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KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, has achieved a NOK $7.2 billion ($811 million) return for the first half of the year.

Cedar Street Companies, a vertically integrated real estate investment, development and management platform, and private equity real estate investment manager Quartz Lake Capital have formed a strategic joint venture to invest in infill multifamily development opportunities.

New World China Land has successfully secured an important old city redevelopment project for Nanji Village, in Guangzhou’s Haizhu District.

David “Mac” McWhorter, executer director at iREOC, with Nick Russell, head of investor account management at Juniper Square, hosted the webinar “The Future of Institutional Reporting” on Aug. 19.

Rewind nine years. The 2012 Montague Report is commissioned by the U.K. government to review institutional investment into the build-to-rent (BTR) or private rental sector (PRS) and find out why investors remain wary.

AIA Group has formed a strategic partnership with GLP to invest in the global logistics real estate industry and related opportunities.

Direct real estate offers a superior hedge to inflation, compared with REITs, stocks, bonds and some alternative investments, while still delivering strong returns, according to a sponsored report titled Direct real estate and inflation by Jay Johnston, senior associate, research, of USAA Real Estate.

Institutional investors are asking more from their managers in terms of ESG — not just whether they have an ESG policy, but how it is being implemented and measured, throughout the portfolio.

In the United States, alternative assets accounted for more than 43 percent of the real estate invested stock in 2020. European institutional real estate portfolios are heading the same direction, becoming more diversified with the addition of alternatives, such as cell towers, data centers, healthcare and alternative living.

With negative- and low-interest rates around the world and the influx of central-bank capital flowing into the marketplace as a response to the pandemic, investing in real estate debt may be more compelling for a short-term investor, while equity might be the better choice for investors with a 10- to 15-year investment horizon.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way — and the where — people work, causing some consternation about the future of office sector investments.

Fleet-of-foot alternative lenders have morphed into decisive players in the real estate financing market, says co-managing director of LINUS Capital, a LINUS Digital Finance company, Lukas Endl. There can be little doubt now that the COVID

Open-ended fund structures must align to asset liquidity profiles in the UK market, writes James Wallace.

There is no doubt that, while 2020 was a washout for most of us, the forced change in consumer habits was hugely beneficial to data centre operators.

Whether it be in a reconfigured air-raid shelter 33 metres below the ground in south London, in a converted office building in Singapore, or in a building in Dubai — startups around the world are now growing closely-stacked racks of vegetables under LED lights, in a bid to bring consumers fresher produce with a lower carbon footprint than generally available at their supermarket.

Ivanhoé Cambridge will transition the operations of its Canadian shopping centers over to JLL.

Rexford Industrial Realty has acquired two industrial properties.

The Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) of Texas has disclosed a new commitment to a private real estate fund.

Sun Hung Kai Properties has won approval from Hong Kong’s Town Planning Board for the construction of two towers atop West Kowloon station.

Oak Hill Advisors (OHA), a leading alternative investment firm with more than $50 billion in assets, has led a $326.5 million investment in Workspace Property Trust.