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There is still a compelling argument to be made for investing in real estate debt, according to Kirloes Gerges, managing director, portfolio management, with Principal Asset Management.

Today’s market is choppy, but choppy isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

The two main advantages of a core-plus real estate investment strategy today are flexibility and maintaining a “young” portfolio.

More women are rising to top leadership roles in the real estate investment arena.

Europe’s real estate investment market is seeing signs of progress and improvement from the stagnancy the pandemic engendered.

Has price discovery improved in the real estate sectors? What is likely to happen if inflation stays relatively high?

Low rates of social interaction have led to a sharp increase in loneliness, which is changing what tenants are looking for in a residential property.

According to a report titled, “Navigating growth: Underlying trends are creating attractive opportunities in the European life sciences real estate market,” by Olaf Margeirsson, real estate research and strategy – Europe, UBS Asset Management, Real Estate & Private Markets, which was published in the September issue of Institutional Real Estate Europe.

Colliers has found the Asia Pacific region was home to four of the top 10 global cross-border capital sources in the first half of 2024 – Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and China.

Investcorp has made three industrial acquisitions totaling approximately 1.5 million square feet for a gross transaction cost of approximately $300 million.

Savills Investment Management has acquired a project development with residential and food retail space near Karlsruhe, Germany.

Employers worldwide may have to pay workers an extra 5 percent to entice them back to the office full time, according to a series of Bloomberg intelligence surveys.

Invesco Real Estate has appointed Heike Martin as head of investments for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

According to JLL, the potential for sustained growth in Thailand’s EV industry, backed by government policies and foreign investment, will create at addressable real estate market of least $6.5 billion by 2030, to support the country’s emergence as a regional manufacturing and innovation leader in the space.   

M&G has extended a sizeable commercial real estate loan secured against a multi-million pound portfolio of super-prime central London retail assets in Mayfair, including the Gucci store at 144/146 New Bond Street and a significant portion of retail and residential assets on St Johns Wood High Street.

The Australian farmland total annualized return since inception, from March 31, 2015 to June 30, 2024, was 10.61 percent with contributions from income return of 5.05 percent and capital growth of 5.39 percent, according to the latest quarterly Australian Farmland Index Second Quarter 2024 compiled by the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV).

Barings, on behalf of a strategy to acquire core European real estate, has completed the acquisition of an office-led mixed-use site in Paris’ 8th Arrondissement from an asset manager on behalf of a life insurance company.

CapRock Partners has acquired a 32.5-acre site in Sunnyvale, Texas, part of the East Dallas industrial real estate submarket, for the future development of a new class A industrial park.

Madison Realty Capital has held a final close of Madison Realty Capital Debt Fund VI LP (Fund VI), raising $2.04 billion in equity commitments.

Oxford Economics has launched its Megatrend Resilience Index for Commercial Real Estate.