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After four years of unprecedented market turbulence, U.S. life sciences real estate sector supply is finally contracting with demand growing across top markets. JLL’s 2026 U.S. Lab Property Report reveals that lab availability has dropped by about 2 million square feet since mid-2025, which included the largest quarterly decline in a decade, signaling the market has bottomed out and begun its recovery. However, the path forward remains long, with substantial oversupply persisting and rental rates facing continued downward pressure through the end of the decade.

Longpoint Partners plans to expand into Germany and the Netherlands, extending its infill industrial strategy into two of Europe’s most supply-constrained logistics markets.

ACORE CAPITAL has appointed Cynthia Holahan as chief marketing officer.

Macquarie Asset Management has appointed Bob Restrick as senior adviser to expand the firm’s U.S. real estate private credit platform.

Canyon Partners Real Estate has expanded its real estate platform amid growing activity across its lending and opportunistic investment businesses.

Broadcom, a global technology firm that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, has established the AI XPV Platform.

Newmark Group has arranged a £325 million ($434 million) loan to refinance 30 Fenchurch St. on behalf of private real estate funds managed by Brookfield.

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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) committed $460 million to real estate funds in May, according to investment correspondence.

Newmark has arranged a $975 million balance sheet financing for Project Helios, a newly constructed, state-of-the-art data center in northern Virginia, a critical hub for internet traffic and network infrastructure.

Northwind Group, a Manhattan-based real estate private equity firm and debt fund manager, announced the origination of a $132 million first-mortgage acquisition loan secured by 333 S. Grand Ave., a 55-story, class A office tower totaling over 1.4 million rentable square feet and approximately 1,700 parking spaces in the Bunker Hill submarket of Downtown Los Angeles.

Catalyst Investment Partners, a real estate investment firm that acquires and operates flexible, low-coverage industrial outdoor storage (IOS) properties in high-barrier-to-entry urban infill markets in the United States, announced that it secured $281 million in separate financings originated by Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (BREDS) and institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management on behalf of Catalyst IOS Fund II. The J.P. Morgan Asset Management financing represents its first loan secured by a fully dedicated IOS portfolio.

Kayne Anderson Real Estate has entered into an agreement to recapitalize a class A senior housing portfolio in partnership with existing owner-operator Tradition Senior Living (TSL), an owner, developer and operator of luxury senior living communities across Texas.

As Chinese companies expand globally at an unprecedented pace, corporate real estate strategy has emerged as a critical pillar supporting their international growth. Despite the acceleration of China-based companies going global, many find consistent challenges when implementing commercial real estate strategies to support ambitious growth plans, according to JLL.

AirTrunk has plans to invest more than INR 3 trillion ($30 billion) in India by 2030 in support of digital infrastructure capacity, positioning the country as a cornerstone of AirTrunk’s global growth strategy and one of the company’s most significant long-term investment markets.

In the seventh installment of this series, Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., interviewed Bill Abramowitz, a portfolio manager at Nuveen Real Estate, focusing on asset management practices in healthcare and medical office properties.

Commercial real estate dealmaking has become more selective and more concentrated, with capital flowing to a narrower set of opportunities. Vaibhav Gujral, senior partner at McKinsey & Co., says that while overall deal volume has remained relatively stable, average transaction sizes have increased and investors are being much more deliberate about the deals they pursue. Gujral co-wrote the firm’s report, Real Estate Builds on New Terrain, which concluded real estate deal values rose 10 percent in 2025, reaching $842 billion, though overall transaction count remained flat.

Nippon Life Insurance Company has entered into a memorandum of understanding for a comprehensive strategic partnership with Blackstone to provide investment management services in the private credit and real estate sectors.

Greenberg Gibbons has launched its second private equity real estate fund.

Axis, a last-mile logistics platform founded by Pictet Alternative Advisors and Stoneweg, has acquired another high-quality asset at Engelandlaan 3, Maastricht Airport in the Netherlands.