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CBRE Investment Management, on behalf of a fund sponsored by the firm, has completed the acquisition of a newly built residential asset in Ishøj, Greater Copenhagen, supporting the strategy’s objective of delivering high-quality, affordable and sustainable rental housing for middle-income households in Europe’s major metropolitan regions.

Griffin Capital Partners and PRIMESTAR Group have launched Prime Griffin Hotels, a 50-50 joint venture established to build one of Poland’s leading hotel platforms.

Barings, on behalf of a European value-add real estate strategy, has acquired a project for 243 residential units in Tumba, on the outskirts of Stockholm, with Innovation Properties as the residential developer.

Principal Asset Management has acquired three multifamily residential buildings in Queen’s Park, northwest London, from Vistry.

Royal London Asset Management has committed £35 million ($46 million) to forward-fund two purpose-built senior care homes in southeast England.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape how institutional single-family rental (SFR) operators manage dispersed portfolios, where homes vary by market, age, condition and regulatory requirements. Evergreen Residential partnered with Ender, an AI-native real estate software company, to support the operational and financial workflows specific to SFR portfolios. Ender unifies operational and financial data in a single system rather than reconciling across separate platforms.

Perhaps location is overrated. The increasing demand for operational real estate suggests that the company running an operating business is an increasingly important consideration, beyond where a property asset is, who the tenants are and what condition it is in.

Nearly every Asia Pacific enterprise and institutional property owner has pondered the world of rising trade barriers and, as 2026 unfolds, will now negotiate the additional hurdle of rising energy prices and interest rates.

In a sponsored interview published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Hans Nordby, executive managing director of research and investment analytics, and Gary Jaye, chief investment officer of Transwestern investments, discuss the strategic implications of the “K-shaped economy,” pointing to the surprising resilience and NOI outperformance demonstrated by high-quality retail and office properties in prime locations during cycles that were expected to devastate those sectors, and describing how similar dynamics are playing out in industrial, multifamily, retail, and office.

In a sponsored report published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Donald Hall, global head of research at Nuveen, describes the profound demographic shift that is driving demand and informing projections of outperformance in senior housing, explaining how investors can best position themselves to capitalize on the emerging opportunity.

In a sponsored report published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, UBS Asset Management’s chief investment officer Larissa Belova, and research economist Frances Osei-Bonsu explain the key provisions of the “21st Century ROAD to Housing Act,” its potential impacts, and the strategic implications it will have for institutional single-family rental and apartment sector investors.

In a sponsored interview published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Ailey Roberts, principal, global head of sustainable investing at BGO, explains how the firm’s approach to sustainability is tailored to match client risk and return expectations throughout the investment cycle, the benefits of regional expertise within a global framework, and how success requires fostering well-aligned, trusting relationships with both clients and internal stakeholders.

In a sponsored interview published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Kayne Anderson’s Kyle Mayes, senior managing director, fund management, core real estate, discussed the long-term, resilient demand that accounts for the growing interest in alternative sectors, how their outperformance has occasioned a rethinking of the role they can play in the core real estate market, and how a subsector approach and operational expertise can generate stable returns.

In a sponsored Q&A published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Ronald E. Silva, CEO, and Anthony J. Varone, senior vice president of capital markets and strategy, along with Wesley Rogers, CEO and president of Brickyard Healthcare, and Dr. Alan Wang, CEO and chief medical officer at Salude, talked about Fillmore's history as a healthcare investor, the operating platforms behind that experience, and the strategy now taking shape in Fillmore Healthcare Opportunities.

Private credit real estate funds face a challenging environment in 2026 as higher interest rates, inflation, weaker valuations and recession concerns weigh on commercial real estate markets. Despite those pressures, industry participants and the Federal Reserve generally view risks in the private credit property sector as manageable, with redemption requests remaining under control.

Writing in the parcel locker provider’s 2025 yearly results report in March, Brzoska highlighted the Polish company’s record delivery volumes, which saw it handle 1.4 billion parcels, a 25 percent year-over-year increase. In the euro zone, wrote Brzoska, InPost had scaled rapidly, with lockers becoming a mainstream delivery choice and Mondial Relay — which InPost bought in 2021 — strengthening its position as a trusted European brand. In the United Kingdom, following the integration of Yodel, InPost was also investing to build scale, he revealed. “As we enter the next chapter, we remain focused on shifting European ecommerce to out-of-home, unlocking operational synergies across our platform and continuing to invest significantly to support our long-term growth,” he added.

The European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) was introduced in 2021 with an ambitious objective: improve transparency, reduce greenwashing and direct more capital towards sustainable investment. In real estate, however, the framework has often generated as many questions as answers.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more accepted across commercial real estate, the conversation is shifting from whether firms will adopt the technology to how they will use it to improve operations, decision-making and investment performance. David Stifter, the CEO of PredictAP, discusses how AI is being applied to some of commercial real estate’s most detailed back-office functions, including invoice coding, accounting workflows and expense management. He addresses why real estate has historically been slower to adopt broad technology tools, why AI may be different, and where purpose-built platforms can help firms manage highly specific, property-level knowledge. Stifter also discusses the balance between automation and human oversight, the limits of AI accuracy, growing fraud risks tied to generative AI, and how better data can help firms identify operational risks, uncover hidden inefficiencies and spot opportunities sooner.

A record 25.2 million adults under 35 lived with their parents in 2025, surpassing even the pandemic peak, as housing costs continue to price young adults out of independent living, according to a new Realtor.com report. One in three adults under 35 now shares a home with a parent, a rate that has held near its 2020 record high with little sign of easing.

Cushman & Wakefield has released its 2026 Vital Signs report today, signaling continued strength across the medical outpatient sector driven by surging healthcare demand, an aging population and an ongoing shift toward outpatient care.