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Mesa West Capital has provided a joint venture between Interstate Equities Corporation and PGIM, the global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc., with a $201.5 million loan package for the acquisition of four multifamily properties totaling 574 units in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area markets of Mountain View, Redwood City and Sunnyvale, Calif.

As the strategy of acquiring minority ownership stakes in alternative asset management firms, known as GP Stakes, continues to gain traction, a new industry forum is emerging to examine its growing influence. On April 21, industry participants will gather in Midtown Manhattan for the first-ever conference dedicated exclusively to general partner (GP) Stakes and GP ownership, an increasingly important segment of the Alternatives ecosystem. The event is being organized by Maxwell Greenstein, founder of GP Stakes News, a media and talent platform focused on the GP Stakes market.

EQT, a global investment organization with €267 billion ($313 billion) in assets under management, has agreed to acquire Coller Capital.

Principal Asset Management has acquired a logistics asset in Seville, Spain, in a sale-leaseback transaction for LOG IN, the European logistics and industrial fund managed by Theoreim.

Axis Partners in partnership with Sweetwater Holdings, announced the $111 million sale of an 85-acre portfolio comprised of 22 industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facilities located primarily throughout the Sunbelt region of the United States.

INREV has released the second edition of its recently launched ODCE Flash Report, available only 15 days after quarter end. The one-year rolling return provides an early snapshot of performance for the calendar year 2025 across ODCE funds. 

Long Harbour has secured a new debt facility with Barclays to support the expansion of its single-family housing fund (LHSFF).

Turner & Townsend, the global professional services company, has been appointed by Shell Real Estate as its sole global provider of program management office (PMO), project management and cost and commercial management services for the next five years.

Asia Pacific’s office market is showing clear signs of stabilization after two years of rental declines. Regional rents fell 0.2 percent year-on-year in 2025, compared with a 1.6 percent drop in 2024. Knight Frank’s Fourth Quarter 2025 Office Highlights also show a 0.7 percent quarter-on-quarter rise in prime rents, the strongest increase in more than three years, led by strong momentum in India’s major markets. 

Rising demand for AI and high-performance computing is reshaping cloud competition, data-center design, and capital allocation, increasing the importance of purpose-built infrastructure, execution speed, and aligned partnerships. In a discussion with IREI, Jared Sheiker, chief of staff for the real assets platform at Blue Owl Capital, and Julia Robin, vice president of networking and data center capacity management at Oracle, addressed how considerations such as power availability, water use, workforce development, and sustainability are influencing development decisions, alongside a shift toward disciplined, demand-driven growth.

Affinius Capital has held a first close for its first formal commingled hyperscale data center–focused fund, raising $630 million.

Arselle Investments (Arselle) and Amoroso Cos. (Amoroso) have announced formation of a multifamily platform to acquire up to $500 million of multifamily properties located across major Western U.S. markets during the next two to three years.

Newmark Group has represented GO Residential Real Estate Investment Trust (GO REIT) in the sale of a significant stake in 265 E. 66th St., a luxury high-rise multifamily property located in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Singapore-based real estate investment manager SC Capital Partners Group has secured a new capital commitment from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) for its Japan hospitality strategy.

Partners Group has launched a special opportunities strategy, establishing a dedicated team and adding the program alongside its existing private equity, infrastructure, private credit, real estate, and royalties platforms.

Zenzic Capital and Jensco Group have formed a joint venture to invest in purpose-built single-family (SFH) homes across the United Kingdom and have forward funded an initial 125 homes from leading housebuilder Vistry.

Swiss Life Asset Managers has acquired a modern, well-located warehouse unit in Avonmouth. This deal marks Swiss Life Asset Managers’ first U.K. acquisition on behalf of its pan-European industrial and logistics fund.

AEW has named Anthony Butler to the newly created role of head of industrial and logistics Europe, effective March 2026.

DWS has appointed Lucy Williams as head of client coverage for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) real estate, strengthening the firm’s global real estate platform and further advancing its client engagement and capital raising strategy across the region.

Crow Holdings has announced a 245-megawatt turnkey data center campus on a highly connected, strategically located urban infill site in central Dallas.