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Petraville Asset Management has acquired City Center Tower, an office property in Seoul’s central business district, for KRW 292.7 billion ($211 million).

EQT Real Estate Industrial Value Fund V, managed by EQT, has completed the sale of a 46-building logistics portfolio totaling approximately 10.5 million square feet across the Southeast United States to an affiliate of California-based LBA Realty.

Velocity Financial has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the operating platform of Toorak Capital.

 Dealpath has released findings from a new survey of institutional commercial real estate (CRE) investors on the impact of AI on investment decisions.

NIC MAP has released its updated “Senior Housing Market Outlook”, revealing that the nation’s 80-plus population is entering a period of historic growth just as senior housing communities are filling up and new construction remains near historically low levels. The result has created one of the largest long-term investment opportunities in commercial real estate.

Brookfield has acquired a new multiunit logistics development within the Nepean Business Park in Penrith, Western Sydney.

A powerful surge in credit-market liquidity is reviving global commercial real estate transactions.

Greystar has acquired a 265-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) property called Copley Court in Cork from Elkstone Real Estate, further expanding its Irish PBSA portfolio.

Rockpoint and Holland Partner Group, a fully integrated real estate investment company, have entered into a joint venture to develop Stevens Creek, .

LaSalle Investment Management has recapitalized an equity stake in CityWest.

To an American investor, the Canadian mortgage market looks familiar enough to ignore and distinctive enough to reward a closer look. So why is it consistently overlooked? Canada and the United States share a common language (mostly), legal traditions, and appetite for homeownership, yet Canada has built a residential credit system that behaves in almost the opposite way to the one south of the border.

Japan Excellent, a Tokyo-listed REIT, plans to sell three properties for a combined JPY 15.6 billion ($98 million) as part of its portfolio recycling strategy.

Hines has released research that identified the six U.S. cities among the highest-scoring in Hines’ analysis positioned to capture a potential tidal wave of investment, as an estimated $1 trillion in advanced manufacturing construction reshapes demand for industrial space over the remainder of the decade.

Tokyo-listed real estate developer Kasumigaseki Capital has acquired a hotel development site in Las Vegas through its U.S. subsidiary and launched a project targeting a spring 2030 opening.

Estimated preleasing at the Yardi 200 schools reached 89.1 percent in July 2026, 100 basis points above final occupancy data compiled in July 2025. Year-over-year rent growth totaled 2 percent in July, according to new data from Yardi Matrix.

The U.S. retail market is showing signs of renewed momentum, and enclosed malls are beginning to re-enter the investment conversation. Larger-format retailers that historically favored standalone or power-center locations, including IKEA and Target, are increasingly considering enclosed mall locations, a shift that could signal stronger confidence in traffic, demographics and the long-term durability of the format. At the same time, improving operating performance, limited new supply and more favorable debt markets are beginning to change the risk-return profile of quality malls. In an IREI interview, David Monahan, senior managing director in JLL Capital Markets’ New York office, discusses why he believes the mall recovery is sustainable, what is drawing retailers back to enclosed locations, and whether institutional capital could be next to return to the sector.

In a sponsored report published in the September issue of Institutional Real Estate Europe, Affinius Capital describes the factors contributing to the widening performance gap between modern, high-specification facilities that are in great demand, and older logistics stock, highlighting the implications of that shift for investment strategy within the logistics sector.

In a sponsored interview published in the September issues of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific and Institutional Real Estate Americas, Principal Asset Management’s Kevin Yam, managing director, portfolio management, and Jim Halliwell, managing director, head of housing and alternatives, discuss the evolution of the U.S. housing market, the long-term drivers of rentership, and why Principal believes today’s environment presents a compelling opportunity for a diversified living strategy.

In a sponsored supplement that accompanied the September issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Epic Advisory’s Suzanne West, founder and president, and Brandy Corcoran Carlson, partner, along with ENSO Advisor’s founder and CEO, Monica O’Neill, spoke about fiduciary culture, the realities of raising institutional capital and what separates a deal sponsor from an institutional-quality platform. “A manager usually gets one chance to make a first impression,” explains West in the interview. “If the story, structure or operating model is not ready, meaningful engagement is nearly impossible.”

In a sponsored interview published in the September issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific, Marcus Meijer, CEO and founder of MARK Capital Management and chairman of Crossbay, explains how MARK is scaling their pan-European urban logistics portfolio, underscoring the irreplicable quality of logistics assets located in dense, historical European metropolitan areas, and describing how Crossbay’s localised networks allow them to source those ownership-fragmented assets on an off-market, bilateral basis.