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Canyon Partners Real Estate and MG Properties (MGP) have acquired Shift Apartments, a multifamily building in the Downtown submarket of San Diego.

Clarion Partners Europe has acquired from Affinius Capital, in partnership with its wholly owned development subsidiary Mountpark, Mountpark Chartres 2 in Illiers-Combray in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

Starwood Capital Group has appointed John Gonnella as senior managing director and head of U.S. asset management, effective April 20.

AEW has published its latest European research report, Why and Where to Invest in European Real Estate, outlining where it sees the most attractive risk-adjusted opportunities across the region as 2026 begins.

While warnings about public debt levels may feel like background noise, real estate investors can no longer afford to tune them out. Federal debt held by the public now stands at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The last time it reached this level, the country had just finished financing World War II. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts it will surpass that historical peak by 2029 and continue rising thereafter.

Consumer behavior continues to fundamentally reshape retail real estate —  from who now controls demand to how physical space must earn relevance every day. Katie Grissom, global head of retail, Nuveen, in an interview with IREI, discusses the shift from brand-led retail to behavior-led ecosystems, explaining why habit, not loyalty, has become the dominant driver of performance. Drawing on real-world portfolio experience, Grissom explores why daily-needs formats are outperforming destination retail, how data and omnichannel strategies have strengthened physical stores and why convenience, utility and emotional payoff now define successful centers.

InfraVia has named Laëtitia Archambault as asset management director within its real estate team. 

The Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago (PABF) has committed $20 million TA Realty Value-Add Fund XIV.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board SWIB) has committed $410 million to real assets funds.

Asia Pacific real estate investment reached $201 billion in 2025, up 13.7 percent, hitting Knight Frank's 10 percent to 15 percent forecast range, as stabilizing rates drew capital back to quality assets.

Clarion Partners has acquired a seven-building, $592 million portfolio totaling 2.2 million square feet of newer class A and class B industrial assets strategically located in infill submarkets across Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, and Seattle. The portfolio is 100 percent leased to credit tenants.

Croatan Investments has launched its affordable housing platform, led by Nina-Lee Jewell Alhambra as managing partner.

Cityview and Stockbridge have completed Apollo – a 265-unit multifamily community in Los Angeles’ South Bay. Now leasing, Apollo is ideally located in a rapidly growing area of the South Bay near major aerospace, automotive and tech employers, including SpaceX, the Tesla Design Center and Ring.

Hines has acquired a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project in Móstoles, Madrid, currently under construction. The transaction, executed on behalf of the Hines European Real Estate Partners III (HEREP III) fund, marks the company’s entry into Madrid’s student accommodation segment and reinforces its commitment to the living sector in the Iberian Peninsula. This new asset joins Hines’ existing PBSA projects in Barcelona, Valencia and Porto.

Sei-Hyun Kwon has joined Blue Vista Capital Management as head of Asia Pacific region, marking the firm’s first formal on-the-ground presence in the region.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI) announced the company has entered into a definitive agreement with Athene Holding to sell the company’s entire approximately $9 billion commercial real estate loan portfolio for a purchase price based on 99.7 percent of total loan commitments, net of asset specific CECL reserves, except for two loans with a combined total principal balance of $146 million expected to be repaid prior to closing.

Berkadia announced the establishment of Berkadia special situations team, led by Kyle Stevenson.

L&G has appointed Tim Morris and Philipp Westermann, co-managing partners of Proprium Capital Partners, as global co-heads of real assets.

Griffin Capital has recently released a report titled, “Institutional Ownership of Single-Family Homes, Homeownership Affordability, and the Role of Build-to-Rent,” to give an evidence-based perspective on the Executive Order to restrict institutional purchases of single-family homes, and why housing affordability is primarily a supply-and-cost-of-ownership problem, not an investor-competition problem.

Damien Webb will join Brighter Super in April as CIO of the A$37 billion ($26 billion) superannuation fund following an extensive international recruitment search.