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Australia is the world’s leading lithium producer and has significant copper, nickel and cobalt reserves, making it an important exporter of energy-transition resources.

“It’s an exhilarating time, prospectively, to be investing in real estate,” says Al Rabil, CEO of Kayne Anderson and CEO and co-founder of Kayne Anderson Real Estate.

A smart-sector strategy is a good way to approach the current real estate marketplace with its “an increasing pipeline of stress and distress,” explains Walton Street Capital’s co-founder and managing principal, Jeff Quicksilver.

What property owners need to meet their decarbonisation targets and what information many tenants are prepared and able to hand over to them remain two quite distinct things.

When assessing the existing ESG rules set out in the EU disclosure and taxonomy regulation for the real estate sector, writes Jochen Schenk, chief executive officer and chair of the board at Real I.S., one particular question springs to mind: Does the current regulatory framework actually work?

If economic trends are now harder to predict, as the G30 report argues, similar observations could be made about real estate markets. The effect of COVID-19 in real estate markets is probably more long-lasting and profound than the legacy of the global financial crisis.

As 2024 unfolds, the prospects for Asia Pacific commercial real estate are better than at any time since the COVID-19 pandemic seized the global stage in 2019. After the market-warping lockdowns and business restrictions of the pandemic era, property investors in Asia Pacific then faced rounds of inflation-fighting rate hikes by major global and most regional central banks.

The past two years have been tough for public REIT stock prices, both on an absolute basis and relative to other equities, as rising interest rates created headwinds for real estate.

By normal standards, property deals just aren’t getting done. There’s a gap in expectation between what sellers expect to get and what buyers are willing to pay. Yet valuations are slipping in the office and retail sectors in particular, and the feeling is they have farther yet to fall.

Anne Valentine Andrews has announced her departure from BlackRock after leading its real assets group for nearly a decade.

Partners Group, acting on behalf of its clients, and Realterm have formed a transportation logistics real estate joint venture with its first acquisition in Australia.

Funds controlled by Loci Capital Op Fund GP, LLC, an affiliate of Loci Capital Group, a private real estate fund manager, has sold Pomelo Park Apartments, a 240-unit garden style apartment community in the Lee Vista / Narcoossee submarket of Southeast Orlando, Fla.

Croatan Investments, a rental housing investment manager for private wealth and institutional capital, has promoted Ben Bartlett to COO.

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) has formed a RMB2.4 billion (S$452 million, $337 million) joint venture with AIA Life Insurance (AIA), to recapitalize Capital Square Beijing, a class-A office building in Beijing.

Hong Kong’s High Court on Monday, Jan. 29, issued a wind-up order for the liquidation of property developer China Evergrande Group.

The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System’s Defined Benefit Fund (DB Fund) generated an 11.1 percent return during 2023, outperforming its 6.9 percent benchmark.

Barings, on behalf of its second real estate European value-add fund (BREEVA II), has acquired a plot of land in a prime location near Lisbon.

GLP Capital Partners (GCP) has sold 12 logistics assets.

Trammell Crow Company (TCC) has signed two transactions with AEW.

Australia’s Future Fund has reported that it generated an eight percent return during 2023, slightly underperforming its benchmark of 8.4 percent.