. Reynolds sees the BTR-SFR sector as a strategic investment opportunity that meets evolving renter preferences and fills a critical gap in the housing market.

Despite uncertainties about the economy, net absorption of office space was positive for a fourth consecutive quarter and demand is projected to continue to grow for the rest of the year, according to the NAIOP Research Foundation’s Office Space Demand Forecast.

JLL Capital Markets has arranged $231 million in financing for a 43-property industrial outdoor storage (IOS) portfolio totaling 293 acres across 13 states.

Oppidan Investment Co., a national property development firm headquartered in Excelsior, Minn., has broken ground on a 61,000-square-foot data center on Argenta Trail.

Evolving work patterns in the post-pandemic era, employees’ demands for a better workplace experience, the large regional supply pipeline and high vacancy, and the urgent need to enhance older properties to maintain their competitiveness are a few of the factors converging to drive a new era of office innovation in Asia Pacific, according to CBRE’s APAC Office Innovation: Perspectives for Landlords & Investors report.

GRESB, the global benchmark and strategic partner for resilient, high-performing investments across real assets and climate-critical industries, and Infrastructure Masons (iMasons), a global nonprofit association of digital infrastructure professionals, have formed a strategic partnership to develop the first global sustainability benchmark tailored to the needs and operations of data centers.