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Open Industrial and Heitman have formed a new partnership to recapitalize a 25-property, 105-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) portfolio.

Corporate AI investment is growing significantly and will not pull back, with companies planning to double their spending on the technology in 2026, accounting for about 1.7 percent of revenues, more than twice the increase for 2025.

The U.S. agricultural land market is shifting after years of steady growth. Although land values are still high historically, current signs indicate a more complex situation driven by local and regional factors rather than nationwide trends.

TwentyTwo Real Estate has completed, alongside Farallon Capital, of a €761 million ($883 million) investment that led to the creation of Isemia, a healthcare real estate company holding a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) portfolio of assets operated by emeis.

Vantage Data Centers has raised an additional £254 million (€293 million/$340 million) in securitized term notes.

Prop.com has launched a strategic partnership with property management and digitalization specialist Reos GmbH to develop one of the most advanced, data-driven micro-living real estate platforms in the DACH region — Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 

Harbert Management Corp. (HMC), an independent U.S.-based alternative asset manager focused on real assets, and DeA Capital Real Estate, a player in real estate investment management in Europe, through a joint venture have acquired an initial 73,000-square meter (785,765-square-foot) portfolio of business parks in France. The acquisition, completed by HMC’s European Real Estate platform (HERE), underlines HERE’s continued conviction in modern, well-located industrial formats that benefit from resilient occupier demand and constrained new supply.

ICG Real Estate (ICGRE), the real estate division of global alternative asset manager ICG, has announced it has sold an asset in Jenbach, Austria.

Valor Real Estate Partner has acquired, on behalf of its joint venture with QuadReal Property, a global real estate investment, development and operating company, a 10-acre site, which includes a 6,500 square meters (70,000 square feet) vacant cross-dock property, in Fleury-Mérogis, south of Paris.

CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT) has secured a second long-term agreement with a global hyperscaler for Tower 2 of CapitaLand DC Navi Mumbai in Airoli, Navi Mumbai.

Global real estate appears to be entering a more constructive phase, with opportunities concentrated in living, industrial, retail and select alternatives as markets begin a disciplined recovery, according to Hines in its 2026 global investment outlook, titled “Cleared for takeoff: A new flight path for real estate.”

TSCG has appointed George Fryer as CIO of TSCG Investors, the firm’s investment management platform.

Ed Clough has been promoted to the newly created role of head of real assets for Octopus Capital. He was previously head of real estate at the company.

Cloud Capital, a global data center investment management firm and joint venture partner Arcapita Group, a global alternative investment firm, have acquired a 21-megawatt data center in Minneapolis, with plans to expand its capacity to 31 megawatts.

CF Capital released a research-driven multifamily market overview, titled Lessons Shaping the Multifamily Market in 2026. The commercial real estate investment firm observes that the multifamily market is entering 2026 at a clear inflection point.

Waterfront redevelopment has become one of the most powerful opportunities, but success depends on effective public-private collaboration. In an exclusive interview with IREI, John Drew, founder and chairman of the Drew Co., a Boston-based real estate management and development company, discusses the challenges of transforming industrial sites into thriving urban districts. As cities and developers navigate shifting market conditions, infrastructure demands, and evolving patterns of how people live and work, Drew’s perspective helps frame the practical considerations, partnerships, and long-term planning involved in large-scale waterfront redevelopment.

According to the 2026 Investment Intentions Survey, published, by ANREV, INREV and PREA, institutional investors in Asia Pacific remain under-allocated to commercial real estate relative to their global peers, even as investors continue to look for opportunities to deploy capital.

SC Capital Partners, a Singapore-headquartered private equity real estate investment manager, has appointed Christopher Hur as managing director, investments, further strengthening the firm’s senior leadership and expanding its hospitality investment capabilities.

GLP Pte Ltd has appointed Angela Zhao as CEO of GLP China. The appointment forms part of GLP’s long-term succession planning and reflects its strategy to further strengthen integration and synergies across its new-economy platforms in China.

CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) has announce that the consortium comprising CICT, CapitaLand Development (CLD), and UOL consortium (UOL) (the Consortium), has been awarded the tender for the Hougang Central Government Land Sales (GLS) site for approximately S$1.5 billion or S$1,179 per square foot per plot ratio. This marks a significant milestone for CICT as it reinforces its foothold in its core market of Singapore, while expanding its retail footprint into Singapore’s northeast region.