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Union Investment has sold Copyright Building in London to Ares Real Estate funds.

Henderson Park and Eurofund Group have agreed the sale of the Islazul shopping center in Madrid to Castellana Properties.

Energy availability and security is fast becoming a defining factor in commercial real estate decision-making, with critical implications for project viability, property values and building performance. JLL’s new research, Where energy meets property, reveals how today’s power crunch is reshaping the industry and the challenges and opportunities for owners, developers and occupiers across all major sectors.

A growing divergence in consumer spending is splitting the U.S. grocery market, with value-focused and premium fresh-format grocers rapidly gaining momentum and foot traffic, according to JLL’s 2026 Grocery Tracker report. The report finds this market bifurcation is creating clear winners among grocery anchored sites/centers, driving performance for the real estate they occupy. 

Harrison Street Asset Management (HSAM) has sold two data center campuses located in Maryland.

Consumer behavior is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. The shift away from brand loyalty toward habit-driven consumption is often attributed to generational preferences or digital disruption, but the reality is more structural. Three converging forces — time scarcity among dual-income households, a K-shaped economy that rewards convenience and the geographic reorientation of daily life toward suburban and exurban communities — are fundamentally reshaping how consumers spend, where they shop and what kinds of retail real estate outperform.

In a sponsored Q&A published in the March issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Akira Kosugi, managing director and head of Japan at Greystar, discusses the company’s analytical outlook on Japan’s multifamily market, with specific attention to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka, and the demographic shifts underpinning resilient demand and a strong case for long-term growth.

In a sponsored report published in the March issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Actis’ Brian Chinappi, global head of real estate and data centers, and Barry Lynch, head of operations, infrastructure, write about how the transformation of data centres into core economic infrastructure opens up opportunities that require exacting technical, operational and sustainability expertise for success, as well as an integrated approach that accounts for both real estate dynamics and infrastructural demands.

Invesco has launched its Invesco Core Plus Real Estate Trust, a collective investment trust (CIT) exclusively designed to provide defined contribution (DC) plans access to private real estate through a daily valued structure purpose-built for retirement portfolios.

An affiliate of Lone Star Real Estate Fund VII has reached an agreement to acquire 90 Whitfield St. in London from Derwent London.

Azora has acquired a student residence in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, from a joint venture formed by LaSalle Investment Management and Urbania.

Octopus Capital has published a new report, “Shaping the Future of Care in Spain,” examining the country’s widening mismatch between demographic demand and care home provision, and drawing on demographic analysis, market data and insights from the United Kingdom’s more established care market to explore the scale of undersupply and the role of long-term institutional capital. 

ESR has entered India’s data center market with a hyperscale-ready, multi-story data center in Rabale, Mumbai, the country’s largest and fastest-growing data center micro-market.

GTIS Partners announced that Santander Brasil will relocate its corporate headquarters to Campus JK, the firm’s development currently under construction, in the second half of 2028.

Machine Investment Group (MIG), a real estate investment platform focused on opportunistic, distressed and special situations across the United States, announced that Charlie Leonard has joined the firm as partner, investments and capital formation.

American Express will build a new, state-of-the-art global headquarters at 2 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.

AI-driven forecasting has followed a “gradually and then suddenly” trajectory, where years of incremental progress have recently accelerated with the rise of large language models and increased attention, according to Ryan Severino, chief economist with BGO, in his latest post.

Powered land refers to sites with secured or highly probable access to electricity, solving the power constraint before development begins. These assets are attracting strong investor interest due to their scarcity and importance in supporting AI, data centers and electrification. As demand for power-intensive infrastructure grows, access to electricity — not construction — has become the key bottleneck shaping development.

This is the third year of our series featuring interviews with women in the real estate industry. The women highlighted come from diverse roles and represent a wide range of ages, showcasing the variety of opportunities within the industry. These inspiring professionals highlight the nontechnical skills, such as communication, curiosity, adaptability and people awareness, that they view as critical to effectiveness. They describe how leadership matures over time, shifting away from individual execution toward developing people and building stronger organizations. They also reflect on how their definitions of success have evolved, placing greater value on trust, long-term impact and responsible stewardship of capital and people.

Hines Research has identified Asia as a significant contributor to global real estate growth in the current real estate cycle. This points to potentially steadier fundamentals, improving liquidity conditions and stabilization in various markets.