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The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has committed $288 million total to four real estate funds: WESCO V, Berkshire Bridge Loan Investors III, 1547 Data Center Fund III and Bridge Logistics Value Fund II, according to meeting materials.

Fergal Harris has joined Affinius Capital as managing director in the firm’s global investors group.

CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) has acquired a freehold land parcel in Osaka to develop its first data center in Japan

CenterSquare Investment Management has created a commercial real estate debt co-investment vehicle alongside Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. Once fully funded, the vehicle will have $200 million to deploy and will invest in high-quality subordinate real estate loans. 

AEW has acquired a class A last mile light industrial asset in Lesquin, near Lille in France, on behalf of its urban light industrial platform, ULLIS .

Tioga Capital has closed its fourth fund, Tioga Partners IV, raising approximately $125 million in total capital commitments.

GTIS Partners and Hopewell Development have sold Champions Circle Business Park, a premier class A industrial development located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area.

Forum Partners and one of its portfolio companies, Pocket Storage, recently completed a round of fundraising for the development of a self-storage platform that will deliver secure, convenient and fully automated self-storage facilities in ultra-urban markets in the United Kingdom.

Breakthrough Properties has acquired MUSE, a three-building trophy life science campus in the Torrey Pines submarket of San Diego.

Heitman has held a close for its Heitman Real Estate Debt Partners III fund (HDP III) at $806 million in capital commitments, exceeding its $600 million fundraising goal. The fund will aim to provide creative financing solutions to high-quality sponsors executing real estate projects in traditional and alternative property sectors.

A limited competition dynamic and the superior credit profile of new loans in today’s market make now a great time to invest in real estate debt.

Aging population is one of the significant demographic shifts that will affect the U.S. economy and drive the long-term performance of real estate investment.

As real estate enters the recovery stage of the market correction that began in 2022, its features that have long attracted institutional capital — predictable income, return potential, portfolio diversification — are still delivering.

Investment capital is catching up to the popularity of alternative residential and medical office sectors.

As investors increasingly turn their gaze toward digital infrastructure and AI, the overarching themes of geopolitical conflicts and climate change color the investment decision.

Reliable income potential and the possibility of an opportunistic return can be hard to find in a single institutional-grade real estate investment.

Today’s real estate market is ripe for redevelopment or repositioning of distressed or obsolete assets, explain co-CEOs of Argosy Real Estate Partners, David Butler and Andy Stewart.

A new economy is emerging in India that will need support from the industrial and logistics real estate sectors.

Legal & General today announced that it has raised £510 million (€614 million/$630 million) for its affordable housing investment strategy as part of the second close of its Affordable Housing Fund.

Invesco Real Estate has sold the Skålen 30 prime office asset in Stockholm’s Hagastaden submarket to Humlegården Fastigheter AB.