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An affiliate of Walton Street Capital and SteelWave have acquired 1450 Sherwin Ave.,

Based on an advance estimate, Singapore’s GDP growth continued to improve in the fourth quarter 2020, bringing 2020 growth to –5.8 percent, slightly better than a previous estimate of –6 percent.

Barings has acquired, off-market, a plot of land in South Verona, Italy, via an Italian real estate fund managed by Kryalos SGR.

Hines Global Income Trust has acquired Cross Point Business Park, an industrial warehouse in the West Midlands.

Bascom Group has partnered with Capital Trust Group to acquire a class A, 372,856-square-foot, cutting-edge, absolute net-lease build-to-suit research and development.

Heitman Real Estate Debt Partners II, a closed-end debt fund managed by Heitman, has collected $300 million in a first close.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes in the commercial real estate industry in 2020 and 2021.

One of the big questions for investors is how much discretion to give the manager of a separate account.

5G will transform urban property for the better, says Richard Kingston, professor of urban planning and Geographical Information Science (GISc) at the University of Manchester.

What are the top 10 real estate questions for 2021?

2021 is set to be a year of slow accumulating sub- and nonperforming loans (NPL). The depth of impending loan defaults and insolvencies across Europe will be decided by the fate of government support schemes and insolvency law moratoria, which will come under huge pressure.

2020 will be remembered as the year of COVID-19. The pandemic unleashed a wide range of local responses throughout the year, as well as a global reversal of market sentiment.

The national vacancy rate for the affordable housing sector, which is comprised of Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) markets, remained flat in the third quarter.

The national rent index fell by 0.4 percent from November to December, according to the Apartment List National Rent Report of 2021. For comparison, month-over-month declines in prior Decembers were 0.2 percent in 2019, 0.2 percent in 2018, and 0.3 percent in 2017.