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In the search for real estate’s new frontiers, could the country of Georgia be a candidate for future institutional cross-border capital? Georgia’s residential real estate market is ripe for investment, but the country’s surrounding geopolitical woes and restricted domestic banking sector are holding back much-needed supply.

ESR has appointed Roy Teo as head of Southeast Asia, effective January 2027, to lead the group’s business and operations across the region.

Brookfield Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have announced the completion of their acquisition of LXP Industrial Trust in an all-cash transaction.

Northwind Group, a Manhattan-based real estate private equity firm and debt fund manager, has announced the origination of a $231 million first-mortgage construction loan for 675 Third Ave., a 32-story, 337,000-square-foot office building in Manhattan’s Midtown East neighborhood.

A joint venture worth more than £230 million ($309 million) between Central European developer and investor Penta Real Estate and aparthotel operator Staycity Group has been established to fund the delivery of a new 350-room aparthotel in London’s Farringdon district.

Madison International Realty has announced the appointment of Ariel Milo as co-head of equity capital markets (ECM). Based in New York, Milo will help lead the firm’s global equity capital markets efforts, focusing on institutional fundraising, capital formation and investor relations across Madison’s global platform and products.

While data shows that housing is structurally undersupplied nationally, market demand and fundamentals can be hyperlocal and vary widely from submarket to submarket. Residential real estate is also cyclical. In an interview with IREI, Richard Whiteley, co-president of IHP Capital Partners, shares how the firm uses periods of uncertainty to secure well-located land in high-growth markets and position its investments for the next cycle.

Lenders stopped granting extensions, and a Boston office tower that defaulted sold back to its owner at a 68 percent discount. Meanwhile, the investors who funded this year’s credit boom began to hesitate. Who refinances what comes due next? It’s almost impossible to spot trends reading the news as it unfolds. But when you look back at the prior week’s stories, patterns can start to emerge. Read this week’s Signal vs. Noise analysis for perspective on what the previous week’s news means for your organization and its investment activity.

Wafra, a New York–based global alternative investment manager, and Hunt Cos., a privately held real estate and investment company, have announced the launch of Strata Land Partners, a land finance platform focused on providing flexible capital solutions to public and private homebuilders and developers across the United States.

Jonathan Rose Cos., a mission-driven real estate investment and development firm, has announced its plans to extend its affordable housing investment and impact expertise into the United Kingdom.

Self-storage development is shifting toward suburban markets in several of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas, according to a new StorageCafe analysis of Yardi Matrix data.

The Roxborough Group closes on $109.4m acquisition of 246-unit apartment community in Fremont, Calif.

Scape co-founders Craig Carracher and Stephen Gaitanos have sold Hotel Hacienda, a 63-room hotel in Redfern, Sydney, for A$22 million ($15 million), according to Real Estate Source.

Northampton Capital Partners; ABR Capital Partners, an independent investment manager specializing in middle-market investments; and Biynah Industrial Partners (BIP) have announced a $200 million joint venture forming Transportation Related Infrastructure Platform (TRIP).

Defined contribution (DC) plans, the 401(k)s and similar accounts, now hold considerably more assets than the traditional defined benefit pensions they have gradually replaced. For most of their history, though, they have had little interest including private real estate in the investment programs they’ve been crafting for their participants.

As data center development accelerates to meet growing demand for AI and digital infrastructure, its impact is extending beyond the industrial and technology sectors. For multifamily investors, the expansion is introducing new considerations around housing supply, utility costs and property-level fundamentals. In an interview with IREI, Yisroel Berg, CIO of multifamily at Harbor Group International, discusses how data center development is becoming part of multifamily investment underwriting, the opportunities and risks emerging in markets with significant data center activity and whether the AI buildout is beginning to influence capital-allocation decisions.

Asia Pacific commercial real estate investment reached $65.6 billion in third quarter 2026, up 17.9 percent quarter over quarter and 7.3 percent year over year, making it the second-strongest quarter on record, according to Knight Frank.

Real estate investment veterans Vincent DiSalvo and Michael Gallagher have launched Contrada, a U.S. housing investment manager focused on special situations, with a strategic anchor investment from a multigenerational New York development firm.

Simon Property Group has entered into an agreement to acquire University Village, an open-air retail center in Seattle.

Asia-focused private equity firm PAG has agreed to acquire a 51.016 percent stake in Evergrande Property Services Group, the property management arm of China Evergrande Group, for HK$4.03 billion ($514 million), according to Reuters.